Winelands Clinical Psychologists

25/10/2021

Postpartum depression can affect mothers months after the birth of a baby. The condition is often dismissed because mothers assume that having a new baby is “just this hard” or are ashamed to admit that they are in an exceptionally dark emotional space.

Mental illness kills more mothers in the first year postpartum than anything else and is a major contributor to marriage breakdown after a baby but maternal ...

15/06/2021

10/10/2020

22/09/2020

Although online work predominates, we are slowly but surely easing into consulting in person again.

22/09/2020

Colleague Claire Haggard takes you to her side of the therapy space in this insightful piece.

Over the last few months, I have found myself thinking a great deal about what it means to respond “ethically” to the other. Most often these thoughts have been in relation to my work as a psychotherapist and thus within the context of the therapeutic encounter.

23/07/2020

Insightful article by colleague Claire Haggard.

On a broader level, the notion of a grand experiment also seems to create a clinical distance from that which feels inflammatory and “hot to the touch”. It is quite possible to argue that the protests against systemic racism and police violence sweeping the globe, highlight the manners in which ...

24/06/2020

An issue that has not received substantial attention in the time of COVID, but is relevant and seems to surface in more honest conversations these days, is the status of sexual relationships and more specifically, libidinal changes in this time.

22/05/2020

A lovely article by my colleague Warda Arnolds-Bergstedt.

Do you remember a time when a close friend was going through a difficult time? What was your response to this friend? Was it compassionate, gentle, and caring? Something like, “I am so sorry that happened to you. It’s okay that you are upset, I would be too. Is there anything I can do to help?.....

15/05/2020

Die uitbreek en bestuur van die Covid-19-pandemie stel ongekende eise aan Suid-Afrikaners op alle vlakke - ook wat sielkundige welstand betref. Hierdie gesondheidskrisis bring noodwendig onverwagte en drastiese persoonlike en ekonomiese beperkings mee, wat die menslike behoefte aan gesonde beheer, a...

22/04/2020

Clinging to perfectionism is harmful. Try being authentic instead.

01/04/2020

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