Individuals Who Served as Tumaini Team Members in 2022

Collective of all Tumaini Counselling Centres Staff om  2022

 

 

The Tumaini Counselling Centre Team includes our Nairobi and Kampala professional clinicians and office support.   We are people from many different backgrounds, but with one aim: to serve God’s people working in Africa.

Tumaini Clinical Staff –  April 2023

The clinical staff at Tumaini are all professionally qualified, and accredited or licensed by their professional bodies.  In addition they are all missionaries themselves, so they know the joys and challenges of mission life from first-hand experience.

SOOHYUN KIM

MD
Volunteer Staff – Tumaini Nairobi
Tumaini Counselling Centre Clinical Team Leader

Soohyun is a General Psychiatrist who graduated from Yonsei University in South Korea.  She has also trained in missiological and cross-cultural work at All Nations Christian College in the UK, and has spent time in Tanzania.  Soohyun came with her family to join the Tumaini team in January 2014.
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Sarah Sandoz

LMSW
Volunteer Staff – Tumaini Nairobi
Tumaini Nairobi Lead Clinician

Sarah joined Tumaini staff in April 2022. She has a degree in clinical social work and has experience providing counselling across multiple cultures. She is passionate about supporting individuals who have experienced trauma as well as helping people build resilience on the mission field. Sarah and her family moved to Africa with SIM in 2017. They have been based in Nairobi, Kenya and have spent extensive time in South Sudan and other African countries. 

ALISON BOSSOM

MB BS, MRCGP London, DCH, DRCOG, DFRSH
Volunteer Staff – Tumaini Kampala

Dr Alison is a medical doctor from the UK who joined the Kampala office in January 2022. She worked as a family doctor in the UK for over 30 years. She and her husband Paul have 3 adult children and are working as missionaries with a number of Christian organisations in Kampala. They served in Zambia with AEF (now SIM) in a rural mission hospital for 1 year in 1990 and, after returning to the UK, Alison became the Medical Advisor to SIM UK. She has experience in treating medical and mental health problems in all age groups and has more recently trained in Christian counselling. She works both in–person and on-line, primarily with adults dealing with depression, anxiety and family problems and uses an integrative counselling approach.  Alison is available 2 days a week.

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Lydia Klassen

MA, LCPC
Volunteer Staff – Tumaini Nairobi

Lydia joined Tumaini in October 2022 as a licensed clinical professional counselor. She desires to come alongside missionaries who want to see God work through their brokenness. Lydia specializes in marital counseling (Emotionally Focused Therapy) and trauma care (EMDR trained), and she has experience serving interculturally. Whether she is working with an individual, couple, or family, Lydia strives to respond in a manner sensitive to the health of the relationships and community which the client is a part of.  She is available 4 days a week.

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“Lizzie”

LMSW  MBACP
Volunteer Staff – International

Lizzie joined Tumaini in 2022 after decades of living on French DOM-TOM’s, working in community and prison contexts with a focus on creativity, heritage, identity and healing. In UK from 2009 she trained in Creative Therapies while working with women with C-PTSD, then in educational, community and recovery contexts in the UK and overseas. Training further, she qualified in 2019 as a psychotherapist and counsellor (MBACP), working with addiction recovery and trafficking survivors. She likes to work collaboratively across a range of needs, offering counselling in English and French. She is available 2 days a week. She has 3 adult children.

Lizzie a intégré Tumaini en 2022 après avoir vécu des décennies dans les DOM-TOM français à travailler dans des contextes communautaires et carcéraux avec un l’accent grandissant sur la créativité, l’héritage culturelle, l’identité et la guérison. À partir de 2009, elle s’est formée au Royaume-Uni aux thérapies créatives tout en travaillant avec des femmes avec C-SSPT, puis dans des contextes éducatifs et associatifs au Royaume-Uni et à l’étranger. Allant plus loin dans sa formation, elle s’est qualifiée en 2019 en tant que psychothérapeute et conseillère (MBACP), travaillant avec ceux qui récupèrent de la dépendance et de l’esclavage moderne. Elle aime travailler de façon collaborative sur une gamme de besoins, offrant de la thérapie en anglais et en français. Elle est disponible 2 jours par semaine. Elle a 3 enfants adultes.

