

Training, qualifications & experience:
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8 years experience running play therapy practice.
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Qualified as a Registered Counsellor and registered with HPCSA.
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Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) B.Psych. Equivalent Programme (SACAP) Cum Laude
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B.A. Hons (Psychology) (UNISA) Cum Laude
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B.Com Hons (Accounting) UPE & Qualified CA(SA)
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Completed Introductory & Advanced Play Therapy Certificates with Dr Rinda Blom (Red Shoe Centre)
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Completed a Post Graduate Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills with Play Therapy International.
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Attended the Child Trauma Training on ADHD, Bipolar mood disorder, Depression & Anxiety in children (2018).
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Worked with teens & adults as a volunteer counsellor at the Bryanston Methodist Church counselling house and completed the following courses through them:
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Basic Course in Christian Counselling
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Teen Counselling
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Trauma Counselling
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Sand-tray therapy
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Creative techniques in counselling
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Certificate obtained as a HeartLife Accredited Facilitator​ (2014) (HeartLife is character, personal, leadership and culture development tool).
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Volunteered at Hope House (a counselling centre in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town) offering play therapy to children with a variety of challenges.
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Set up and led a community-based Emotional Health Centre for a local NPO which offered individual counselling to adults, play therapy to children, trauma group therapy, art therapy as well as various life skills and character development workshops such as HeartLife. We partnered with various organisations such as SACAP, CASE, ChildLine, The Warehouse and Safeline to provide these services to the community.
