You probably found your way to this website as part of your
search for a psychologist.
Selecting a therapist is a highly personal matter and
finding the “right” therapist and then starting therapy is
often anxiety provoking. Although my website can’t answer
all the questions you may have, I hope it will tell you a
little about how I understand my work as a therapist.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any further
queries about therapy in general, or about the therapeutic
services that I offer.
I am registered with the Health Professionals Council of
South Africa (HPCSA) as a clinical psychologist. I offer
both brief (supportive) and long term psychodynamically
oriented psychotherapy to older teenagers (16 years and
over) and adults.
(What is
psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy?).
Psychotherapy is a process that can be very helpful in
dealing with a range of conditions including anxiety,
depression, mood swings, eating disorders, self harm, and
obsessive and compulsive behaviour as well as understanding
very personal sources of distress and angst in an
individual’s life.
However it is not limited to these and can also be
helpful in exploring relationship difficulties, both with
others and with yourself, addressing self-esteem issues and
developing increased self insight.
My work ranges from assisting people with managing
everyday anxiety and stress, to those facing a sudden
crisis, through to assisting those struggling with
psychological difficulties of a more serious nature.
Often as we grow up we adopt ways of managing difficult
circumstances which, although they served us as children,
are no longer helpful now, interfering with our adult lives
and preventing us from being relatively content.
Generally my aim in my work with clients is to explore
the internal conflicts, past traumas and unhelpful coping
strategies which hamper an individual in fully understanding
and appropriately meeting their personal wants and needs at
this point in their life, in attaining a sense of personal
well being, as well as achieving satisfying relationships
with self and others.
I also strive to identify those capable and competent
parts of the individual and to enlist these in aiding the
patient move towards the kind of life they wish for.Psychological health and happiness is more than the
absence of unhelpful symptoms – it is the ability to call
upon inner capacities and resources that assist an
individual to find a greater sense of freedom and
possibility in the life.
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