About

My passion for counselling began when, as a student nurse in the ’80s, I realised how little time was given attending to the emotional needs of long-term or terminally ill patients in a busy public hospital in South Africa.

Over the years I developed my counselling skills as complementary to my nursing, completing a Certificate in Basic Counselling and studies in Logotherapy (meaning-centred counselling) through the University of South Africa, while maintaining an Affiliate membership of the Psychological Society of South Africa.

In 2005, I had the privilege of presenting a brief paper, Logotherapy – an Ecumenical Counselling Approach to Spirituality for Nurses, at the International Palliative Care Conference, Palliative Care: Mind, Body, Spirit, held in Cape Town, South Africa.

My Master of Psychotherapy and Counselling through Western Sydney University, emersed me in a Rogerian Person-centred approach to counselling which has been my approach since my earliest formal training in 2002. I am able to bring some forty years of experience walking alongside and being present to those I have encountered facing health challenges, terminal illness, depression, suicidal ideation, and other challenges.