Mr John Soderlund M.A. (Psych)
Psychologist (Counselling),
Dreyersdal, Cape Town.
Services
I aim to ensure that therapy can be a safe space in which we can learn to more consciously understand the relationship between what we feel, think and do. When are more aware of this dynamic, we tend to make decisions that are congruent and sustainable, and that give us a more lasting and deeper sense of meaning.
MY FEES:
- Insurance accepted
Online Consultation
- Online consultations offered
I AM FLUENT IN:
- English
I WORK WITH:
- Adolescents
- Adults
- Couples
- Families
- Individuals
- Organisations
CORE SERVICES:
- Counselling
- Individual and Couple Therapy
- Online Counselling / Phone Therapy
- Psychotherapy
- Therapy
SCOPE OF PRACTICE:
- Addiction
- Adolescent Counselling
- Anxiety Disorders
- Depression
- Family Problems
- Relationship Counselling
Approach
If you are facing what feel like insurmountable challenges, you are likely also feeling emotionally overwhelmed. I provide a therapeutic space where safety, confidentiality and understanding allow you to explore your emotions, the issues you are facing and the road that may have brought you here. We will try to understand the links between what you think, feel and do and explore ways for you to exercise more considered choice in how you navigate this crazy world. I'd like to help you to gain more understanding of your relationships with your most precious others, your work and your play. Then, armed with this insight, you will be able to more confidently make the decisions that are best for you and those around you.
My view of psychological health
I believe that we all have lived through difficult relationships and times in our lives that have encouraged us to build ways of surviving. But often, we take those coping strategies with us from the difficult context into other spaces and relationships where the coping mechanisms might no longer be to our best advantage. More consciously understanding these adaptations we have made allows us to explore whether they are still useful or, perhaps, whether they might be hampering our current lives. Therapy aims to interrogate these patterns in a considered way that is not often possible without dedicating time to do so.
How to use psychotherapy
I believe that the best person to decide on how to use therapy, how often to meet, what to discuss in session and where the therapeutic focus should be, is you. We all have a natural impetus towards thriving and, in my experiences with over a thousand individual clients, I have seen that we tend to have a good idea of where to focus to find the source of most disabling snags when we are given the space to do so.
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