Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD) Therapists in Hout Bay
I work especially in the treatment of anxiety disorders ( OCD, social phobia, and panic attacks), chronic depression, and complex PTSD.
I am a psychodynamic and behavioural therapist. This means that I work to create and hold a space for thinking and feeling through experiences, difficulties, contradictions, losses, and hopes; while drawing on behavioral change interventions for facilitating change.
I work especially in the treatment of anxiety disorders ( OCD, social phobia, and panic attacks), chronic depression, and complex PTSD.
I am a psychodynamic and behavioural therapist. This means that I work to create and hold a space for thinking and feeling through experiences, difficulties, contradictions, losses, and hopes; while drawing on behavioral change interventions for facilitating change.
A compassionate therapist, who understands that one of the most difficult and longest journeys in life, is from the head to the heart. In my practice, I work with individuals from all walks of life and all developmental phases. I work with trauma, addiction & relapse, family restructuring & parenting, marriage & life phase adjustment, psychological distress & behavioural adjustment etc. As a scientist I root my practice and therapy in evidence based practice and I am continuously learning new techniques to serve my patients best. I am available ONLINE to gently journey with you to wholeness and wholehearted living. Bon Voyage!
A compassionate therapist, who understands that one of the most difficult and longest journeys in life, is from the head to the heart. In my practice, I work with individuals from all walks of life and all developmental phases. I work with trauma, addiction & relapse, family restructuring & parenting, marriage & life phase adjustment, psychological distress & behavioural adjustment etc. As a scientist I root my practice and therapy in evidence based practice and I am continuously learning new techniques to serve my patients best. I am available ONLINE to gently journey with you to wholeness and wholehearted living. Bon Voyage!
Welcome to a space where your health and wellness are prioritized with care and expertise. Life’s challenges—whether you're feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or disconnected—can be daunting. But you don’t have to face them alone. I offer compassionate, results-driven in-person & online therapy tailored to your unique needs. No matter where you are in the world, I provide a safe, supportive environment where healing and growth are possible. Together, we’ll work on developing the emotional resilience you need to lead a more balanced, fulfilling life. Let’s take this journey towards well-being together.
Welcome to a space where your health and wellness are prioritized with care and expertise. Life’s challenges—whether you're feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or disconnected—can be daunting. But you don’t have to face them alone. I offer compassionate, results-driven in-person & online therapy tailored to your unique needs. No matter where you are in the world, I provide a safe, supportive environment where healing and growth are possible. Together, we’ll work on developing the emotional resilience you need to lead a more balanced, fulfilling life. Let’s take this journey towards well-being together.
Welcome to Evelyn Beneke Psychotherapy!
I would be honored to assist you on your journey to greater emotional stability.
I focus on individuals whether in crisis or transition. I treat anxious and depressed individuals as well as those in toxic relationships who struggle to escape emotional contamination. I specialize in couples therapy and work with you to identify the factors underlying your relationship clashes. Processing the underlying emotions and maladaptive coping strategies leads to a healthy emotional state and productive coping. I strive to make therapy pleasant and it goes without saying that it is a safe space!
Welcome to Evelyn Beneke Psychotherapy!
I would be honored to assist you on your journey to greater emotional stability.
I focus on individuals whether in crisis or transition. I treat anxious and depressed individuals as well as those in toxic relationships who struggle to escape emotional contamination. I specialize in couples therapy and work with you to identify the factors underlying your relationship clashes. Processing the underlying emotions and maladaptive coping strategies leads to a healthy emotional state and productive coping. I strive to make therapy pleasant and it goes without saying that it is a safe space!
I have experience in helping clients with challenges relating to depression, anxiety, trauma and grief - as symptoms of existing conditions, and/or as responses to circumstantial stress. I am also experienced in helping clients with the management of neurodivergent disorders (ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder). My approach pulls away from over analysis and rumination, towards figuring out how to sustainably feel and be better. This is accomplished by emphasising healthy thinking, health feeling and healthy behaving.
