Ms Helene Potgieter

Registered Counselor

“I am a HPCSA registered counsellor working in private practice. My strengths lie in creative problem solving and using a client - centred approach. BWRT certified practitioner.”

About Me

I offer a client-centred space where we can creatively explore your challenges. My approach helps you uncover unique solutions tailored to your situation. If you feel stuck and need fresh ways forward, we will focus on your specific needs and pace. As a BWRT certified practitioner, I can also guide you through this practical, neuroscience-based technique for swift change. This ensures our work truly fits you.

Approach

Using creativity and a collaborative stance, I guide sessions toward small, practical experiments that address what matters to you and move at your rhythm. I work from Cape Town and online, in English or Afrikaans, keeping a relaxed environment where children, adolescents and adults can feel steady and heard. Sessions mix conversation, art-based tasks and focused, brief interventions to ease stuck patterns, with simple between-session steps to practice. This approach often helps people seeking practical, paced change.

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Basic Information

Cape Town, South Africa

Services

Services Offered:

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Art Therapy
A form of therapy that uses visual art-making (drawing, painting, sculpture) as a means of expression and emotional processing.
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Brain Working Recursive Therapy
A therapy that works with the brain's natural response patterns to change unwanted reactions before they reach conscious awareness.
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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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Trauma Counseling
Counselling specifically for people affected by traumatic events, focused on processing what happened and reducing symptoms like flashbacks and hypervigilance.
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Play Therapy
A therapy for children that uses play as a natural form of communication, allowing them to express feelings and process difficult experiences.
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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.

Works With:

•Adolescents
•Children
•Individuals

Area of Expertise

Scope of Practice:

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Career Issues
Work-related difficulties such as chronic dissatisfaction, conflict, burnout, uncertainty about direction, or the stress of career change.
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Trauma
The lasting psychological impact of deeply distressing events, such as violence, abuse, accidents, or disasters, that overwhelm a person's ability to cope.
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Professional Title:

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Registered Counselor
A counselor who is formally registered with a professional or regulatory body.

Qualifications

Nelson Mandela University (NMU)

Registrations

Health Professions Council Of South Africa (HPCSA); Board of Health Funders (BHF)

Registered Counsellor

Service Area

Corner Health

In-person & Online

Fish Hoek

Cape Town, Western Cape

South Africa