Our Story
Built by people who understand — from every angle
Juliet Mureithi
Co-Founder & Managing Director
MSc Organisational Psychology · BSc Community Psychology, Makerere University · Certified Addiction Professional · ISSUP Member
Juliet is an Organisational Psychologist and certified addiction professional who saw a critical gap in accessible, high-quality mental health services across the region. She brought together a team of specialists — drawing on her experience at a leading mental health centre in Nairobi and her work with a non-profit focused on substance abuse recovery — to build a place where care is delivered with expertise, empathy and dignity.
Organisational psychology · Addiction medicine · East African clinical background
Mwebaze Isharaza ("Isha")
Co-Founder & Programme Director
Certified Addiction Care & Treatment Specialist · ICAP II · Compassionate Inquiry · Recovery Coach · NAADAC Member · ISSUP Member · Chairman, APRAU
Certified Addiction Professional · 15+ years in recovery · Chairman APRAU
A certified addiction professional with over 15 years in long-term personal recovery, Isha leads ARC’s programmes with both clinical rigour and lived wisdom. He shapes every aspect of care around one question: what is the root of the addiction? pain causing the suffering? How can we ease the burden?
“Treatment delivered not only with clinical rigour, but with the authentic understanding of what recovery truly requires. — The founding vision of Africa Retreat Centre”