about me

In my private counselling practice, 
my safe haven, we can work through your fears and questions, the judgemental self-talk, the values that stop us from feeling safe or taking time to look after ourselves and heal. 
That’s what I’m here for.

Since 2012, I have been counselling individuals, couples and groups for the St John’s Catholic Church Counselling centre on issues ranging from relationship struggles to emotional abuse and bereavement. I ran an Anxiety and Depression group with SADAG facilitators for three years and worked with PTSD and anger-management in groups and in my practice. I worked with St John’s facilitators in bereavement and divorce therapy groups. 

I spent 30 years working in various positions in the television industry, and returned to University at the age of 43 to qualify as a social worker because I felt a real need to help people deal with day-to-day stresses. 

As a mature student I mentored younger learners and I know the challenges faced by students and their support networks in today’s South African climate. I love my own son very much and I want him to grow up in a society where help and support are available through every stage of his education.

During the COVID pandemic, I did research for Community Radio on isolation and coping skills and presented an Anxiety Workshop for Trinity Methodist Church.  I presented Covid fatigue research for company colloquiums and began employee assistance counselling.

 

Education: 

Wits: 1988 – 1990; Bachelor of Arts Majoring in English and Psychology

UNISA: 2012 – 2018; Psychology III, Research in the Social Sciences and Social Work Honours  

 

Courses:

 

    • Basic Counselling: Family Life
    • Marriage preparedness: Family Life
    • 7 Habits of Highly effective people
    • Pre-Natal depression: Akeso Crescent Clinic
    • Relationship Counselling: Dr Jane Newcombe
    • Bereavement Counselling: Nelia Drenth
    • Solutions focused therapy with clients managing trauma: Dr Jacqui von Cziffra-Bergs; Vista clinic
    • Solutions Focused Brief Therapy: Luce Pretorius
    • International Play Therapy tools
    • Psychology Ethics: Dr Elaine Bing; Vista Clinic
    • Mediation: From Theory to Practice: South African Association of Mediators
    • Statutory Work with Children
    • The new Gender-Based Violence Act and its effect on counselling
    • Mental health emergency
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My Mission

To help people deal with day-to-day stresses and create a society where help and support are available through every stage of education and life.

In line with the United Nations’s efforts to raise global awareness about mental health, South Africa has marked October as Mental Health Awareness Month, with many organisations working in the field offering information and counselling to people directly or indirectly affected by mental health issues.