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Individual Therapy
Psychotherapy is a general term referring to the therapeutic interaction or treatment contracted between a trained therapist and a client. The “client” may be an individual (child, teenager or adult), a couple or a family. The problems addressed are psychological in nature and differ from case to case.
With regards to individual psychotherapy, the most important goals are to increase self-awareness and to improve current functioning and interaction with others. The idea is therefore that the individual obtains a greater understanding of his or her own problems and that the therapeutic process acts as a bridge towards the attainment of certain established goals.
Family Therapy
 Family therapy can be described as a therapeutic intervention that focusses on altering the interactions between and among family members and seeks to improve the functioning of the family as a unit and the functioning of the individual members of the family.
Family therapy has several goals: To resolve or reduce conflict and anxiety within interpersonal relationships, to enhance the perception and fulfillment by family members of one another’s emotional needs, to promote appropriate role relationships between the sexes and generations, to strengthen the capacity of individual members and the family as a whole to cope with stressors in the outside environment.
Couples Therapy
Family therapy can be described as a therapeutic intervention that focusses on altering the interactions between and among family members and seeks to improve the functioning of the family as a unit and the functioning of the individual members of the family.
Family therapy has several goals: To resolve or reduce conflict and anxiety within interpersonal relationships, to enhance the perception and fulfillment by family members of one another’s emotional needs, to promote appropriate role relationships between the sexes and generations, to strengthen the capacity of individual members and the family as a whole to cope with stressors in the outside environment.
Play Therapy
 Play therapy is a process whereby the trained therapist allows the child to explore, at his or her own pace and with his or her own agenda, those issues past or current, that is affecting the child’s life in the present. The therapeutic intervention focusses on the improvement of emotional, behavioural and social problems. The child’s inner resources are enabled by the alliance between the therapist and the child, to bring about growth and change. Play therapy is child-centred, play being the primary medium and speech the secondary medium.
Younger children may benefit from play therapy sessions as a form of intervention. Children from 5-11 years can be assisted at the practice by using play therapy. Older children and teenagers will be provided with therapy that is age appropriate.
Sessions are usually approximately 45 minutes in duration. The number of play therapy sessions that are necessary will be dependent on the nature of the problem.
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