Frequently Asked Questions

Asking for help can be challenging, and it takes courage to invite someone into your life to assist you in navigating life's storms. But when you take that brave step and open the door, you'll be met with warmth, compassion, unwavering support and you'll feel a tremendous sense of relief as the weight on your shoulders is lightened.

You may be experiencing:

• Emotional distress and persistent feelings of sadness, anxiety, anger that interfere with your daily functioning and are struggling to cope
• Relationship difficulties
• Suicidal thoughts plaguing your mind
• Negative thought patterns and self limiting beliefs 
• The aftermath of a traumatic event which is impacting you negatively
• Significant life changes or the loss of a loved one
• Unhealthy coping mechanisms like addictions or self harm.
• Low self-esteem/confidence
• Unresolved past issues
• A lack of direction or purpose
• Feelings of being stuck and unfulfilled
• Unable to achieve your goals in life
• An imbalance in your work-life balance

Counseling or coaching can help you in many ways. 

Here are some potential benefits:

1. Gain clarity and understanding about your thoughts and feelings

2. Help you identify and understand the underlying causes of your problems, negative thought and behavioral patterns.

3. Develop skills and techniques to cope with or overcome difficult situations, such as stress, anxiety, or depression. You will also learn strategies for managing emotions, improving communication, and building healthy relationships.

4. Set realistic goals and create an action plan to achieve them. They can provide guidance and support as you work toward your objectives.

5. Improve self-esteem and confidence: Through counseling or coaching, you can learn to appreciate your strengths and build self-confidence. You can also identify and overcome negative self-talk or limiting beliefs that may be holding you back.

6. Enhance personal growth: Counseling or coaching can help you identify areas for personal growth and development. You can work on improving your emotional intelligence, communication skills, and overall well-being.

7. Reduce a negative emotional charge a traumatic event may hold over you

8. Improved mental health: Therapy can help you manage mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). You can learn coping strategies, identify triggers, and develop skills to manage symptoms.

9. Increased overall well-being: Therapy can help you improve your overall well-being by reducing stress, improving relationships, and increasing self-awareness. This can lead to increased happiness and satisfaction with life.

Overall, counselling or coaching can provide a safe and supportive environment where you can explore yourself.

Thrive Your Mind is a cash-based practice ONLY. 

We cannot accept medical aid card payments, therefore you would not be able to claim back from your medical aid. 

Only clinical psychologists and medical doctors with practice numbers may claim from medical aid schemes.

My rates are as follows:

Face-to-face:  R550 per session

Online:          R400 per session

There are also discounted online coaching packages and Access Bars Therapy packages available.

Kindly contact connect@thriveyourmind.co.za for a detailed rate structure.

Book a free 15 minute consultation with me in order to establish your challenges and how I can assist you. 

If you are happy to proceed, I will send you intake agreement forms and the availability schedule to begin sessions.

Due to us being a cash-based practice, payment would need to be made in advance before the start of any session.

Confidentiality is a crucial part of our therapeutic relationship. It is essential that my clients feel safe and comfortable discussing sensitive and personal issues during our sessions. 

It is in fact a fundamental ethical principle that I must maintain confidentiality of all discussed excluding specific situations where there is a risk of harm to my client, others or if required by law. 

In such instances, I will always work with my client to find the most appropriate way to address such issues while still respecting their privacy and dignity.

A Specialist Wellness Counsellor is a member of the ASCHP with an applicable postgraduate qualification on NQF level 8 (BA Hons Psych) and a minimum 100 hours of practical experience. 

I serve to enhance the total wellbeing of my clients by making use of a holistic approach to counselling – working towards achieving wholeness within the integrative unity of body, mind and spirit. 

A holistic systems approach entails that a human being is an integrated whole in which all aspects of existence are entangled and mutually influence one another. This is also referred to as the wellness model. Wellbeing is improved over a wider spectrum rather than healing a specific condition. Psychologists operate on a medical diagnosis model and would aim to heal a specific mental illness.

As a Specialist Wellness Counsellor, I aspire to care and support rather than cure.

I instead help my clients to cope with or find solutions to these problems. We provide comprehensive and specialized counselling support towards the improvement of quality of life by helping client’s resolve conflicts, improve relationships, overcome general problems, cope with life’s challenges and find inner peace. 

I may screen clients to detect weaknesses, needs and deficiencies. The purpose of screening is to compile a comprehensive healthcare profile of the client in order to understand how to enhance my client’s wellbeing rather than diagnose a specific pathology. 

The ASCHP is home to community or workplace-based counsellors who work in structured and supervised environments including, but not limited to private Wellness/Counselling Centres or government institutions, schools, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO’s) including Faith Based, Community Based and Not-for-Profit Organisations, the South African Police Service, Counselling Call Centres, Hospitals, Clinics and Support Agencies, Sports Centres, Education and Training facilities, Health and Emergency services and facilities.

It is a nationally recognized professional body ensures consistency in standards across and within provinces in South Africa, and across different counselling contexts. It provides a learning pathway for unqualified counsellors who currently work in a variety of contexts, often in environments where mental health professional such as psychologists and social workers are not necessarily accessible to the majority of the population. Registration of counsellors with a professional body will provide a consistent basis for evaluating and regulating counselling and will ensure greater access to counselling services.

Counselling enables one or more people to go through the process of finding solutions to their concerns or difficulties. Counselling may take various forms, including with individuals, couples, families or domestic units and groups. The ASCHP has identified accredited training providers to enable counsellors to gain accredited and applicable qualifications. This will allow counsellors to be recognised and will address current national health and social service priorities. Ideally, qualifying learners will operate under supervision.

The generic scope of a wellness practice includes, but is not limited to, providing support in interpersonal social relationships, spiritual growth, marital relationships, parental relationships, mental health related issues such as stress management, anger management, lifestyle management in prevention of chronic diseases, victim empowerment, domestic violence, trauma debriefing, suicide ideation, household planning, HIV/AIDS counselling, workplace adaptation, risk taking, study methods, bullying, management of anxiety and depression, sexual abuse, rape, substance abuse, support of vulnerable people, meeting cultural issues and diversity in the workplace, support to people with disabilities, mental preparation for retirement, and any other general problem that people encounter in day to day living.

I am bound to a specific scope of practice which is comprehensive but excludes psychotherapy, social work, medical health work and occupational therapy. My scope excludes paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal,  antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive personality disorders. I'm also limited to making any diagnosis as this would need to be done by a HPCSA registered professional.

Specialist Wellness Counsellors work on primary health care level, and are as such obliged to terminate counselling and refer clients to a professional (doctor, psychologist, social worker or psychiatrist) where their counselling (with reference to possible pathology or dysfunction) falls outside the scope of their practice.

Each counselling or coaching session is 1 hour long and may consist of talk, activities, engagement or techniques that are needed for your specific situation.

All sessions are available in person or online (excluding Access Bars therapy sessions). 

It is however, advisable to conduct sessions in person for better human interaction.

Traumatic Counselling sessions may extend up to 2 hrs if required. Due to the  intense nature of these sessions it is advisable not to have anything else booked for the rest of the day following the session.