SPECIALISED SERVICES
Paarl Practice offers a range of specialized services with professionals that is highly qualified and have years of experience to deliver the best service to their clients or patients. Our team consists of a Psychiatrist, a Developmental Paediatrician, 6 Psychologists, an Industrial Psychologist and a Registered Dietician.
The development and emotional growth of the child and his or her family and individual is at the basis of our ethos.
THERAPY
Therapy is mainly administered by either a Clinical, Counselling or Educational Psychologist. The main focus of therapy is on the emotional well-being of the individual and successful adaptation to his or her environment. This can entail medication prescribed by a Psychiatrist who works very closely with the Psychologist in
a holistic approach towards the client/patient’s mental well-being.
TRAUMA INTERVENTION
Trauma is specifically an event that overwhelms the central nervous system, altering the way we process and recall memories. Trauma is not the story of something that happened back then, it is the current imprint of that pain, horror and fear living inside people. There is also a difference between single incident trauma and the impact of relationship trauma over a period of time.
Often, talk therapy alone is not effective enough to treat trauma…
TRAUMA INTERVENTION
Trauma is specifically an event that overwhelms the central nervous system, altering the way we process and recall memories.
Trauma is not the story of something that happened back then, it is the current imprint of that pain, horror and fear living inside people. There is also a difference between single incident trauma and the impact of relationship trauma over a period of time.
Often, talk therapy alone is not effective enough to treat trauma, and it needs specific mind/body therapies like EMDR {Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy} EMDR is currently the most researched form of therapy for trauma treatment. Dr Bessel van der Kolk, in his book “ The body keeps the score” Brain, mind and body in the treatment of Trauma, transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring- specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control and trust. He shows how this can be reactivated and reprocessed (healing body and mind) through innovative treatments like EMDR. Trauma work today integrates developmental,neurobiological,psychodynamic and interpersonal psychology, through the impact of research in the field of neuroscience. We all processes a traumatic event differently because we all face them through the lens of prior experiences in our lives.
Through eg EMDR, you can transform this deeply, distressing or disturbing experience/s of your life and heal this on many levels.
Compiled by Braam Beetge: Trained through the EMDR Institute [USA] in EMDR and Traumatology.
CHILDREN’S THERAPY
In Paarl Practice children’s therapy is seen as a specialist field administered by Psychologists who specializes in the treatment of children with emotional and behavioural problems and who struggles to adapt to their environment.
A variety of treatment methods are used always creating a safe and protected space for the child as client.
