Janine Fourie Social Work
counselling
In my private counselling practice,
my safe haven, we can work through your fears and questions.
My Services
Couples Counselling
A couple is not a unit, it is often two individuals from different backgrounds, with different values and support bases sharing a space. Add financial worries, children, illness or infidelity to the mix and the foundation of any relationship will be rocked. Talking in a safe space to an unbiased, non-judgemental counsellor is the best way to find a holistic way to relate and remember where you want to be.
Grief Counselling
When we experience a loss, the world doesn’t stand still and sometimes we feel pressure to get over it and move on. Grief is processed in individual ways, even if others are experiencing the same gap in their lives. Whether you’re prepared or not, whether you’re experiencing the loss of a family member, a friend, a pet, a colleague, a dream or a way of life, you have the right to mourn, to talk, to be heard, to adapt in your own way and your own time.
Trauma Counselling
Trauma isn't immediate, adrenalin gets you through the moment and, if you're surrounded by experts and family members keeping you together, it can be days or even weeks before you realise you're locking the door too many times, watching your hands shake on the steering wheel at red robots or you're too tired to make supper and you can't pick a pair of shoes to wear to work. Everyone seems to have forgotten all about it, but you haven't. It's a process, and you don't have to do it alone. That's what I'm here for.
“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”
Baruch Spinoza
ABOUT ME
My ethos as a Social Worker starts with the question: ‘What would happen if…?’
If you came to therapy in slippers?
If you ordered takeaways because you were too tired to cook?
If you put the sheets on the bed without ironing them?
If you took leave just because you were tired?
If you never got over your loss?
If you never got used to being alone?
