Counselling

Focus Counselling
Upcoming Workshops
Counselling Association

Face to Face | Telephonic | Email
Monday – Friday
9:00am – 4:00pm

Focus on the Family Office
32 Old main road, Hillcrest, Durban

Tel: +27 (0)31 716 3300
E-mail: counselling@fotf.co.za

Just a couple of things
before you start:

1. We are not a crisis line and work office hours only (08:30 – 16:30 SA time), so, if your need is urgent, and you are in South Africa, please contact your local police station or one of the following crisis lines.

LIFE LINE: 0861 322 322
RAPE CRISIS: 0800 150 150
CHILDLINE: 0800 055 555
AIDS HELPLINE: 0800 012 322
SUICIDE CRISIS LINE: 0800 567 567 or
SMS to 31393

Or for more help and emergency numbers visit: Grace Counselling www.gracecounselling.org.za or
SADAG www.sadag.org

2. Our own telephone counsellors are available on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 09:00 & 16:00. For marriage and parenting related questions.

3. Your e-mails are confidential. You can tell us anything. However, there are three exceptions to our assurances of confidentiality:

• Any suspicion of risk of child or other abuse, based on the beliefs of the counsellor, must be reported to welfare or law enforcement authorities.

• If your email is of or could have anything construed as something of a criminal nature or if you are involved in a court case in which your email may somehow be relevant, courts have the power to subpoena our records.

• If someone’s life is in danger, the counsellor may choose to report it. This applies to all potential cases of suicide or homicide.

4. We will endeavour to respond to your email enquiry within a week.

5. Your email will be given to the first available and appropriately trained counsellor and will be checked by a supervisor before being sent out.

6. We are NOT doctors, psychologists, or psychiatrists, but trained counsellors. For medical problems, please refer to the medical experts.

7. Focus on the Family is not liable for any act or omission taken by any user or third party in response to any information provided by the email service.

We specialize in counselling

Marriage / Relationships
Parenting
Couples & Families
Children / Adolescents / Adults
Career Testing
Emotional Problems
Grief
Trauma
HIV/AIDS

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UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Carol-Ann Dixon – Cowies Hill

Qualifications:

M.A. (Couns. Psych.) Cum laude – RAU 1999
Certified Imago Therapist
Certified Imago Workshop Presenter
Imago Africa Board Chair

James Sharratt – Durban North

I am a Clinical psychologist and graduated from Stellenbosch University in 1997. Since 2001 I have worked in private practice in Durban North. Previously, I have worked in one of Europe’s leading Mental Health Hospitals in London for 18 months, as well as at Riverview Manor, a private mental health facility in Kwazulu Natal, which specializes in the treatment of addiction and eating disorders. I work with: children 9 years and older; adolescents and adults and my areas of interest are: addiction; eating disorders; relationship and marital therapy; divorce; depression and bipolar mood disorders; anxiety and panic disorder; OCD; stress; anger management; trauma; grief; sexual abuse and mediation. I see myself as a Christian and my relationship with God is an important part of my life.

Sinette G. van Rooy Booysen – Durban

I am a registered Clinical Psychologist practicing in Durban. My profession was chosen based on a sincere interest in the mental well-being of those around me. During sessions I aim to empower my clients to flourish. I work with children, adolescents and adults through individual, marital or family therapy.

Therapy is seen as collaboration between client and therapist. A technical eclectic and integrative approach is followed, by considering which therapeutic approach will work best for a particular client, in a particular situation, with a particular problem. I run my practice based on a firm ethical foundation and only use scientifically sound approaches.

Wendy Greyvensteyn – Pretoria

Dr Gert Meyer – Umhlanga

Psy Hon and Crim Hon (UP) MA. Clin. Psych & D Litt et Phil (UNISA)

Caitlin Barford – Pretoria East

Qualifications: Counselling Psychologist
Specialization: Substance Abuse; Anxiety; child abuse; communication; Depression; Grief counselling; Suicide; Career counselling; Obsessive/Compulsive disorder; Parenting; PTSD; Rape recovery, eating disorders; Post abortion counselling; play therapy.

Amorie Burns – Pretoria

Qualifications: Counselling Psychologist
Specialisation: Marriage counselling

Lizette Grobler – Parktown, Pretoria

Interests: Individual, Couple & Marriage Therapy; Substance abuse; Depression; Work Stress; Trauma Counselling; Adolescent & Child therapy; Eating Disorders