Rani Prinsloo

Clinical Psychologist in Tyger Valley, Northern Suburbs, Cape Town

BSc Human Physiology, Genetics and Psychology (UP);
BSocSci Honours Psychology (UP); MA Clinical Psychology (UP)

Interests

Individual Therapy - Adolescents and Adults

I work with adolescents and adults facing a wide range of various difficulties or challenges. These include: depression, anxiety, bipolar mood disorder, eating disorders, being under stress, relational difficulties, loss and bereavement,  various forms of trauma, abuse, self harming behaviour, identity and sexuality issues, addiction, difficulty adjusting etc.  I furthermore work with people who want to achieve greater emotional and personal growth, or gain deeper self insight and awareness. 

Individual Therapy – Children

Children often show in their behaviour what they cannot express with their words. Thus children struggling with various underlying emotional issues often show this through bedwetting, soiling their clothes, becoming difficult and defiant, refusing to talk or engage, withdrawing, being irritable, being tearful, throwing tantrums etc. I provide a setting where through play the child and I can work through these issues, resulting in a change in behaviour. I also offer parent guidance.

Couple and Family Therapy

I work with couples and families needing assistance, either in working through various specific issues they are struggling with, or to deepen and strengthen relationships.

Approach

I aim at creating a safe, professional, therapeutic relationship, where together with the therapist,  a person, couple or family can openly work through their thoughts, emotions, behaviours and difficulties.  I mainly work from a psychodynamic approach. Rather than only focussing on symptom relief, this approach aims at working with core underlying issues, and aims for deep, lasting change.

About the therapist

I am a registered Clinical Psychologist, currently in private practice in Tyger Valley, Northern Suburbs, Cape Town. I did my training at the University of Pretoria in Gauteng. I have previously worked with children, adolescents and adults at a psychiatric hospital, and also worked for a specialist rehabilitation hospital. I am registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa as an Independent Practitioner, and with the Board of Health Funders. I place a high value on my own continuous personal and professional development. I am fluent in Afrikaans and English.

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Belangstelling

Individuele Terapie - Tieners en Volwassenes

Ek werk met tieners en volwassenes wat ‘n wye verskeidenheid van problem en uitdagings beleef. Dit sluit in: depressie, angs, bipolêre gemoedsversteuring, eet steurnisse, spanning, verhoudingsprobleme, verlies en rou, trauma, mishandeling, kwessies rondom identiteit en seksualiteit, selfvernietigende- of destruksiewe gedrag, verslawing en afhanklikheid, aanpassingsprobleme ens. Ek werk ook graag met mense wat streef na emosionele en persoonlik groei, of wat na ‘n verdieping in selfkennis of insig soek.

Individuele Terapie - Kinders

Kinders wys dikwels deur hul gedra wat nie vir hulle moontlik is om andersin te kommunikeer nie. Dus sal kinders met ‘n verskeidenheid van onderliggende emosionele problem dit wys deur bed nat te maak, hul klere vuil te maak, moeilik en opstandig te wees, weier om te praat, begin terug trek, geiriteerd wees, tranerig wees, ens. Ek skep ‘n milieu  waar die kind deur middel van spel  hierdie kwessies kan deurwerk, wat dan  lei tot gedragsverandering. Ek verskaf ook ouerleiding.

Verhoudings en Familie Terapie

Ek werk met pare en families wat bystand nodig het om deur spesifieke kwessies te werk waarmee hulle sukkel, of wat  streef na ‘n verdieping in hulle verhoudings.   

Benadering

Ek streef daarna om ‘n veilige, professionele, terapeutise verhouding te skep. Saam met die terapeut, kan die persoon, paar of familie openlik met hulle emosies, gedagtes, gedrag en problem werk. Ek werk uit ‘n psigodinamiese raamwerk. So benadering fokus nie net op simptoomverligting nie, maar werk met kern onderliggende kwessies om diep, langdurende verandering te bewerkstellig. 

Oor die terapeut

Ek is ‘n gerigestreerde Kliniese Sielkundige in privaat praktyk in Tyger Vallei, Noordelike Voorstede, Kaapstad. Ek het opleiding by die Universiteit van Pretoria ondergaan. Ek het voorheen met kinders, tieners en volwassenes by ‘n psigiatriese hospitaal gewerk, asook by ‘n gespesialiseerde rehabilitasie hospitaal. Ek is by die ‘Health Professions Council of South Africa’  gerigestreer as ‘n onafhanklike praktiseerder, as ook by die  ‘Board of Health Funders’. Ek is tweetalig en werk ewe gemaklik in beide Afrikaans of Engels.  Ek stel my eie deurlopende persoonlike en professionele ontwikkeling hoog op prys.

PS # 0106356
PR # 0366013