Couple Therapy: Relationship dynamics 101

Remembering Madiba

Feeling your feelings

Feeling your feelings In Emotion-Focused Therapy: Coaching Clients to Work Through Their Feelings, Leslie S. Greenberg offers therapists an exciting new approach to helping clients live in harmony with head and heart. While most current books on coping emphasize mind over mood, and biological psychiatry offers psychotropic medication to regulate emotion, Greenberg proposes that, rather than controlling or avoiding emotions, clients can learn from their own bodily reactions and begin to act sensibly on them. Expressing emotion in ways that are appropriate to context is a highly complex skill, and one that is rarely taught. Rich in clinical wisdom, practical guidance, and case illustration, this book provides an empirically supported model of training clients to attain emotional wisdom. - Review from Amazon

Working with Parents Workshop

by Ashton Keiditsch

Inside Dyslexia

Frida Kahlo's wisdom

 I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can

Psychotherapy meets Africa in Durban

Counting the days until....

Wonder boy: Going beyond the surface

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

The precepts (rules to live by)

1. "When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind." —Dr. Wayne Dyer
2. "Your deeds are your monuments." —Inscription on ancient Egyptian tomb
3. "Have no friends not equal to yourself." —Confucius
4. "Fortune favors the bold." —Virgil
5. "No man is an island, entire of itself." —John Donne
6. "It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." —James Thurber
7. "Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much." —Blaise Pascal
8. "What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful." —Sappho
9. "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can." —John Wesley
10. "Just follow the day and reach for the sun." —The Polyphonic Spree
11. "Everyone deserves a standing ovation because we all overcometh the world." —Auggie Pullman

Waiting to be found: Children in care

Child supervision group focused on how to assist children currently receiving care in institutions- Heart-breaking and thought-provoking!

Women Who Run With The Wolves: Wild Woman Archetype

In the room: Therapist's feelings seminar

IARPP's webinar on South American Heinrich Racker's early take on therapist's feelings was food for thought!

Roaring fun!: DIY masks

Love these animal masks, as children can unleash their creativity with splayed-out colour anyway they wish! Just arrived at www.ingoodcompany.co.za in JHB and CT.

Trumpeting elephants for play therapy

Just added the Elephant family for play therapy and sandtray therapy...just arrived at Toys 'R' Us and now settled in Parkhurst with the other families!

Off to Psyssa!

SAMOSA: Victims no longer!

Very informative conference by South African Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse at GIBS, Jhb on the 18th of September 2013.
The new organisation hosted Mike Lew, author of Victims no longer!

Sandplay: On the battlefield

Just have to purchase these armed forces at In Good Company, Parkhurst, www.ingoodcompany.co.za, for conflict scenes in Sandplay therapy.

Emotion-focused couples therapy: Core Skills training 2014

Just signed up for ICEEFT Emotion-focused Couples Therapy Core Skills training 2014. So back at my alma mater Stellenbosch University who is hosting this training  to go deeper into this rather enjoyable and effective therapy for couples...Now to wait for January 28-29, 2014 to come around! Details at www.eftsouthafrica.co.za

Pretend play: Good enough to eat

These wooden products are going to be a rather yummy addition for pretend play in play therapy! Available at In Good Company, Parkhurst at www.ingoodcompany.co.za

Sandplay: An African farm

So excited just secured a vintage farmyard to complement Sandplay therapy! Available at In Good Company www.ingoodcompany.co.za in two plot sizes. Of course I opted to go big!

Group therapy: Journey Into Self - Carl Rogers

Sandplay Therapy

Tronick's Still Face

A worthwhile risk

Jung & sandplay therapy

“If I wanted to re-establish contact with that period (of childhood), I had no choice but to return to it and take up once more that child’s life with his childish games.  This moment was a turning point in my fate…I went on with my building game (in the sand)…In the course of this activity my thoughts clarified, and I was able to grasp the fantasies whose presence in myself I dimly felt…I had…only the inner certainty that I was on the way to discovering my own myth.” - Carl Jung

Winnicott: Mother and child centre stage

Hold me tight: The therapeutic conversations for couples

REVIEW: Heralded by the New York Times and Time magazine as the couple therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment bond. This idea, once controversial, is now supported by science, and has become widely popular among therapists around the world.

EFT in Stellenbosch: Couples therapy

So excited Emotion-Focused Therapy for Couples externship with James L. Furrow starts tomorrow in Stellies! Cant wait!

Nancy McWilliams: Personality dynamics

Wolf off to Brisbane!

DIY Puppets

Just been practicing making my puppet faces for play therapy  - purchased them today at www.ingoodcompany.co.za. Such fun!

Soaring up!