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“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” ~ Nelson Mandela

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but having new eyes” ~ Marcel Proust

“In the small matters, trust the mind, in the large ones, trust the heart” ~ Sigmund Freud

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” ~ Nelson Mandela

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but having new eyes” ~ Marcel Proust

“In the small matters, trust the mind, in the large ones, trust the heart” ~ Sigmund Freud

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY SERVICES

ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY

“So you try to think of someone else you’re mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your brain: everyone” – Ellen Hopkins

Adolescent psychotherapy focuses on building a trustworthy relationship with a teenager. I deal primarily with pre-adults i.e. from age 15 years of age.

During this collaborative process, presenting complaints will be addressed head on and the space created during therapy will allow for healing and troubling symptoms to alleviate.The pre-adult is sometimes not heard or seen. In this day and age, with technology taking over lives, teenagers blend into their environments to ultimately become invisible.

Although this might seem as a self-fulfilling prophecy, it is not, as depression, anger, insecurities and anxiety are symptoms born from not being seen or heard. Adolescent therapy takes place from a person-centered vantage point. This means that the therapist-teen relationship is observed and dissected from the teen’s point of view, letting the therapist into their warped worlds. Together the teen guides the therapist to the point where certain and perhaps painful emotional surgeries take place.

INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom” – Viktor E. Frankl

Attending individual psychotherapy can entail a plethora of possibilities. These can range from addressing personal distress, anxiety, bereavement, dealing with serious psychopathology (like Bipolar Mood Disorder), experiencing trouble or conflict at work, having to make a big life decision, the list goes on and on…

When providing the service of individual therapy, a person-centred approach will ensue. The therapeutic process will move at the desired pace of the individual client.

During this therapeutic process, we will also unpack psychodynamicmaterial that has impacted on the individual in the past.Individual therapy is a journey not a race. It can yield quick results or be a long term process, depending on the demands, unique emotional and cognitive composition of the individual.

PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination” – Albert Einstein

Psychological Assessment is the blending of certain measures that can tell us something specific about a person or a group of people. This “something” is a mere idea of what a certain person presents as at a certain point in time, in other words, under different conditions this person might behave completely different. Therefore, when psychological evaluation is administered the client is treated holistically and seen in his / her context of their environment.

In my practice, psychological assessment entails the following:

Projective Assessments: These assessments are designed to determine what personality traits are present in an individual. These measures can also reveal certain subconscious emotions or internal conflicts

Cognitive Assessments: This entails evaluating a person’s learning abilities, capacity to process data, thinking, memory, language and judgments.