Kayla-Tess Pattenden is a child advocate, mother of 2, devoted Christian, and passionate South African. It is these factors combined which make Kayla-Tess an incredible social worker!

Kayla-Tess’s NPO background provides her with an array of experience with a diversity of people in the child protection, mediation, sex education, parenting, supervision and resilience fields. This has all contributed to the establishment of a professional and successful practice with clients celebrating their newfound resilience upon terminating their sessions.

Living by her motto, Kayla-Tess counsels herself ‘out of the job’, for it is only when a client can cope and thrive on their own that she has performed her duties well enough.

Her practice focus is families and couples, mediation, reports like care & contact and parenting plans as well as couples/intimacy and trauma debrief work.

Kayla-Tess also focuses on supervision and facilitates a group and individual supervision for Social Service Professionals in Cape Town through The Social Service Professionals Connect: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2342685695959312/

Her practice functions on a sliding scale offering persons quality mental health services at a personally affordable rate. Mental health is a right and this is practiced at The Connect Group.

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