More about Charlotte

I completed my Masters training at Rhodes University, and my internship at the Counselling and Careers Development Unit at

Wits University. I practice predominantly from a psychodynamic perspective, focusing on your interpersonal relationships, and the connection between past experiences and current difficulties, in order to try to move to a greater understanding of yourself and to find a place of healing.

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The focus of the beginning of the therapy process is about ensuring that you are comfortable in the space, and feel that it is a space where you are being heard and feel safe. Sometimes shifts and changes start to happen right from the first session, just by sharing your story, and sometimes it can take some time to start to feel that you are fully opening yourself up to the process.

Once your hopes for therapy have become clear, depending on your needs, I will integrate some skills (such as emotion regulation), alongside the process of understanding what’s behind your emotional responses and making links between your patterns of relating to others. I value that change and growth is possible for everyone. I believe that given the experience of sitting in a non-judgemental, empathic space where we think together about your understanding of yourself, this will provide you with the capacity to reflect on your experiences and responses, and develop your sense of self.