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

Susan is a Kenya mental health consultant and addiction science expert.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.

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Training & credentials

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.

Clinical experience highlights

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.

Growing the team

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.