Our Services

Occupational Therapy (OT) with Nicky isn’t just about addressing immediate challenges; it’s about fostering a deeper understanding of yourself or your child and nurturing greater insight into the interplay between mind, body and environment. Through a blend of techniques, Nicky coaches toward an “I can” mindset  fostering a more constructive self-perception and building tools for resilience.

With the desire to make support affordable and available, sessions are structured in sets of three. This provides opportunity to cultivate rapport, gain insight into individual needs, and ensure a focused, goal-oriented approach — all while respecting financial considerations.

With children, Nicky adopts a sensory and trauma-informed approach, utilizing play-based methods to bolster self-esteem and resilience.

For adolescents and adults, Nicky leverages counseling and coaching skills, along with tools like the Sensory Matrix, the Kawa Resilience Model and Safe and Sound Protocol to build resources, enhance participation in daily tasks and infuse joy into daily experiences.

Nicky’s Toolbox includes…

Sensory Matrix™ process helps you to understand yourself better by getting to know your sensory systems. Being empowered with these insights can help to improve wellbeing and productivity at work or school and can improve relationships.

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Environmental Assessment in your home, school, or workplace serves as a tool for pinpointing environmental factors that may be hindering your ability to manage daily tasks effectively. By first identifying sensory, physical, and socio-emotional needs and functional challenges, followed by an in-person visit, we can collaboratively devise strategies to adapt the environment, or how it is used, to alleviate your stressors.

This intervention is designed to align with your resources and is aimed at uncovering impactful triggers and co-creating solutions that could significantly enhance your quality of life.

Suitable for anyone struggling with functioning at home, school or work.

Neda creates a safe, nurturing and creative environment that helps children make sense of their past and develop healthier coping mechanisms for the future. Through play, children reenact and play out challenging experiences as a way of processing them. This process can lead to a reduction in anxiety and an improvement in self-esteem.

Through play, children learn more appropriate ways to manage relationships and conflicts, enhancing their social skills and overall well-being. The regularity of Play Therapy sessions, taking place at the same time and in the same room, helps establish a routine that children can rely on and is essential for building trust.

Neda’s Toolbox includes…

Clinical Supervision: Neda offers creative supervision to Play Therapists in South Africa and abroad. Using a range of tools  such as symbols, art, writing, role play, and sandplay, she empowers supervisees to analyse their client work, fostering reflection and honing their professional skills.

Neda’s aim is to cultivate a nurturing and innovative learning environment, where supervisees feel secure to explore their client cases while cultivating their confidence as play therapists. Supervisees are supported with finding their own solutions while receiving guidance on theoretical concepts and ethical complexities.

Suitable for trainee or qualified Play Therapists.

Marschak Assessment Method (MIM) is a fun and engaging family assessment tool designed to identify strengths and areas of growth in family dynamics. The caregiver and child, or the entire family, are recorded on video responding to written prompts and engaging in playful activities. The video provides a powerful observation and self-reflection tool which gets unpacked in a follow-up feedback session. MIM Assessments can be offered as stand-alone, or as a way of directing TheraPlay.

Theraplay® is a child and family therapy that focuses on supporting a child’s positive behavioural and emotional responses through the parent-child relationship. Theraplay helps the child experience previously difficult interactions in new ways. It helps overcome fear, increase trust and create positive change in the child’s sense of self.

Suitable for families with children of all ages.

Parent Coaching offers caregivers a deeply reflective space to evaluate the daily interactions they have with their children, as well as the quality of their relationship. The experience of parenthood can often bring to the surface emotional and relational struggles that we need to become conscious of, if we are to avoid repeating hurtful patterns from the past. Without the right help, this can put strain on the family and interfere with optimal functioning.

Bev’s approach is to come alongside caregivers and parents guiding them as they integrate their own childhood experiences. Trauma sensitive and attachment informed, Bev helps caregivers recognise and nurture their own unmet needs while also helping them recognise their strengths. 

Mindfulness, breathing tools, visualisation and gentle movement form part of the sessions as guided by the parent. The practice of becoming present and grounded in the here and now are integral to the process of getting comfortable with feelings that may not have been allowed when we were young. 

The capacity to tolerate emotions and stay anchored are powerful tools when it comes to helping children regulate and develop a trusting relationship in which they view the caregivers as a resource. The ability to maintain loving and kind psychological boundaries is a key part of the process. 

As caregivers get more comfortable with themselves and in their own skin, the more  readily and emotionally available they are for their family.

Bev’s Toolbox includes…

Circle of Security Parenting® (COSP) is an attachment and evidence-based 8 week programme focused on building secure caregiver-child relationships. It empowers caregivers in their capacity to offer emotional closeness as well as supporting healthy independence. By enhancing self-awareness, caregivers are able to support their child’s emotional security, resilience and healthy attachment throughout life.

COSP can be delivered to groups, couples or individuals with each session bringing a deeper understanding of attachment needs, often hidden in behaviours. COSP is delivered and can be adapted to various contexts and formats including 60min online sessions during the working day to more in-depth 2 hour sessions with parents or professionals working with children.

Suitable for all caregivers and professionals working with young children.

Paula’s BodyTalk sessions create the much needed environment that supports tapping into the body’s natural capacity to restore and self-heal.

BodyTalk is an empowering, complementary, healthcare system that promotes the kind of physical, mental and emotional wellbeing that is conducive to growing resilience. This cutting-edge system offers support with stress, anxiety, grief and depression, chronic and acute pain, insomnia, chronic illness and so much more.

Paula is a gentle, intuitive practitioner, passionate about supporting her clients in a real and meaningful way on their healing journey.

During a one hour session, clients are given the opportunity to be still, as they lie down restfully on a therapy bed and allow their body to communicate with the help of Neuromuscular Biofeedback. Paula uses a range of breathing techniques, guided visualisations and, most importantly, BodyTalk’s unique set of nurturing tapping techniques during her sessions.

Remote BodyTalk sessions are just as powerful and effective as in-person sessions, allowing those with very busy schedules and those outside of Cape Town, the perfect opportunity to still receive the benefits.

Paula’s Toolbox includes…

45-60 min BodyTalk Sessions

In person or remote

A two session package is highly recommended.

30-45 min Self Regulation Tools sessions

A range of easy to use Breathing and Tapping techniques are taught in a relaxed and creative environment. Once embedded into a daily routine, these simple yet powerful self-regulation tools become life changing.

Suitable for every age and stage. Sessions are tailored to suit younger clients who aren’t able to lie quietly for an extended period of time.