A variety of maladaptive syndromes which have severe anxiety (otherwise a common response to stress) as the dominant disturbance characterised by intense, excessive and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations.
Excessive and prolonged use of substances of addictive nature that has caused social and/ or occupational dysfunction.
Personality Disorder, the essential features of which are deeply ingrained, enduring, maladaptive patterns of relating to, thinking about and perceiving the environment that are extreme to the point where they cause personal, social and occupational impairment.
Addresses issues of marital conflict, adjustment issues and issues of abuse.
Mood Disorder indicates emotional state that portray mood that is distorted or inconsitent with one’s circumstances and interferes with the ability to function. One may be Depressed, mood state characterised by a sense of inadequacy, a feeling of despondency, decreased activity or reactivity, pessimism, sadness, hopelessness and suicidal thoughts, or may have periods of depression alternating with being excessively happy (mania).
Career Counselling is a process which enables people to recognise and utilise their resources to make career-related decisions and manage career-related issues.
Trauma and abuse Counselling helps you to identify and come to terms with feelings and emotions you may experience during or after a traumatic event. Trauma can involve single incidents such as a rape, being involved in a natural disaster, witnessing painful deaths etc. Trauma can also be repeated and enduring emotional distress over a long period of time such as childhood neglect.
A wide spectrum of techniques and psychotherapies aimed at controlling a person's level of stress especially chronic stress usually for with the purpose of improving everyday functioning.
A psycho-therapeutic program purposed to prevent and/or control anger by deploying anger effectively.
A developmental disorder characterised by difficulties with social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behaviour.
Also known as Learning disabilities, are an umbrella term for a wide variety of learning problems, like reading, writing or mathematics.
The significant difficulty in adjusting or coping with a compelling psychosocial stressor. The response to such stressors involves intense manifestation of else ways normal emotional and behavioural response causing marked distress, preoccupation with the stressor and its consequences, and functional impairment.
Child psychotherapy is child focused clinical practice which attempts to address psychological issues and psychological aspects of illness, injury, and the promotion of mental health in children and adolescents.
Life Pastels is a psychological wellness clinic with the purpose to serve with compassion and swill to assist