DR TANYA ROBINSON - Sandton

Dr. Tanya Marie Robinson (Pr.0154326) is the director of the Family Therapy Assessment Centre, a private practice that has operated for the last ten years and focus specifically on assessments, evaluations and intervention. The following services are provided at the practice: General school and child assessments and specialised assessments, investigation of sexual crimes, structured play therapy workshops, couples intervention program, divorce guidance, forensic investigation, evaluating the best interest of the minor child according to the Children’s Act, custody (rights and responsibilities) and visitation (contact) evaluations, structuring of parenting plans, and mediation between parents. Tanya practiced as part of a multi-disciplinary team at Intercare Medical and Dental Centre  

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in Fourways but has built a more specialised practice and in currently based in Dainfern Valley. She frequently gives evidence in Court as an expert witness (Supreme Court, various regional and local Courts and Children’s Courts), and has served on panels convened by legal counsel. The main aim and objective within Robinson’s practice is to “give voice to the child” and to focus and promote the best interest of the child and to act on behalf of the child, not the parents, and to take “the child’s voice” to the parents or into court. Dr. Robinson is a registered member with the Board of Healthcare Funders, SACSSP, and SAASWIPP. She is a member of the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) based in Switzerland. The constitution of the IFSW provides that the aims shall be to promote social work as a profession through international co-operation, especially regarding professional values, standards, ethics, human rights, recognition, training and working conditions. Tanya belonged to other related social work, sociology, and academic boards in the past associated with academic institutions such as The University of Pretoria and Stellenbosch University.