My history:

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I specialized in Child and Family Welfare in my honors year and worked mostly in this field for the first years of my career. I have over 25 years of professional social work experience.

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My career began in Kokstad, South Africa at Child Welfare, where I worked primarily with an impoverished community, doing mostly child protection work. In my following position at the Johannesburg Children's Home we took care of children in need of protection and residential  care. I worked with abandonment, physical and sexual abuse, neglect, special need,  including family conferences and future planning for these children, as well as developing and training in parenting and child care skills. 

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I also worked part time for FAMSA (Family life Center) doing individual counselling, couple counselling, divorce mediation and various training.

 

I worked abroad for the United Nations Interim government in East Timor for 2 years. This was a challenging but immensely rewarding period being part of the team setting up the department of social services for this newly independent country. 

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Following this I found placement at a corporate employee well-being company (ICAS) where I stayed for twelve years. I started as a telephone counselor and moved to being a case consultant, where I worked in different areas including trauma, risk and managerial consultation. Concurrently, ICAS contracted me to counsel on-site doing face to face counselling at Standard Bank, Vodacom, Faurecia and Discovery Health, and trauma debriefings on a regular basis at different companies when needed.

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Currently I run a private practice full time for over five years.

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I am a highly motivated counselor, with an impressive success rate at helping people from all walks of life with many varied psycho-social conditions and problems.

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