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Psychology has been a life-long passion for me. I expressed my initial interest in mental health at the tender age 11, declaring in a school yearbook that I would like to be a \u2018psychiatrist\u2019. This converted some years later into \u2018psychologist\u2019 as I got to learn the difference between the two. What led me down this path is a combination of a deep need to understand and improve human suffering and an insatiable curiosity regarding the human mind. It has been a path of ever-increasing growth, insight and awareness. I view psychotherapy as a process of awakening one\u2019s authenticity and spontaneity, through the release of patterns imposed on us by life\u2019s setbacks. I aim to co-create with clients a sacred space of safety and understanding where transformation can be nurtured.<\/p>\n
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My journey began at the University of Johannesburg (previously Rand Afrikaans University), where I completed all my psychology studies. I obtained a cum laude for both Honours and Masters. I was a member of the Golden Key International Society, a society honouring academic excellence. My training at the University of Johannesburg took an integrative approach.<\/p>\n
During my Honours year, I volunteered at a mental health half-way house \u2013 Viva College working with teenagers and young adults. I also volunteered briefly at SADAG and LifeLine. I then detoured for a few years to study a BCom Honours and spent some time in the corporate world returning to my first passion soon after.<\/p>\n
During my Clinical Psychology Masters, I gained group and individual psychotherapy experience at Helen Joseph Hospital. I completed my internship at both Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital and Tara H. Moross Institute. At Weskoppies I worked in the acute psychotic and mood disorders, personality disorders, and forensic wards. Additionally, I gained experience in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), substance abuse and family therapy.<\/p>\n
At Tara H. Moross Institute I gained experience in the DBT program in ward 4 and 5, as well as in the neuropsychology unit.<\/p>\n
I went on to work at the Gauteng Metro Community Clinics in the wider Johannesburg area, where I conducted individual, couple and group psychotherapy on a wide-range of diagnoses, including trauma, bereavement\/grief, personality disorders, panic attacks, anxiety disorders, phobias, depression, bipolar disorder, and various medical disorders, amongst others. I also conducted play therapy with children of various ages. Through my experience here, I continued with supervision and training in both the psychodynamic and somatic psychotherapy paradigms.<\/p>\n
I was then based at Crescent Clinic Cape Town working with a wide range of conditions \u2013 both medical and psychological. I now run an independent practice.<\/p>\n
I have trained in various modalities: BWRT, EMDR, CBT, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Eriksonian Hypnotherapy, Ego State Therapy, Schema Therapy, Spontaneous Healing Intrasystemic Process (SHIP), relational psychodynamic, Jungian psychotherapy, Enneagram, parts therapy (IFS & Ego state therapy), various somatic methods, amongst others. I believe that a therapist\u2019s job entails never-ending self-development and so I continue training and personally partaking in a variety of psychological and other healing methods. I am also a qualified yoga instructor (300 hours).<\/p>\n
I have completed a PhD on ayahuasca use for trauma.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I am registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa\u00a0(HPCSA) and the Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF).<\/p>\n
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