Psychotherapy

Services

Dr Mariska Pienaar

This practice is focused on the provision of individual psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults. I also offer family therapy.

Sessions can take place in-person at our Claremont rooms, or online.

Individual therapy sessions are designed to help clients navigate a wide range of presenting concerns, from goal achievement and personal growth to mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship issues. The practice utilises evidence-based treatments to help clients build resiliency, develop healthy coping skills, and achieve their goals.

A comprehensive overview of therapeutic focus areas of this practice can be perused on the Therapeutic Focus Areas page, but briefly, the following are included:

Mood disorders
Anxiety
Trauma
Social anxiety and loneliness
Stress management
Emotion regulation and distress tolerance
Tertiary student support
Confidence and self-esteem
Goal achievement
Personal growth & self-awareness
Career guidance
Finding and creating meaning

…that is at once not-quite-yet and no-longer-not. The source of the glow is a promise, a potentiality, a continuity. It is comforting, as when seen from underneath a closed door or through a keyhole, because it signals that someone is home. That someone is you.

– Mariska Pienaar

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”

– William Blake

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

– Christian Larson

It is often when lost in darkness that a client unwittingly reveals a light from within which was never extinguished by the darkness, but rather altogether forgotten about & hence not reached for, not switched on. Discovering and nurturing this glow is what I find most meaningful.

– Mariska Pienaar blog extract

Treatment modalities are carefully considered and selected for each client depending on their presenting issue, personality dynamics, symptoms presentation (if any), etc. The preferred therapeutic modalities I employ are evidence-based and suitable for the management of a broad range of presenting concerns. Each of these is discussed in more detail on the Therapeutic Approaches page, but briefly, the following is included:

Brief Dynamic Therapy
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
Humanistic Psychotherapy (Person-Centred Therapy)
Existential Psychotherapy (Logotherapy)

Clients are also welcome to learn a little more about some of the therapeutic paradigms I employ on the Therapeutic Approaches page.

Should you have any questions about the nature and focus of work that I undertake, you are welcome to send me an email or contact me via the Contact page.