Paraklesis Counselling

Counsellors can play an important role in the aftermath of the covid-pandemic

"We can treat the symptoms but that does not mean our clients will get their lives back" - a statement that beginning therapist still take issue, but soon accept.

Could this be the breakthrough in treating treatment resistant depression?

Online learning ...

I know you counsellors cannot wait for 2021 ...

The Paraklesis Psychopharmacology course starts Nov 01 - Personality Disorders usually grab the attention, and the one being talked about a lot5 at present is Narcissistic Personality Disorder

This topic is addressed in the Paraklesis Child and Adolescent Counselling Course starting Nov 01 (Term-4)

IN the Human Development Course the neurobiological Development, especially the early brain development and migration of neurons to where they are going to perform a specific role, gets huge attention. This article reports that the mechanism that controls which cells go where, has been "discovered" (or at least a theory proposed).

Online education can be challenging - all our student-counsellors should be encouraged :)

Student-counsellors in my Crisis & Trauma class should read Daniels article on resilience.

Howard was a student and I the professor, but I learned more from him, than he from me. Howard, I honour you and your memories

Addictions Counselling Course coming up.

I often remind my student-counsellors that the concepts of a sub-conscious mind is only a theory that has never been proved true and not supported by neuroscience.

For all my Afrikaans speaking students. Compassionate Care lived in praxis

In the Addictions course the question often comes up whether social media is "addictive". In the Crisis and Trauma and the Child and Adolescent courses, we look more on how social media contributes to self-worth and self-image and the relationship to rising numbers of teenage self-harm and suicide. Watch the documentary on Netflix if you can and let me know what you think.

Helping clients accept that we seldom get our ducks in a row, can be challenging

Could not believe my counselling training program was not in the list

THis song was posted by one of the student-counsellors in the Crisis & Trauma counselling course. Perhaps you need to hear that it will be alright.