colleen thiel's

clinical services
 

I provide assessments for children, adolescents and adults for various purposes, depending on the reason for referral.

Service

Clinical Assessment

I provide assessments for children, adolescents and adults for various purposes, depending on the reason for referral.  These assessments include educational, career guidance assessments, as well as clinical assessments.  Clinical assessments are tailored to each individual’s specific needs.  Clinical assessments include:
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Cognitive (intellectual quotient) functioning
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Perceptual and emotional functioning
Neuropsychological functioning
Scholastic functioning
Assessment involves clinical interview, psychological testing, evaluation and diagnosis.  This process guides treatment as it is not always immediately clear what a client’s underlying difficulties are.  I conduct assessments for a number of problems, including, but not exclusive to the following examples:

  • Children experiencing difficulty in school
  • Individuals facing problems in the workplace
  • Those experiencing interpersonal difficulties
  • Students struggling with subject or career choices
  • Individuals struggling with concentration and/or memory difficulties
  • Clients presenting with symptoms of depression and/or anxiety
  • Those needing intelligence and neuropsychological testing to assess their functioning
  • Grade 11 and 12 students seeking tertiary education selection and students wanting to make course changes at university/college

Service

Psychotherapy

CHILDREN

  • Trauma
  • Separation anxiety
  • Behavioural difficulties relating to Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Bereavement
  • Conduct and Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Behavioural Therapy and Child-Centred Therapy are used and tailored according to the child’s individual needs and responses.  Art therapy is used to assist children to visually express and record experiences, perceptions, feelings and imagination.

Adolescents

  • Eating Disorders
  • Self-harm/mutilation
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Bereavement
  • Parental separation/divorce
  • Trauma
  • Major life changes
  • Psycho-education for sexual health

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Behavioural Therapy and Person-Centred Therapy are used and tailored according to the adolescent’s individual needs and responses.

Adults (face-to-face & online)

  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Stress
  • Relationship difficulties
  • Difficulties relating to sexual health
  • Divorce
  • Parental guidance
  • Bereavement
  • Adjustment difficulties
  • Eating disorders
  • Pain management

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Behavioural Therapy and Person-Centred Therapy are integrated to meet each individual or couple’s needs.

online therapy

Cyber relationships are common place and couples in long distance relationships often experience unique challenges relating to communication and coping with physical distance.  I offer online therapy that meets you and your partner where you are.  Please use the specific contact details on the Contact Page if you’d like to make an appointment for Online Therapy.

Testimonials

Two Stories

“I was a cancer patient in remission for two months when I first consulted with Colleen Thiel.  I was broken, trying to cope with my new life, depressed and unable to figure out what was happening to me.  I suffered anxiety attacks at night and felt completely down.

Today I am back to being myself, full of life and ready to take on the world.  Colleen found a way of getting me through it and back up on my feet again.  She is a caring and professional person and definitely my choice of psychologist should I require one again.”

Sarah

47 years old

“Thank you very much for the counselling sessions you provided to my daughter and I.  It was a new experience for her at such a young age to speak to someone other than mommy and to realize that she counts as a person, that her feelings matter and she is valued.  The sessions definitely made an impact on her and she can deal better with similar situations when she is faced with them. It also equipped me as a single parent and made me doubt myself less.  It is a process, and Colleen made it so much easier to deal with our circumstances and we are so grateful for that gift.”  
Louise

43 years old

PLease KNOW

This is a safe space for you

With years of experience in assessment and treatment, I have come to practice many of my own researched techniques to manage the stress of modern day living.  I have practiced mindfulness-based stress reduction to alleviate stress and difficulty in sleeping. I also follow the guidelines of cognitive-behavioural therapy in my own life to maintain my own personal balance. I prefer practicing techniques I use in psychotherapy as I am motivated by results.

 

 My approach as a psychotherapist could be summarised by the following Carl R. Rogers quote: “Before every session, I take a moment to remember my humanity.  There is no experience that this man has that I cannot share with him, no fear that I cannot understand, no suffering that I cannot care about, because I too am human.”

PLease KNOW

This is a safe space for you

With years of experience in assessment and treatment, I have come to practice many of my own researched techniques to manage the stress of modern day living.  I have practiced mindfulness-based stress reduction to alleviate stress and difficulty in sleeping. I also follow the guidelines of cognitive-behavioural therapy in my own life to maintain my own personal balance. I prefer practicing techniques I use in psychotherapy as I am motivated by results.

 

 My approach as a psychotherapist could be summarised by the following Carl R. Rogers quote: “Before every session, I take a moment to remember my humanity.  There is no experience that this man has that I cannot share with him, no fear that I cannot understand, no suffering that I cannot care about, because I too am human.”

Get In Touch

suite 112
first floor
heritaGe house
20 dreyer street claremont

tel
021 674 0509

email
admin@psychologymatters.co.za

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