Wilna van der Walt Practice

I practice as a psychotherapist in Muizenberg, Southern Suburbs, Cape Town. I offer individual psychotherapy to adults.  My approach is based mainly on the work of Dr. Carl Jung and this makes it possible to work with the creative and with dreams. I have more than 30 years experience in creative work in service of psychological development. Zoom consultations can be arranged.

I find Jung’s approach to psychotherapy very helpful, for it enables us to engage also with the fundamental aspects of the psyche. From his work we know that dreams and natural forces in the unconscious can assist us in our work. This inner guidance from your own psyche can be invaluable.

Perhaps you are feeling very depressed or anxious today, but this trouble can also be beneficial:

The unconscious always tries to produce an impossible situation in order to force the individual to bring out his very best. Otherwise one stops short of one’s best, one is not complete, one does not realize oneself. What is needed is an impossible situation where one has to renounce one’s own will and one’s own wit and do nothing but wait and trust to the impersonal power of growth and development. When you are up against a wall, be still and put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall.” ~ Carl Jung

What To Expect

If you choose to work with me, we will work with what you bring. Perhaps it is content from your everyday life or memories from the past. Your dreams and creative work may form part of our work together.

We will pay attention to what happens between us in the session and we will allow this process to unfold. We also pay special attention to old outdated patterns which might be interfering with your life. Traumatic experiences from the past often continue to make their influence felt throughout life in unpleasant and disruptive ways. In this, creative work can be very helpful. Together we can undertake this journey of self-discovery.

It would be ideal to meet once a week and my sessions are 50 minutes in duration. If you wish to make an appointment now, then please follow this link.

I am a registered medical doctor and practice as a psychotherapist.

The Role Of Creativity

The world of imagining, creativity and dreams speaks in its own unique language of images. This approach to the inner world is open to artists as well as non-artists. You need not be able to draw, or have any artistic background. It is also not art therapy. To integrate creative work into your therapeutic process is therefore a possibility, but it remains optional.

Creative work can be an invaluable supportive tool. In my creative approach, you can learn how to benefit from the natural tendency of the unconscious to want to restore inner equilibrium. As an integrated aspect of the therapeutic process it offers the possibility of embodiment. About this process Jung says:

A patient needs only to have seen once or twice how much he is freed from a wretched state of mind by working at a symbolical picture, and he will always turn to this means of release whenever things go badly with him.”