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INGRID TOFT

M.D.

Specialist in general Psychiatry. Basic psychotherapeutic degree in CBT.
Volunteer Staff – based in Sweden

Ingrid is a broadly experienced specialist in adult psychiatry. She joined the Tumaini team January 2023 and has received her Kenya medical license. She works as a volunteer on Mondays and Tuesdays with the Tumaini team and provides online psychiatric evaluations and treatment and medication follow-ups. Her volunteering at Tumaini is through the Swedish Evangelical Mission.

She lives with husband and their 3 children in Sweden. She currently works in a public health care team attending to diagnostics and treatment for people suffering from neurodevelopmental disorders.

In addition to Medicine and Psychiatry, Ingrid has studied theology and is familiar with several of the Church´s different traditions of spiritual direction. Through relationships with her chaplain husband, close friends and extended network serving in ministry and missions both in home countries and cross culturally in Scandinavia, the US and Africa, she is aware of and sensitized to the contexts, reasons for, and situations wherein psychological and psychiatric help may be both needed and beneficial to people living their lives in such circumstances.

JUDITH FINKBEINER

Chr. Psychology, Psychotherapy
Volunteer Staff – Tumaini Kampala
Home Assignment

Judith came to Kenya as an AIM counselor in 2008. She previously worked as a missionary nurse in Uganda and has a degree in Christian Psychology (IACP –Germany) and Psychotherapy (HPG). She specializes in areas of trauma, grief and loss, stress management and identity questions. She loves to walk alongside teeagers, adults, couples and leaders who are in cross-cultural settings and is passionate about creating safe spaces for them to be able to tell their stories. She is using an integrative approach in her counselling practice and is looking for HIM to show up.  She has served as the lead clinician of our Kampala office since its opening in 2016 and more recently as Tumaini’s Acting Clinical Team Leader. She starts a one year home assignment in September 2023.

ROGER BROWN

M.D.
Volunteer Staff – based in the US

Roger is a board certified general psychiatrist and is board-eligible in child and adolescent psychiatry.  Roger worked at Tumaini in Nairobi from 1991-2019.  He and his wife continue to serve with AIM but are now based in the US.  Roger presently provides administrative and clinician support for Tumaini and AIM.

MARY CAIRNS

M.D.
Volunteer Staff – based in the US

Mary is a board certified psychiatrist and family medicine physician. She, with her physician husband, were medical missionaries in Cameroon for two years prior to serving in Tumaini’s Nairobi location from 2021-2022. She, her husband Bryan, and two daughters, continue to serve based out of the U.S. Mary presently provides support in recruitment and administration for Tumaini.

DOREEN KIRAI

Support Staff – Tumaini Nairobi

Doreen is the AIM Care Administrative Manager. She has administration  oversight of AIM Care, our personnel management, and our financial records. Doreen liaises with the AIM Care  Clinical Team Leader.

LUCY KARANJA

Support Staff – Tumaini Nairobi

Lucy is our Nairobi Office  Administrator.  She ensures the smooth running of our Nairobi office by providing administrative support in both general administrative and clinical matters. Lucy also assists in the maintenance of the finance records of ouir Nairobi office.  

Josephine Nzova

Support Staff – Tumaini Nairobi

Josephine is the AIM Care Catress/Housekeeper.  She ensures that the office is clean and neatly arranged and prepares refreshement for our clients as well as the ABS offices at Tumaini.  In addition, Josephine plans and prepares meals for the Tumaini conference room guests.

FAITH AHUMUZA

Support Staff  – Tumaini Kampala

Faith is our Kampala Office Administrator.  She ensures the smooth runnning of our Kampala office by providing effective administrative support in both general administrative and clinical matters.  Faith also ensures that the financial records for that department are well maintained.

IMELDA NAKANYIKE

Support Staff  – Tumaini Kampala

Imelda is our Kampala Office Housekeeper. She ensures that the office is clean and neatly arranged, prepares refreshments for the clients, and covers the reception desk.