HOLISTIC COUNSELLING
Holistic Counselling is a highly personalised approach that helps you, help yourself when you feel the need for support or assistance. The difference between Counselling and Holistic Counselling: Rather than treating just the symptoms, a holistic counsellor looks deeper and tries to uncover underlying causes.
HOW I WORK
I use the perspective that a client is a dynamic psychological-spiritual-physical-social living system. I honour the diversity of the human being and use an integrated approach within sessions. I will work with a variety of applicable modalities, coming alongside the client with compassion, non-judgment and open-mindedness. Together we work towards the client’s improved sense of well-being in work, personal or relational settings.
WELLNESS
Individual wellness and wellbeing i.e the quality of your day to day life. Wellbeing is the status of our existence as human beings and includes emotions, thoughts, environment, relationships, work fulfilment, stress management, sleep and all other things that contribute to health and happiness.
TRAUMA
People think if it's not big it's not trauma. If it distresses you and interferes with your wellbeing, there is a possibility of trauma. I have completed the advanced Eye Movement Integration (EMI) training a short term therapy that is very effective when working with the following conditions - crisis, grief, burn out, anxiety and triggers for substance abuse.
ADDICTION
Addiction is a symptom of an unhealthy relationship that you have with yourself. The substance is not the problem the person is. They think there is no choice left but to use - I can help them find their way back, they only need to want to try. Chemical Addictions - drugs and alcohol. Process Addictions - eating, gambling, sex, exercise and other compulsive, uncontrollable behaviours.
WHAT IS EMI?
EMI (Eye Movement Integration Therapy) is a short term therapeutic intervention. Clients may experience a shift within two to three sessions. Seen as a neuro-therapeutic modality, combined with psychotherapy, it is a therapeutic tool to help the brain change traumatic memory networks and heal itself.
Research has shown that our eye movements are connected to our memory networks. Through guided eye movements, we can also access these memory networks and reprocess them. Through the eyes, we thus have a perfect entrance to the brain and old trauma memory networks.
WHEN TO USE EMI?
EMI can be used to de-activate any and all traumatic memories. EMI can be used for a single traumatic incident and for more complex trauma such as experiences that continued over many years. EMI has successfully been used with:
Phobias; Physical, emotional or sexual abuse; Violence grief; Anxiety and panic attacks; Any form of accident; Burn out; Psychological aspects of illness; and Traumatic medical procedures. EMI can be used successfully at any age from about 4 years old.
MAKE AN APPOINTMENT
Individual or couples sessions can be booked. As we are facing the COVID-19 Pandemic, we also offer Skype sessions.
Languages: English & Afrikaans.