What is Wellness?
People in poor health will often engage medical professionals to treat their illnesses. On the healthier side of the spectrum, people in good health focus on prevention and even better health. This is what we call wellness.
Wellness is Multi-Dimensiona
Wellness includes attention to the following areas:
- Physical (healthy body via exercise, nutrition, sleep, etc)
- Mental (ensuring cognitive fitness by learning new skills, problem-solving and creativity exercises)
- Emotional (in touch with one’s own and others’ feelings)
- Spiritual (connected to one’s meaning and purpose in life)
- Social (meaningful connection with others and one’s community)
- Environmental (consciously interacting with one’s environment ensuring its sustainability)
- Relationships (experiencing a fulfilling significant relationship)
Optimise your Wellness
To kickstart your Personal Wellness Strategy call https://psychealth.co.za/contact-us/ for an appointment. We will help you to align your values and personal aspirations; establish your goals and priorities around your important areas of wellness; and we will help guide you towards an optimal sense of well-being.
Free 15-minute Introductory Session
If you’re anything like me, you want to know who you’re going to entrust with your personal problems. You may have concerns about therapy, or wonder if I can help you with your particular issue, or if you can relate to me.
Contact me and set up a free 15-minute session which we can do over the phone or via Skype
I look forward to hearing from you!
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Relationship / Couple Counselling
We are all “in relationship”! Relationship issues affect all of us at some time or other: married couples, parent-child(ren), siblings, intimate couples, employee-employer, and so on. Often individuals or couples will describe how their relationships have become disconnected due to attitudes of blame, loneliness, resentment and fear. A process of cognitive behavioural techniques and communication strategies are tailored to meet the needs of the individual or couple rediscover meaning and purpose in their relationships.
Stress Management
Everyone experiences stress but not everyone experiences it in the same way. Dealing with general life stressors such as work, finance and relationship problems can become overwhelming at times. The results of excessive stress can be ‘burnout,’ poor sleeping habits, irritability, decline in quality of close relationships, and ultimately dangerous health risks including heart-failure. Typically a person may resort to drinking, smoking, looking at porn on the net or taking recreation drugs with the hope that these distractions will help you cope. Counseling helps the individual understand stress and its health affects as well as learn effective coping mechanisms.
Trauma Counseling
If you have recently experienced or witnessed a BURGLARY, RAPE, PHYSICAL ASSAULT, HIJACKING, ACCIDENT or any traumatic event, it is important to seek psychological assistance.Traumatic experiences shake the foundations of our beliefs about safety, and shatter our assumptions of trust. Each person handles a traumatic experience differently: some may respond immediately, others much later with symptoms such as severe anxiety, depression or numbness. Symptoms of flashbacks, nightmares, intrusive thoughts, and hyper-arousal that still exist several weeks after a traumatic event may indicate a person is suffering from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and it is important that treatment is sought.
Research shows that help should be obtained within 24-72 hours after the traumatic event in order to successfully process the negative feelings. When traumatic experiences are not dealt with effectively they can sometimes manifest in unhealthy ways later for example in the form of irrational feelings of anger or depression. Counselling is very effective and depending on the severity of the trauma fairly quickly resolved.[/expand]
Personal Growth and Development
There are times in our lives when we become aware that we’re not living our best lives. We know we are holding ourselves back from living an abundant, happy and fulfilled life but don’t know what to do about this. Typically one may feel ‘I don’t have the time’, or “my family’s needs are more important than mine” and at the same time feel a sense of regret, sadness or even resentment as life goes by. What tends to hold us back from achieving a sense of fulfilment are our limiting belief systems. Deeply held negative belief systems are subconsciously driving us in the choices or decisions we make on a moment-by-moment basis. Getting to the root of these helps remove the blockages and empowers us to live our best lives.
