The idea of Relate began 30 years ago with David Zac and Theodora Niringiye, offering guidance to individuals and couples in their home. This grew into counselling and speaking work, and in 1999, together with friends, they launched Relate Magazine to share life stories for learning.
Since then, Relate has hosted seminars on topics like courtship, marriage, and family. Today, we are a trusted counselling practice dedicated to emotional well-being and fulfilling relationships, driven by the belief that living is loving.
Meet Our Team
We are a team of highly qualified and experienced therapists committed to providing personalised and compassionate care. Our focus is on creating a safe and supportive environment where clients can explore their challenges, develop coping skills and achieve their personal goals.
Theodora Niringiye
Marriage and Family Therapist
Theodora is a compassionate therapist focused on empowering individuals, couples, and families to prepare adequately for life’s milestones and navigate life’s challenging situations. As a relationship, marriage and family therapist, Theodora’s expertise includes investigating relationship principles to support clients in enhancing personal growth, marriage and family life.
She is committed to working with individuals, couples, parents, families, groups and organisations to unlock their potential, build strong relationships and live more meaningful lives. Theodora has decades of experience leading clients through premarital counseling, family therapy, offering mental health support, guidance in parenting and adolescent issues and support through grief and trauma.
Theodora is married, mother of three and grandmother of eight.
Availability – In person and Online.
Harriet Opondo
Child and Adolescent Therapist
Harriet holds a PhD in Counseling and specializes in counseling children, adolescents, parents, adults, groups, and families presenting with various challenges and mental health concerns.
Hattie has worked with clients in the United States and Uganda and has experience dealing with cross-cultural situations. She will provide support for clients dealing with anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, child-parent relationship challenges, impact of medical conditions on emotional wellbeing, adoption/foster placement concerns, and challenges within social relationships.
Availability – In person and Online
Rev. Dismas Bwesigye
Trauma, Alcohol and Drug Addiction
Dismas is an EMDR Psychotherapist and consultant. He specializes in helping people struggling with traumatic episodes in their lives; addictions, suicidal tendencies; and impulse control difficulties and youth with adjustment issues. He handles individuals, groups and organizations.
Dismas served as chaplain at Uganda National Mental Referral Hospital Butabika for 14 years. He is married and a father of two.
Availability – In person and Online
Dr. June Businge
Mental Health Therapist
June is a medical doctor and a trained counselor offering individual and group counseling services. She is available to offer school sessions. June specializes in adolescent issues, mental health, school and career guidance and dealing with addictions.
June is mother to an adult son.
Availability – In person and Online
Livia Muhimbise Niyo
Pastoral Counsellor
As a trained theologian and Pastoral Counselor Livia specializes in supporting clients handling grief and loss; relationship issues; anxiety and depression; transitions and decision making; faith issues and spiritual struggles and ethical dilemmas.
Livia has had the privilege of working with people from diverse cultural and racial backgrounds. She offers personalized care and guidance with respect to one’s spiritual beliefs and values.
Livia is married and a mother to three.
Availability – Online
Our dedicated Board of Directors are a team of experienced professionals passionate about guiding our mission to support emotional well-being and meaningful relationships. These are:
Dr. David Zak Niringiye – Board Chair
Titus Bitebekezi – Company Secretary
Patricia Rutiba – Board Member
Aryatungyisa Otiti – Board Member
Relate Counseling and Relate Connect are divisions of Relate Communications LTD
54 Ntinda Road,
Kampala, Uganda
Monday – Friday
8AM – 6PM
By appointment only
+256 772 653 976
Relate Counseling and Relate Connect are divisions of Relate Communications LTD