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"The sacred speaks to our deepest dreams and aspirations, the truths we hold to be timeless, our sense that there is something that lies beyond our everyday experience, and our most fundamental assumptions about why we are here, how we should live our lives and what if anything we leave behind. Any psychology of human behavior remains incomplete without an appreciation for our desire to know and connect to the sacred"
(K. Pargament: Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy. 2007, p. 342)
I first trained as a Social Worker and later as a Clinical Psychologist in South Africa. I registered with the Medical and Dental Council of South Africa as a Clinical Psychologist in 1979 and worked in a variety of institutions and in private practice until I came to Canada with my family in 1997. In Canada, I started practicing in Kanata, Ottawa as a registered psychological service provider in private practice, with the College of Psychologists of Ontario, in 1998.
My experience in the field of psychology took me through a personal and professional life journey of human suffering and healing which helped create a bird's eye view on the kaleidoscope of human processes.
The most important realization to me is that the Human Being is an integrated system of Mind, Body, Soul and Spirit.
Mind describes our cognitive abilities that relate to acquiring knowledge through conscious and unconscious perception, intuition and reasoning.
Soul describes our heartfelt feelings and emotions and refers to our mood, sentiment and reactions.
Body refers to the physiological and chemical structure, composition, properties, and reactive characteristics on the atomic and molecular levels.
Spirit refers to our sense of having a vital life force that characterizes our connectedness to the whole of existence.
This practice use a combination of Cognitive, Emotionally Focused and Energy Psychological Psychotherapy Approaches for problems such as:
My focus is to help you free yourself from emotional holding patterns through an integrative psychological service that address your problem on all the levels of your being.
"It is easier to perceive error than to find truth,
for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen,
while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.