Dr Marelize Swart is a Registered Psychologist and Sex Therapist, with advanced training in sex therapy that she obtained in Canada and the USA. She earned her Masters Degree in Counselling Psychology at the University of Stellenbosch and her Doctoral Degree in Applied Psychology at the University of Calgary, Canada. She has recently moved back to Cape Town after living in North America for more than two decades.

Dr Swart brings with her more than 20 years of international experience in individual, couples and sex therapy and has been a sessional instructor to medical students and Masters degree students in Psychology in Sex Therapy while in Canada.

Dr Swart was for 4 years the resident Sexology expert for SA’s Health24’s Forum (Health24.com is South Africa’s premier health and wellness website, averaging over 1.2 million unique users from across the world each month. Of these, over 650 000 users are based in South Africa). She was also SA’s DRUM magazine’s Sexologist for the past few years (along with its sister magazines, Huisgenoot and YOU, DRUM magazine is currently one of the largest consumer magazines in South Africa with a total readership of three million and ninety thousand).

Dr Swart has been featured as the sex expert in various magazines and newspapers across Canada and South Africa. She has a private practice in Claremont and Somerset West in the Western Cape and she is fluent in English and Afrikaans. Her favourite quote is “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right” by Napoleon Hill. She is currently accepting new patients.