Sinmarie Pieterse -Educational Psychologist

Sinmarie Pieterse with more than 25 years’ experience

About Me

I hold a Masters degree in Educational Psychology (University of Pretoria) and is a registered Educational Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (PS 0040223). I have twenty four years of experience in the field of child psychology, assessment (educational and emotional), psychotherapy, parental guidance and career guidance.

I started my career at the University of Johannesburg’s Institute for Child and Parental Guidance in 1993. Psychological assessments, career guidance, psychotherapy, counselling and parental guidance were part of the services offered to parents and their children. Thereafter I worked at Gauteng’s Educational Aid Centres as an educational specialist.

In 1997 I worked as a school psychologist at Sonitus School for the Hard of Hearing. I locumed at Procare, an organization for social workers and psychologists in private practice, where I mainly worked therapeutically with sexually abused girls and children who went through a divorce and did hypnotherapy with teenagers and adults.

My services include Hypnotherapy, Play Therapy, Assessments (Scholastic/Emotional) and Career Guidance

Therapy & Counselling

Heal, discover and gain from psychotherapy. I offer play, adolescent therapy as well as individual adult guidance

Significant Hypnotherapy

The mind has the power within it to create healing and wellness. Through hypnosis I am able to help with many issues

Assessments

As assessment can be done for various reasons

• Concessions assessment
• Determining the emotional wellbeing
• Due to behaviour problems of a child
• Scholastic levels
• Developmental levels
• School readiness assessments
• Identifying learning problems
• Neurological problems
• If there is ADHD or ADD etc

Therapy & Counselling

• Children
• Adolescents
• Individual Adult Psychotherapy
• Abuse and Neglect
• Trauma

Hypnotherapy

• Fears, anxiety, and Post-trauma anxiety, Grief and Loss
• Depression, Anger, Stress, Sleep Disorders
• Business
• Personal Issues