Services
Currently, I only provide counselling services as a Specialist Wellness Counsellor registered with the Association for Supportive Counsellors and Holistic Practitioners (ASCHP) (registration number SWC2024/7073),
However, I am in the process of training to become a certified and registered life coach. I look forward to being able to offer life coaching soon!
If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Counselling for Adolescents and Adults
The primary aim of a Specialist Wellness Counsellor is not to treat, but to improve, not to diagnose, but to screen (identify), and not to cure, but rather to care.
I offer counselling services to any individual who is 13 years old and older. For clients under the age of 18 to receive counselling, both their parents need to sign a consent form or alternatively one parent needs to get a court order.
I counsel individuals, couples, families, and other groups.
My Counselling Services
My counselling services include, but are not limited to:
- Coping skills
- Trauma debriefing
- Trauma counselling
- Crisis management
- Loss and grief counselling
- Substance abuse and addiction counselling
- Psycho-education
Coping Skills
Make an active commitment to learn and implement coping techniques to heal personal and interpersonal difficulties, in order to alleviate symptoms of distress and conflict. Examples of coping skills include grounding exercises, breathing techniques, journalling, etc.
Trauma Debriefing
Trauma debriefing usually takes place soon after someone has experienced a traumatic event, typically 24-72 hours thereafter. It is a specific form of counselling that helps and supports clients in dealing with the physical and/or psychological symptoms that result from trauma exposure. This includes containment, emotional support, psychoeducation, symptom management, and just generally sorting out the details and feelings surrounding the traumatic event.
Trauma Counselling
Trauma counselling facilitates healing, recovery, adjustment, and growth after experiencing a traumatic event to alleviate the symptoms of trauma. It helps the client process intense and overwhelming emotions through facilitating a space that allows the client to bring their feelings and thoughts to the fore. The ultimate aim is to help the client resume normal life, unburdened by the lingering, persistent, negative effects of the trauma with their sense of self restored.
Crisis Management
Crisis management attempts to address the client’s distress, impairment, and instability when facing an urgent, immediate crisis or disaster event. In addition to helping the client work through feeling emotionally overwhelmed, crisis management also helps the client solve practical problems. Coping skills may also be offered to the client. Crisis management lasts anywhere from 15 minutes to two hours and is provided throughout 1-3 sessions. While it is not a substitute for long-term therapy/counselling or psychiatric care, crisis counselling can provide a safe outlet for immediate relief.
Loss and grief counselling
Loss and grief counselling works to help clients process the physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and mental responses to loss. This includes the death of a loved one, but also extends to the significant life-changing loss of a relationship, role, or belief. It aims to help the client acknowledge that grief is a deeply personal, painful process with no correct time or way to grieve, but that ultimately acceptance and healing is possible.
Substance abuse and addiction counselling
Substance abuse and addiction counselling seeks to support, educate, and guide clients through the psychosocial factors involved as they make the decision to quit an addiction and try to follow through on that resolution. While attaining and maintaining sobriety is a life-long journey, I can help provide useful information and the tools needed to help with successfully living substance-free or recovering from a relapse.
Psycho-Education
Psycho-education consists of client education. It teaches clients and/or their loved ones evidence-based interventions that provide information and support to better understand, adjust, and manage their mental health. Psycho-education includes providing knowledge on attachment styles, coping skills, mental health struggles, burnout, breaking stigmatisation, etc.
I am in awe of flowers.
D. Antoinette Foy
Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow.
They still bloom.
Interested in Receiving Counselling?
Send an email to thebloomingpractice@gmail.com or a WhatsApp message to +27 71 342 9810 to make an appointment with me or ask any questions.
I will respond in between seeing clients during the following South African business hours (GMT +2):
- Monday: 08h30 – 19h00 (excluding 10h30 to 13h00)
- Tuesday: 08h30 – 19h00 (excluding 10h30 to 13h00)
- Wednesday: 08h30 – 19h00 (excluding 10h30 to 13h00)
- Thursday: 08h30 – 19h00 (excluding 10h30 to 13h00)
- Friday: Closed
- Saturday: Closed
- Sunday: 09h00 – 13h30
In case of an emergency, go to your nearest police station or to the emergency room of your nearest hospital.
Excited to hear from you!
The Blooming Practice 