ANIZE VAN ZYL

Therapy is very personal…therefore also hard to define. I believe therapy is what you make of it. As a therapist I do not see myself as the expert, but rather as the client’s companion on his/her road to self-discovery, a companion that is able to offer a different perception and a safe space in which to explore various possibilities.

I do not believe that someone is the problem but rather that he/she has a problem and that we need to find a way to effectively deal with this problem. In this, the problem is separated from the person and dealt with in such a way that its influence is reduced. Therapy is about the stories of people’s lives and is based on the idea that problems are constructed in social, cultural and political contexts. This is therefore also speaks to ‘postmodernism’ in which there is no one objective ‘truth’ and that there are multiple possible interpretations of any event. Using this framework I apply different techniques that are customized to each unique person who comes to me for help.