Delia Kretzmann
Cape Town
Cape Town
I am registered counsellor and psychometrist, with 12 years’ experience working with children and adults. Currently employed by the Life Matters Foundation (LMF) www.lifemattersfoundation.org. I am the school counsellor at Sinai Academy and I run my own private practice in Edgemead, Cape Town.
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What do you love most about your job?
I love getting to know my clients on a real level. The fact that clients are able to get vulnerable and leave my session knowing and liking themselves a little better. Furthermore, I feel that there is no greater work than that which is done on yourself.
What inspired you to start your own business?
I wanted to create my own space to inspire others to keep pushing through to achieve their dreams.
Why should our clients choose you?
I offer a safe and non-judgemental environment where children, adolescences and adults can work on their mental health or educational challenges. I specialise in career guidance and psychological support, as well as working with addictive behaviours. I use an holistic approach that differs according to a person’s unique needs. Psychological support can be both preventative and curative. One cannot underestimate the value of investing in oneself.
Can you provide your services online or remotely? If so, please add details.
Yes. I do remote counselling through zoom. Clients will be contacted with their own personal link and password.
What changes have you made to keep your customers safe from Covid-19?
All clients and myself are to wear personal protective gear. Office and hands are sanitised at all intervals.
Counselling
-Healthy relationships
-Increased self-awareness, self-esteem and self-image
-Less anxiety
-Better ability to manage conflict and set boundaries
-Ability to find emotional balance (self-regulate)
-Increased self-confidence
-Trauma relief
-Stress relief
-Decrease in destructive behaviour
Career coaching
Career counselling /coaching is a method of guidance and advice giving that helps a person make informed decisions.
The world of work is not what it used to be. Learners have many career opportunities that are available to them. Career coaching techniques help one make decisions based on the person’s strengths, interests and abilities. Career guidance plays an important role to those who do not know what career direction to take.
Career assessments
In today’s world children, adolescence and even adults have a wide range of choices when it comes to the world of work. As parents we need to help our children navigate in a world that holds so many choices. Career assessments will facilitate a person in matching their strengths, interests, values, skills and inherit personality traits with careers to which they are best suited too.
What domains are evaluated in this assessment
· Personality
· Aptitude
· Interests related to the world of work
· Values
· Career mapping
· Career coaching/ counselling
Psychoeducational assessments
Psychoeducational assessments concern the testing of a learner’s underlying cognitive processes and how these impact on the individual’s educational, social and emotional well-being. This type of assessments is usually only administered with a recommendation or referral. Learner’s who portray barriers to learning and those who struggle to meet the school system requirements are often assessed.
Time and time again parents are at a loss of where to start when it comes to helping their child. Do you go the remedial, occupational, counselling or medical route? Psychoeducational assessments give the learner an unique learning profile and provide an in-depth understanding of their educational and learning abilities. The psychometric assessment battery will differ according to the reason for referral and grade that the learner is in. School readiness evaluations, identification of learning barriers, admission requirements for special-needs schools and exam concessions can be assessed. The assessments are in-line with the requirements set by the Department of Education.
Addiction counselling and support
The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines Addiction or Dependence Disorder as a physiological, behavioural, and cognitive phenomena in which, the use of a substance, behaviour or person takes on a much higher priority for the individual than other behaviours that once had greater value. An individual begins to lose control over their intake, behavioural action, frequency and termination of the addictive stimulus. Types of stimulus may include nicotine, self-harm, co-dependency, alcohol, sex, gaming, social media, gambling, eating/ under-eating, prescription or recreational drugs. Once a person becomes a full blown addict then it is a very difficult, expensive and painful process of rehabilitation. An addict will often need long-term treatment at an institution and a commitment to a 12 step program.
Risk factors may include a genetic predisposition (addiction in the family), environmental traumas, low self-esteem, drug sensitivity, low impulse control (unmanaged ADHD), mental illnesses and cultural exposure. My passion is to help adolescence and families detect the early signs of addictive behaviour and deal with it before it becomes uncontrollable.
Remember that not every teenager will need counselling. Only when the behaviour becomes unmanageable and it begins to affect their daily functioning.
