Our Team
Our Team
Two decades of frontline experience, not a training exercise.
Safeways is led by a clinician who has spent her career in exactly the settings and with exactly the clients this centre exists to serve.
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Team Lead
Susan Mwende Mutegi
Kenya Registered Psychiatric Nurse · Addiction Science Specialist
Susan brings over two decades of frontline experience in psychiatric nursing, community health, and addiction science. She currently works as a psychiatric nurse at a national referral hospital while running a part-time addiction practice at a private rehabilitation centre — the same practice that has grown into Safeways.
She has worked in refugee camps, county hospitals, national referral facilities, and private practice, giving her both the clinical grounding and the community trust this work requires. Safeways is not a new direction for her career — it’s the natural next step in one she has spent 20+ years building.
Clinical background
Psychiatric Nursing
Kenya Registered Psychiatric Nurse (KMTC Mathare)
Community Health Nursing
Kenya Registered Community Health Nurse (KMTC Thika)
Addiction Specialisation
Addiction Science, KMTC Mathare (2025)
Clinical Postings
National referral hospital psychiatric wards, a private rehabilitation centre, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Garissa County Hospital, and the National Spinal Injury Hospital
Core competencies include standardised addiction assessment (AUDIT, DAST, CAGE), detoxification monitoring, individual and family therapy facilitation, trauma-informed care, Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) protocols, and community health worker training.
Where she’s worked
Referral hospital
Psychiatric nursing
Mental health assessment, medication management, crisis intervention, and individual/group therapy for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and substance use disorders.
Private practice
Addiction clinician
Client intake, detox monitoring, counselling, relapse prevention, and family therapy at a private rehabilitation centre.
Refugee & county care
High-resource-constraint settings
Midwifery and emergency obstetric care at Dadaab Refugee Camp; general nursing and multidisciplinary coordination at Garissa County Hospital.
Who joins next
As the residential programme comes online, Safeways will bring on a physician, additional psychiatric nurses, counsellors, and trained community health workers. This page will be updated as the team grows — reach out if you’d like to be part of it.