Rofhiwa Machebe

Educational Psychologist

  • PhD in PsychologyUniversity of the Witwatersrand · in progress
  • MEd PsychologyUniversity of the Witwatersrand · 2025
  • BA Honours in PsychologyUniversity of South Africa · 2022
  • BA PsychologyUniversity of Johannesburg · 2021

Registration verified August 2026

HPCSA registration PS 0165921

About

Rofhiwa Machebe is a psychologist who believes that healing and growth begin in spaces where people feel truly seen, heard, and emotionally safe. With experience across school and private practice settings, she works with individuals across the lifespan, offering support through emotional, academic, behavioural, and life challenges with warmth, care, and compassion.

Rofhiwa provides psychotherapy, psycho-educational assessments, play therapy, medico-legal assessments, career assessments, and learning support services. Her therapeutic work is grounded in psychodynamic, person-centred, and relational approaches, allowing her to offer care that is emotionally attuned, thoughtful, and deeply supportive of each individual’s personal journey and wellbeing.

Areas of focus

  • Anxiety
  • Trauma and PTSD
  • Grief and bereavement
  • Learning difficulties
  • Neurodiversity
  • Relationship difficulties
  • Career and study choices
  • Life changes and adjustment
  • Parenting
  • Workplace difficulties

Services offered

  • Individual therapy
  • Psychoeducational assessments
  • Career assessments
  • Medico-legal assessments
  • Learning support

Assessments offered

  • Psychoeducational assessments
  • Career assessments

Who they work with

  • Primary school aged children
  • Adolescents
  • Adults
  • Families
  • Groups