Counselling services
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More on family therapy and types of counselling
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Areas of counselling
The areas that I cover as a family therapist include:
- Family therapy (separately or collectively)
- Couples-/ or relationship counselling
- Children’s therapy
- Sibling rivalry
- Teenage counselling
- Divorce counselling (Before, During, After)
- (Re)constituted families
- Life cycle counselling (themes related to how we manage emotional and other developmental stages or transitions from childhood to our senior years)
- Pre-marital preparation
- Parental guidance
- Parent-child reunification (such as against the backdrop of parental alienation and divorce)
- Anxiety and depression
- Themes related to identity
- Themes related to gender
- Themes related to power, abuse of power, and self empowerment
- Illness, grief, bereavement and loss
- Spiritual accompaniment
- Critical decision-making (See referral and recommendation consulting)
Referral and recommendation consulting
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- Pre-divorce, pre-legal, and pre-mediation conversations
(‘I am considering to divorce’)
- Change of occupation conversations (‘I am considering to quit by job’)
- Being let go (‘I might be let go’ Or from the other side ‘We are restructuring and I might have to let go a number of employees)
- Any other critical decision-making conversations
Often people do not lend enough gravity to decisions such as ‘should I divorce’ or ‘should I change my job.’
[toggle_content title=”More on critical decision-making conversations”]The purpose of these conversations are not for me to tell you what you should do! Let’s take divorce as an example for why these professional conversations are important. The moment a person sees a lawyer or commits to mediation they are immediately part of a process where the end result is divorce. Psychological and emotional polarisation has already started to tear you down as a couple and as a person. It becomes a current that you find yourself in wherein it is difficult to change direction once you are in that current. If a person decides that they want a different outcome they would have spent a great deal of money and chances are that they are already part of an adversarial system. Mediation is intended to neutralise an adversarial system but critical conversations should take place even before that.
With critical conversations we give the stage or decision a person has to make the necessary gravity and reflection. I help you by exploring the decision and consequences in a multi-layered way. We go through as many options as possible. Then three things happen: 1) If appropriate I can then refer you to a specific person based on your situation; 2) We consider who (what professional) should be involved in the process; 3) We then look at whether it is at all necessary for me to be part of that process or maybe to just offer basic support during the unfolding of the process.[/toggle_content]
Other aspects to take note of
Approach
- The use of narrative therapeutic approaches (in other words using clients’ stories and experiences as the basis and medium for conversations and outcomes)
- Where applicable depending on the client the use of music or any other form of arts or crafts within a narrative approach
- Openness to dealing with religious or spiritual themes on request by the client or as it presents itself in a natural way
- A collaborative approach wherein we decide how much structure will be appropriate bearing in mind that it might also have to change at different times
Fees
There are different fee structures based on how we decide to work together as also necessitated by offering different services. Please ask for a fees schedule via email.