Heinz

Mr Heinz Fraenkel

Specialist Wellness Counselor

“I am trained in the Embodied Imagination method. The method incorporates dreams and focuses on the subjective bodily experience of events using 'bottom-up' processing. ​This approach facilitates implicit learning, and bypasses many of the pitfalls found in cognitive-based 'talk therapies'.”

About Me

I offer a unique approach for those seeking deeper understanding beyond traditional ‘talk therapy’. Using the Embodied Imagination method, we can explore your dreams and the subjective bodily experience of events. This ‘bottom-up’ processing helps you connect with feelings and insights implicitly. It offers a powerful way to work if other methods haven't quite fit. We can find new paths within your inner world.

Approach

Working with embodied imagery and dream exploration, I guide sessions toward sensing and unfolding what rises in the body rather than only naming thoughts. I hold meetings in Stellenbosch or via secure online sessions in English, pacing the work to your felt tempo and comfort. We track images, breath and subtle tensions, sometimes using short practices between sessions to anchor small but lasting shifts that surface from within. This way tends to suit people seeking deeper, experiential understanding and steadier choices.
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Basic Information

In-person & Online

Services

Services Offered:

  • Counseling

    A form of talk therapy providing a safe, confidential space to explore feelings, thoughts, and behaviours with a trained professional.

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  • Spiritual or Faith-Based Counseling

    Counselling that integrates spiritual or religious beliefs into the therapeutic process for people who want faith to be part of their healing.

Works With:

  • Adults

Area of Expertise

Scope of Practice:

  • Addiction

    A compulsive dependence on a substance or behaviour, such as alcohol, drugs, or gambling, that causes harmful consequences to health, relationships, or daily life.

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  • Behaviour or Conduct Issues

    Persistent patterns of defiant, aggressive, or rule-breaking behaviour in children or adolescents that significantly disrupt home, school, or social life.

  • Dream Work

    The exploration of dream content (themes, symbols, and emotions) to gain insight into unconscious feelings, conflicts, and desires.

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  • Personal Development

    The ongoing process of self-awareness, self-improvement, and reaching one's potential, pursued not because something is wrong but to live more fully.

  • Spiritual or Faith-Based Counseling

    Counselling that integrates spiritual or religious beliefs into the therapeutic process for people who want faith to be part of their healing.

Professional Title:

  • Specialist Wellness Counselor

    A counselor specialising in holistic well-being, integrating mental, emotional, and lifestyle support.

Credentials

Registrations

Association for Supportive Counsellors and Holistic Practitioners (ASCHP)

Specialist Wellness Counselor

Qualifications

SACAP

Service Areas

Private Practice

In-person & Online

Stellenbosch Central

Stellenbosch, Western Cape

South Africa

Stellenbosch Central, Stellenbosch, South Africa