MB ChB (UFS) Pr. No. 0681652

Psychotherapist in Muizenberg, Southern Suburbs, 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, bringing relief to our psychological suffering, anxiety and depression. In our work, we aim at bringing content of the conscious and the unconscious in better alignment. This is a gradual process and brings increased maturation of the personality, greater inner balance and wholeness. It brings the possibility of developing new attitudes and finding purpose and meaning in one’s life.

I am a registered medical doctor practicing as a psychotherapist. 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.

Perhaps you feel as if your back is against the wall today, that life has become difficult, impossible even. I would like to share Jung’s thoughts about this:

C.G. Jung, Dream Seminars

“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.”

What to expect

Our session will be a secure and safe space. We would work with what you feel comfortable in bringing. It may be experiences from your everyday life or memories from the past, or perhaps you would like to bring your dreams 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 bring valuable information and carries 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 Old outdated patterns which may be interfering with your life will need our special attention.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.

Lost, by David Wagoner

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.