I have experience in helping clients with challenges relating to depression, anxiety, trauma and grief - as symptoms of existing conditions, and/or as responses to circumstantial stress. I am also experienced in helping clients with the management of neurodivergent disorders (ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder). My approach pulls away from over analysis and rumination, towards figuring out how to sustainably feel and be better. This is accomplished by emphasising healthy thinking, health feeling and healthy behaving.
My philosophy is that all of us have the necessary abilities to overcome any challenges in life with the right support. I offer an integrative approach to counselling that draws on Gestalt, existential and cognitive theories. I view counselling as a creative process of discovering the masterpiece in each client. I work within an interpersonal framework that places the relationship between the client and the therapist at the heart of the process.
My philosophy is that all of us have the necessary abilities to overcome any challenges in life with the right support. I offer an integrative approach to counselling that draws on Gestalt, existential and cognitive theories. I view counselling as a creative process of discovering the masterpiece in each client. I work within an interpersonal framework that places the relationship between the client and the therapist at the heart of the process.
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My practice is centered around supporting individuals through a variety of challenges including anxiety, depression, life changes, OCD-related issues, and body image concerns.
I aim to provide a supportive space for my clients where we can explore any challenges they are facing. My goal is for my clients to feel heard and understood, while also being empowered with new skills and strategies to deal with these challenges effectively.
My practice is centered around supporting individuals through a variety of challenges including anxiety, depression, life changes, OCD-related issues, and body image concerns.
I aim to provide a supportive space for my clients where we can explore any challenges they are facing. My goal is for my clients to feel heard and understood, while also being empowered with new skills and strategies to deal with these challenges effectively.
Life, from time to time, can become a struggle for all of us, and often we feel the desire to reach out for some understanding or companionship. However, we still live in an age where seeking support or help is often regarded as a sign of weakness. I believe the complete opposite. To seek out help and support in your darkest hours in order to better understand yourself and overcome your difficulties is a sign of true bravery and courage. By reaching out, you take the first courageous step toward healing, growth, and reclaiming your inner strength.
Life, from time to time, can become a struggle for all of us, and often we feel the desire to reach out for some understanding or companionship. However, we still live in an age where seeking support or help is often regarded as a sign of weakness. I believe the complete opposite. To seek out help and support in your darkest hours in order to better understand yourself and overcome your difficulties is a sign of true bravery and courage. By reaching out, you take the first courageous step toward healing, growth, and reclaiming your inner strength.
You may be self-aware and capable, but still feel trapped in anxiety, burnout, or repeating emotional patterns; therapy can help you shift what insight alone has not changed. I specialise in working with thoughtful, emotionally aware adults who understand their struggles yet still feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, or stuck in relationship patterns. Together, we explore the deeper drivers behind these experiences and work to shift them so you can regain emotional balance, confidence, and a greater sense of calm and control in your life.
You may be self-aware and capable, but still feel trapped in anxiety, burnout, or repeating emotional patterns; therapy can help you shift what insight alone has not changed. I specialise in working with thoughtful, emotionally aware adults who understand their struggles yet still feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, or stuck in relationship patterns. Together, we explore the deeper drivers behind these experiences and work to shift them so you can regain emotional balance, confidence, and a greater sense of calm and control in your life.
I work with adolescents and adults from a neuroaffirming, holistic, and integrative perspective. I recognise that every person’s life story, strengths, and challenges are unique. Therefore, therapy unfolds at your pace meeting you where you are.
I work with clients facing a wide range of challenges, including anxiety, emotional overwhelm, trauma, grief, behavioural difficulties, and life transitions. I also work with neurodiverse individuals, helping them explore their emotional and relational world while supporting self-advocacy, growth, regulation, and self-understanding.
I work with adolescents and adults from a neuroaffirming, holistic, and integrative perspective. I recognise that every person’s life story, strengths, and challenges are unique. Therefore, therapy unfolds at your pace meeting you where you are.
I work with clients facing a wide range of challenges, including anxiety, emotional overwhelm, trauma, grief, behavioural difficulties, and life transitions. I also work with neurodiverse individuals, helping them explore their emotional and relational world while supporting self-advocacy, growth, regulation, and self-understanding.
