Eating Disorders Therapists in Port Elizabeth
Hi, my name is Babalwa, I am a community counselling psychologist who works with clients that are going through personal and life challenges such as grief, anxiety and depression. I am experienced in working with individuals throughout the different stages of life, with the aim of facilitating a process of awareness and healing.
Hi, my name is Babalwa, I am a community counselling psychologist who works with clients that are going through personal and life challenges such as grief, anxiety and depression. I am experienced in working with individuals throughout the different stages of life, with the aim of facilitating a process of awareness and healing.
My work focuses on support, insight and deep emotional change. We engage in a process that aims to manage your difficulties and achieve a higher level of emotional development.
My approach focuses on the in-depth understanding of your psychological functioning, as well as the provision of a relationship that facilitates growth and healing of wounds.
Challenging existing attitudes, beliefs or behaviours that interfere with growth is also a feature. This style of therapy emphasizes depth. For best results, view it as a long term investment into your growth.
My work focuses on support, insight and deep emotional change. We engage in a process that aims to manage your difficulties and achieve a higher level of emotional development.
My approach focuses on the in-depth understanding of your psychological functioning, as well as the provision of a relationship that facilitates growth and healing of wounds.
Challenging existing attitudes, beliefs or behaviours that interfere with growth is also a feature. This style of therapy emphasizes depth. For best results, view it as a long term investment into your growth.
Only perfection can judge, and nobody is perfect.
My goal is not only to assist my clients to manage their struggles but to thrive—building a strong sense of identity, purpose, and self-belief. I offer a space where people feel heard, understood, and empowered to create meaningful, balanced lives.
Only perfection can judge, and nobody is perfect.
My goal is not only to assist my clients to manage their struggles but to thrive—building a strong sense of identity, purpose, and self-belief. I offer a space where people feel heard, understood, and empowered to create meaningful, balanced lives.
I work with couples, adults, and adolescents navigating trauma, relationships, and life transitions such as relocating abroad, becoming a parent, or changing careers. Sessions are held online, or in-person in Emmarentia Johannesburg. Together we uncover the stories shaping your experiences, trace their roots, and gently reshape them — or create new ones — so you can face challenges with greater strength, insight, and flexibility. My clients recognise that lasting change emerges through honest reflection, imagination and embodied integration.
I work with couples, adults, and adolescents navigating trauma, relationships, and life transitions such as relocating abroad, becoming a parent, or changing careers. Sessions are held online, or in-person in Emmarentia Johannesburg. Together we uncover the stories shaping your experiences, trace their roots, and gently reshape them — or create new ones — so you can face challenges with greater strength, insight, and flexibility. My clients recognise that lasting change emerges through honest reflection, imagination and embodied integration.
Welcome!
As a woman, I get how complex life can be. My aim is to provide quality, affordable, and flexible sessions for all women. I work best with those who are ready to invest in themselves and their mental health, explore different avenues of healing, have difficult conversations, and take meaningful steps toward lasting change.
Healing isn’t always easy; it takes strength, vulnerability, and commitment. But, together, it can be a beautiful experience. I adopt a gentle but structured and guided approach by using exercises and personalized resources to support your unique journey, leading to a healthier and happier you.
Welcome!
As a woman, I get how complex life can be. My aim is to provide quality, affordable, and flexible sessions for all women. I work best with those who are ready to invest in themselves and their mental health, explore different avenues of healing, have difficult conversations, and take meaningful steps toward lasting change.
Healing isn’t always easy; it takes strength, vulnerability, and commitment. But, together, it can be a beautiful experience. I adopt a gentle but structured and guided approach by using exercises and personalized resources to support your unique journey, leading to a healthier and happier you.
More Therapists Nearby
I am a registered Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Walmer, Gqeberha. I specialise in working with adults and adolescents in individual psychotherapy, from a psychodynamic perspective. Psychodynamic therapy is a therapy approach that helps a person to understand and resolve the problems that they are experiencing by developing insight into their inner world and increasing awareness of how our feelings, thoughts and behaviour influence our past and present relationships, with ourselves and others.
I am a registered Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Walmer, Gqeberha. I specialise in working with adults and adolescents in individual psychotherapy, from a psychodynamic perspective. Psychodynamic therapy is a therapy approach that helps a person to understand and resolve the problems that they are experiencing by developing insight into their inner world and increasing awareness of how our feelings, thoughts and behaviour influence our past and present relationships, with ourselves and others.
