If you struggle with anxiety, you are not alone. Anxiety is a common mental health condition characterized by feelings of fear, worry, or unease. Anxiety can be triggered by ongoing stress, uncertainty, or perceived threats, but when it becomes excessive or persistent, it can interfere with daily life. Anxiety can be caused by a variety of factors, including genetics, brain chemistry, and environmental factors. Treatment in therapy involves helping the individual identify and manage the factors that contribute to their anxiety as well as self-regulatory techniques. Our psychologists utilise an integrative approach, incorporating cognitive-behavioural, narrative, solution-focused and dialectical behavioural techniques.

Our psychologists have extensive experience in the field of career counselling and in our view, the central goal of career counselling has shifted from choosing an occupation or charting a career path to championing a meaningful work life that matters to the person and to society. The complexities of 21st century life require new ways of helping people navigate the world of work and careers, which is why a contemporary perspective on career counselling is necessary. We recognise that this unstable world requires each individual to create a sense of stability within themselves in order to flourish and lead a fulfilling life. Our aim is to help and inspire individuals to use work to create a more meaningful and fulfilling life by utilising a narrative career counselling approach; interpreting results from the assessments, and relaying them in a non-prescriptive way. When individuals understand and can tell their own life stories with clarity and conviction and engage in a self-reflexive process, they become authors who actively shape themselves and their life-careers rather than actors who passively perform in work roles, often playing parts scripted for them by someone else.

We incorporate contemporary models and methods in a distinctive approach to advance career counselling in the digital age and look forward to constructing your career story with you, using narrative career counselling.

Parental guidance refers to the process of providing support, advice, and direction to parents to help them raise healthy, happy, and well-adjusted children. The goal of parental guidance is to provide parents with the skills and knowledge they need to meet their child’s physical, emotional, and social needs, and to promote their overall development. Common topics covered in parental guidance include child development, behaviour management, discipline strategies, communication skills, and family dynamics. By providing parents with the tools they need to support their children, parental guidance can help promote positive parent-child relationships and improve outcomes for children.

In a nutshell, psychometric assessments are scientifically based measures that tap into various areas of functioning for the purpose of gaining a holistic perspective of the individual. These include but are not limited to personality preferences, cognitive and learning potential, reasoning abilities, integrity, thinking style, interests, motivations and values. Psychometric assessments are developed by psychology professionals and are normed for the South African population (meaning that they are reliable assessments backed by statistics regarding each measure’s suitability to the population and the purpose of each assessment). These assessments are regulated by the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) and have a variety of purposes- from guiding a training program for personal or team development in a corporate setting to gaining self-awareness or clarity through career counselling. When used appropriately and ethically, these assessments can add tremendous value to an individual’s life and assist him/her in making an informed decision before changing careers; enrolling for a course, diploma or degree; or choosing his/her grade 10 subjects.

A psychoeducational assessment is a thorough evaluation of an individual’s cognitive, academic, social, and emotional functioning conducted by a licensed psychologist or educational specialist.

The assessment involves a variety of tests and measures to identify strengths and weaknesses in areas such as intelligence, memory, attention, language, and academic skills. The results of the assessment can be used to diagnose learning disabilities, intellectual giftedness, ADHD, and other developmental or behavioural disorders and can inform the development of appropriate educational and therapeutic interventions.

Accommodations and concessions refer to the adjustments made by educational institutions to ensure that students with disabilities or other special needs are not disadvantaged in their learning. Accommodations are modifications to the learning environment or instructional methods that do not change the fundamental requirements of the course or program, while concessions are modifications that alter the fundamental requirements of the course or program. Examples of accommodations include extended time on exams or the use of assistive technology, while examples of concessions may include waiving certain course requirements or allowing for alternative assignments. The goal of accommodations and concessions is to create a level playing field for all students to succeed in their academic pursuits. Accommodations and concessions can only be made through psychoeducational assessments as well as the necessary IEB/GDE forms that need to be completed and submitted in time by the parent.