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'Our wounds are a source of healing for the vulnerable'
Henry Nouwen
ABOUT
ABOUT ME
ABOUT ME
I am a therapist in private practice in Social Work and Clinical Pastoral Care
Registration: SAASWIPP; CPSC (2018P00225); SACSSP (1008174)
EDUCATION
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2018: PhD - Practical Theology, with Specialization in Pastoral Therapy, University of South Africa. (Title: Professionalization of Pastoral Care and Counselling. A critical assessment)
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2009: MTh - Clinical Pastoral Care and Counselling - University of Stellenbosch (Title: Postmodernism: A Challenge to Theory Formation in Pastoral Care and Counselling)
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2004: M.A. Social Work - University of the Western Cape (Title: An Explorative Study of the Developmental Social Welfare Approach)
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1984: B.A. Social Work - University of the Western Cape
EXPERIENCE
Registered with the SACSSP as Social Worker since 1985. Registered as a Social Worker in private practice with SAASWIPP since 2005. Trained in Clinical Pastoral Care and Counselling and registered as a Specialist Therapist since 2009 at regulating body CPSC.
Therapy Skills:
Accredited M.Th. Pastoral Care and Counselling Degree
Therapeutic skills in Individual and Group contexts with knowledge in the following areas:
- HIV/AIDS Training
- Counselling dying patients
- Gender issues and sexuality
- Psychology and physical illness
- The aged
- Bereavement and Grief Counselling
- Marriage Counselling
- Marriage in Postmodern Times
- Narrative Therapy with couples
- Relational Systems Model for Family Therapy
- Genograms in Family Assessment
- Clinical ward rounds
- Psychiatry: DSM lV
- Brief and Trauma Counselling
- Pastoral Care and Counselling – Psychiatric Patients
- Group Therapy
Alcoholism and Substance Abuse
Counselling models:
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (REBT)
- Person-centred Therapy
- Developmental Psychology
- Narrative Therapy
- Egan’s Solution Focused Therapy
- Crisis Counselling Model
- MLNP
Social Work Skills:
- Individual Counselling
- Group Therapy
- Family Therapy
- Counselling /Groups – Substance Dependents
Professional Experience:
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Psychiatric Care; Port Elizabeth, Mental Health Society: 1984
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Substance Dependence; De Novo Rehabilitation Centre: 1985-1989
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School Social Work - Dept. of Coloured Affairs: 1990-1992
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Generic Social Work – CAFDA: 1994-1998
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Generic Social Work – Diatesda: 1999-2008
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Substance Dependence –Aurora, SANCA: 2010-2011
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Private Practice: 2012- Current
SPECIALTIES
Counselling Scope
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Therapeutic counselling
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Brief Therapy
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Narrative Therapy
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Trauma Debriefing
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Bereavement Therapy
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Pastoral counselling
CONTACT ME
CONTACT
'The Messiah is called to be the wounded healer, the one who must look after his own wounds but at the same time be prepared to heal the wounds of others' Nouwen 2001
PHONE
+27780447505
ADDRESS
Heather Park, George
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