Liska offers a unique service across the Business Coaching and Mental Health space. Her work is supported by more than 15 years of diverse training and experience in Organizational and Occupational Psychology, Business Coaching, as well as Private Outpatients Psychotherapy and Mental Health Management. Liska is also a qualified Integrative Enneagram Practitioner. Services include: Business Coaching, Individual Psychotherapy for Adults and Adolescents; Couples Therapy and Marriage Preparation; Team or Individual Coaching; Corporate Mental Health Advisory and Organisational Wellness Strategy and Implementation.
Liska offers a unique service across the Business Coaching and Mental Health space. Her work is supported by more than 15 years of diverse training and experience in Organizational and Occupational Psychology, Business Coaching, as well as Private Outpatients Psychotherapy and Mental Health Management. Liska is also a qualified Integrative Enneagram Practitioner. Services include: Business Coaching, Individual Psychotherapy for Adults and Adolescents; Couples Therapy and Marriage Preparation; Team or Individual Coaching; Corporate Mental Health Advisory and Organisational Wellness Strategy and Implementation.
Online Therapists
The people I work with most often come carrying something they've been carrying for a long time. Sometimes it's trauma - a single event, or the slower kind that builds over years of difficult relationships, chronic stress, or grief that never fully resolved. Sometimes it's anxiety that's become so familiar it just feels like personality. Sometimes it's depression that nobody around them has noticed, because they're still showing up and getting things done. I see clients in person in Jeffreys Bay and online across South Africa and internationally.
The people I work with most often come carrying something they've been carrying for a long time. Sometimes it's trauma - a single event, or the slower kind that builds over years of difficult relationships, chronic stress, or grief that never fully resolved. Sometimes it's anxiety that's become so familiar it just feels like personality. Sometimes it's depression that nobody around them has noticed, because they're still showing up and getting things done. I see clients in person in Jeffreys Bay and online across South Africa and internationally.
Nearby Searches for Port Elizabeth
See More Counsellors Eating Disorders Counsellors
What happens in therapy for eating disorders?
In therapy for eating disorders, patients typically describe their eating and exercise behaviours, their patterns of eating in relation to stress, their beliefs about their body, the ways their eating behaviour affects their relationships, and their desire (or lack of it) to change. Such information helps the therapist understand the origins of the disorder and the role it plays in the patient’s life, important for guiding treatment. Attitudes and feelings about food and eating, body weight, and physical appearance are common topics of discussion throughout treatment.
What therapy types help with eating disorders?
Once any acute medical or psychiatric emergency is resolved, psychoactive medication is often prescribed, requiring the supervision of a psychiatrist. In addition, patients receive some form of nutritional counselling along with one or more forms of psychotherapy. For adolescents, family-based treatment is empirically validated and considered the first line of treatment; parents and their children meet weekly with a clinician as the adults are coached on how to nourish and psychologically support the young patient. Adults typically receive some form of individual psychotherapy, intended to resolve the cognitive and behavioural disturbances that underlie the disorder and to relieve the mood disturbances that accompany it. In addition, patients may also be helped by group therapy.
What is the goal of therapy for eating disorders?
The most immediate goal of treatment for eating disorders is to save the life of people who are on a path of starving themselves to death or engaging in eating patterns that are doing irreparable physical harm to their body. Once the acute medical danger is past, therapy is required to understand the nature of the disordered eating and/or exercise patterns, establish healthy eating behaviour, and to tackle the many erroneous beliefs and distorted self-perceptions that underlie eating disorders and continue to pose a threat to health and life. Therapy also addresses the impaired mood that not only accompanies eating disorders but intensifies the danger to health and life.
What are the limitations of therapy for eating disorders?
Therapy can be very helpful for eating disorders—but that can happen only after people recognise they have a condition that must be treated. Especially with anorexia, the distortions in self-image that accompany the disorder can keep people from acknowledging they have a problem. Individuals may in fact see their eating disorder as a badge of self-control. Those with binge-eating disorder may feel too ashamed to seek help. Therapy cannot help those who do not avail themselves of it.
How long does therapy last for eating disorders?
Because of their complexity, recovery from eating disorders is usually a long-term process—measured in months and years— often marked by setbacks and relapse. Some form of help, such as individual or group therapy, may be advisable for much of that time. It is a general rule of thumb that the longer the illness has endured and the dysregulated eating behaviour has taken root, the longer treatment is likely to be needed.