Services

Individual Psychotherapy

Clients are supported to gain relief from stressors arising from different life challenges, adjustment difficulties, major life changes; and a mental health diagnosis can be made where necessary.

Individual psychotherapy is indicated for, but not limited, to the following:

Depression

Recurrent Suicidal Thoughts

Bipolar Disorders

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Phobias

Generalised Anxiety

Psychosomatic Disorders/ Unexplained Physical Aliments

Panic Attacks/ Disorders

Trauma

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Sexual Disorders

Substance Use Disorders/ Drug Abuse

Personality Disturbances and Disorders

Self-harm Behavior

Grief and Bereavement

Stress

Anger Management

Self-Image

Existential challenges – General dissatisfaction with life, unexplained feelings of emptiness, chronic doubt regarding one’s existence, feeling dejected, a sense of lacking meaning and purpose.

Difficult parent – Child relationships.

Stress related to pregnancy and other reproductive health problems.

Post-partum depression.

Miscarriage – Spontaneous or induced.

Personal Growth – Support clients to stop self-sabotaging patterns and self-betrayal. I also help clients develop a healthy relationship with themselves and their bodies.

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is a multifaceted process that makes different emotional and cognitive demands on clients. Our practitioners adapt traditional Psychotherapy to a child’s developmental stage and make use of play in order to make the child more responsive to treatment and intervention. We employ Cognitive Behaviour Play Therapy (CBPT) when working with young children and younger adolescents. CBPT achieves the same goals as CBT when administered to adults; that is, there is still a positive and adaptive shift in underlying beliefs, behavioural changes and modifications as well as a healthy and stable emotional state.

Couples Therapy

There’s extensive evidence supporting the effectiveness of CBT for couples and psychological literature is rich in good treatment outcomes associated with Cognitive Behavioural Couples Therapy (CBCT). Couples who receive CBCT achieve relational wellbeing through, inter alia, skills development ( i.e communication training, problem & conflict resolution strategies), cognitive restructuring, behavioural changes, emotional expression, acceptance and tolerance. The therapist works with couples to collaboratively set treatment goals, structure therapy sessions and monitor progress.

Family Therapy

Families can and do experience stress. Different events, changes and situations can cause stress in the family. Co-dependency in families can have serious effects on the psychological functioning of its members. Severe conflict, structural breakdown and changes in the family life cycle, among others, can trigger problematic family functioning. A Structural Family Therapy (SFT) approach will be employed to help families make positive changes and enhance systemic functioning as well as contribute to the individual members’ psychological well-being.

Infertility Support

Dr Malema researched meaning and identity construction in South African women with primary infertility and her contributions revealed gaps in Psychological care for women and couples who navigate childlessness, complex and often emotionally strenuous fertility treatments and the burden of infertility on relationships. She offers support to couples and individuals with infertility-specific distress.

Health Psychology Interventions

The Health Psychology sub-discipline focuses on the relationship between Psychological Factors and physical health and wellbeing. A Psychologist working from this perspective examines health beliefs, predicts health related behaviours (i.e management of chronic illness, treatment compliance, lifestyle changes etc.) and works collaboratively to enhance recovery and quality of life for those diagnosed with and are adjusting to major illness.

Health Psychology interventions are often indicated for:
•Adjustment to and living with a major diagnosis (physical and/or mental illness)
•Illness behaviour and quality of life
•Living with chronic pain
•Weight management support
•And psychosomatic/ medically unexplained Symptoms

Research Consulting

Our research Consultants work on a project basis and accept short- to medium-term research projects – this will be determined in the first consultation meeting and measured based on the client’s objectives and needs. The initial one hour research consultation is billed at R 1 900.00, and from then onwards billing is bundled and applied per project.

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