Mrs Sarah-Jane Lipshitz

Educational Psychologist

“I am an experienced Psychologist with extensive experience in helping individuals and their families navigate through difficulties in their lives”

About Me

I understand life's challenges can feel overwhelming for individuals and families, impacting well-being and progress. As an experienced psychologist, I guide you through these difficulties, offering a supportive space to explore concerns related to learning, development, or emotional growth. We work together to clarify complex situations and develop practical strategies tailored to your unique needs. My aim is to foster understanding and resilience, helping everyone involved find a clearer path forward.

Approach

We shape small, practical steps together, slowly untangling patterns that affect learning, emotions and relationships so challenges become more manageable. In Sandton or online, in English, sessions are collaborative and paced to your family's needs, combining conversation, guided reflection and practical problem‑solving. I bring observations from dreams, school or home into the room, translate them into clear options and set doable between‑session tasks to track change. Families seeking steady, pragmatic support for adolescents and relationships tend to find this way of working helpful.

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Basic Information

Sandton, South Africa

Services

Services Offered:

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Family Therapy
A form of therapy that works with family members together to improve communication, resolve conflict, and strengthen relationships within the family system.
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Works With:

•Families

Area of Expertise

Scope of Practice:

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Relationship Issues
Difficulties in romantic relationships, including communication problems, trust breakdowns, conflict patterns, or uncertainty about the relationship's future.
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Adolescent Therapy
Therapy designed for teenagers, using age-appropriate methods to address issues like anxiety, identity, peer pressure, and family conflict.
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Anxiety
Persistent worry, nervousness, or fear that is disproportionate to the situation and interferes with daily functioning.
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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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Dream Work
The exploration of dream content (themes, symbols, and emotions) to gain insight into unconscious feelings, conflicts, and desires.
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Family Issues
Difficulties within the family system, including conflict, communication breakdown, blended family tensions, or intergenerational patterns, that affect individual and collective well-being.
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Online Therapy
Therapy sessions conducted over video call, phone, or secure messaging, using the same professional methods delivered remotely.
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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.
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Relationship Counseling
Counselling for couples or partners focused on improving communication, rebuilding trust, and strengthening emotional connection.
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Abuse
Emotional, physical, or sexual mistreatment by another person that causes lasting psychological harm and disrupts a person's sense of safety.

Professional Title:

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Educational Psychologist
A psychologist specialising in learning, development, and educational needs of children, adolescents, and young adults.

Qualifications

University of Johannesburg

Registrations

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

Psychologist

Service Area

Rivonia Therapy Centre

In-person & Online

Rivonia

Sandton, Gauteng

South Africa