Brian Muhumuza

Brian Muhumuza

Brian has been an addictions counsellor at Changes secondary facility River Manor since 2019.

Brian supports clients through assessments, creating treatment plans, identifying achievable goals, skills development, improving employability, running group and individual therapy, writing reports to the courts as well as meeting with families and providing them with guidance.

Previously he spent three years as a counsellor and house manager for another Johannesburg-based rehabilitation centre.

He has worked in Botswana helping addicts find help and support on a part-time basis while he worked as a Managing Editor for a local magazine. Brian also held the Managing Editor title at a newspaper in South Sudan for almost three years.

He qualified with an honour’s degree in journalism and mass communication in his home country Uganda. His strengths include excellent communication skills, genuine compassion for others, resilience, patience and humility.

Brian has been in stable recovery from active addiction for six years.

Changes Addiction Rehab professional memberships and accreditations

Changes Addiction Rehab is licensed by the South African Department of Social Development (Practice No. 0470000537861) and the Department of Health, and is a registered detox facility and practice with the Board of Healthcare Funders. Our treatment programme is led by counsellors registered with the HPCSA, working alongside a multidisciplinary team of medical professionals under a unified practice. We are proud, standing members of the International Certification & Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC), the Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, the South African Council for Social Service Professions, the South African Medical Association, the South African Nursing Council and the South African Society of Psychiatrists. Changes Addiction Rehab has been in continuous professional operation since 2007, when it was founded by Sheryl Rahme, who has worked in the addiction treatment field since 1984. Our core clinical team brings over 100 years of combined professional addiction recovery experience.