Psychotherapist in Muizenberg, Cape Town. I offer individual psychotherapy to adults.
My approach is informed by the work of Dr. Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist. He found that the unconscious is active in our lives and wants to guide us.
Your dreams and creative work are welcome, for it can assist us in following the guidance from your deeper self. Perhaps you do not remember your dreams or are not creatively active. That is not a problem, for we work with what you bring.
My sessions are 50 minutes in duration. Zoom consultations can be arranged. If you want to make an appointment or require more information, please follow this link.
What to expect
Our session will be a secure and safe space. We would work with what you feel comfortable in bringing, from your outer and inner world. It may be experiences from your everyday life or memories from the past, your thoughts and feelings, or perhaps a dream or creative work.
The world of imagining, creativity and dreams speaks in its own unique language of images. Our inner world is based on images, and there are different ways of gaining access to this world. These images from your unconscious bring valuable information from your core and has therefore healing power.
We will pay attention to what happens between us in the session and we will allow this natural process to unfold. Old outdated patterns which may be interfering with your life will need our special attention. Together we will undertake this journey of self-discovery and personality growth.
“Often we are led to a wall, it is too high, we cannot get over it and we stand there and stare at it. Rationalism says, ‘There is no getting over it, just go away.’ Yet, natural development has led the patient up to an almost impossible situation to show him that this is the end of his rational solutions. It is meant that he should get there, and perhaps stay there, make roots and grow like a tree, in time overcome the obstacle and grow over the wall. There are things … that cannot be answered today.”
CG Jung, Dream Seminars
The tree within yourself
The tree represents the manifestation of the life-force, of our ability to grow into greater maturity; when faced with an impossible life situation, one should not try to force anything, but ‘stay in one place and grow, like a tree.’ (Jung, Dream Seminars, 1929)
Inner growth may enable one to outgrow and rise above a difficult life situation, to attain a more objective perspective and discover alternative options that may have been there all along.
The seed has to break open and grow towards the light, the higher values. Breaking open is painful, but necessary; without it there will be no growth. The tree roots us. Its roots stretch away into the darkness of the earth, into the shadow. Like the fountain, the tree may draw water from deep beneath the earth, from the well-springs of life, if the roots reach deep enough.
A tree goes through seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. After the death-like feeling of winter, stripping away the old, new life returns, blossoming, ripening our fruit. Our lives circle continuously through periods of spring, summer, autumn, winter and spring again.
Tree image credit: Jan Huber photography
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