I offer psychoanalytical psychotherapy for individuals over 18.
I offer psychoanalytical psychotherapy for individuals over 18.
Welcome to The Mind Lab, where therapy meets curiosity, neuroscience, and practical change. I work with individuals who want to understand themselves more deeply, calm their overwhelmed nervous systems, and build emotional resilience that lasts. My approach combines analysis — understanding the “why” behind your patterns — with tools for change that help you shift the “how” in your everyday life. Drawing on Polyvagal Theory, I help clients recognise how the body holds experiences of trauma, stress, or relationship difficulties, and how learning to regulate the nervous system opens the door to clarity, connection, calm, and healing.
Welcome to The Mind Lab, where therapy meets curiosity, neuroscience, and practical change. I work with individuals who want to understand themselves more deeply, calm their overwhelmed nervous systems, and build emotional resilience that lasts. My approach combines analysis — understanding the “why” behind your patterns — with tools for change that help you shift the “how” in your everyday life. Drawing on Polyvagal Theory, I help clients recognise how the body holds experiences of trauma, stress, or relationship difficulties, and how learning to regulate the nervous system opens the door to clarity, connection, calm, and healing.
I listen to those in distress. We talk, explore, question, discuss and share. The space created permits insight, relief, catharsis, protest, acceptance, adaptation and options..... Psycho-sexual therapy is offered for people that present with problems of a sexual nature.
I listen to those in distress. We talk, explore, question, discuss and share. The space created permits insight, relief, catharsis, protest, acceptance, adaptation and options..... Psycho-sexual therapy is offered for people that present with problems of a sexual nature.
All of us at some point might need support to deal with the many challenges of life, whether it be a personal crisis, a loss, an addiction, a feeling of stuckness or a change in one's ability to cope. I offer compassionate and non-judgemental psychotherapy for adolescents and adults. It is not always easy to take the first step to start therapy and to be vulnerable, but allowing yourself to open up is often the start of the journey towards acceptance or change.
All of us at some point might need support to deal with the many challenges of life, whether it be a personal crisis, a loss, an addiction, a feeling of stuckness or a change in one's ability to cope. I offer compassionate and non-judgemental psychotherapy for adolescents and adults. It is not always easy to take the first step to start therapy and to be vulnerable, but allowing yourself to open up is often the start of the journey towards acceptance or change.
Life presents all of us with complex challenges which are sometimes difficult to manage. E.g. what may be troubling is a recent interpersonal difficulty, or perhaps something unpleasant has happened or is still happening in your workplace (or school/college/university). You may have lost someone you were close to, or perhaps you were the victim of a crime. Alternatively, what may be troubling may be of a more long-standing nature, causing unresolved unhappiness. Or you may feel that life could be more fulfilling than it has been up to now, that it could be a happier, richer experience, with a sense of more well-being and freedom.
Life presents all of us with complex challenges which are sometimes difficult to manage. E.g. what may be troubling is a recent interpersonal difficulty, or perhaps something unpleasant has happened or is still happening in your workplace (or school/college/university). You may have lost someone you were close to, or perhaps you were the victim of a crime. Alternatively, what may be troubling may be of a more long-standing nature, causing unresolved unhappiness. Or you may feel that life could be more fulfilling than it has been up to now, that it could be a happier, richer experience, with a sense of more well-being and freedom.
There are times in life when we feel stuck and there seems to be no way forward. You might struggle to concentrate, feel anxious and stressed all the time, lie awake at night, and get angry for no apparent reason. You might also experiences more severe symptoms like phobias, panic attacks, social anxiety, depression, PTSD, substance abuse, self harm, eating disorders etc. The reason might not be apparent, but sometimes it might relate back to unresolved traumatic experiences you've had growing up like bullying, sexual abuse or rape, family violence, sibling rivalry, parents divorce, death of a loved one.
There are times in life when we feel stuck and there seems to be no way forward. You might struggle to concentrate, feel anxious and stressed all the time, lie awake at night, and get angry for no apparent reason. You might also experiences more severe symptoms like phobias, panic attacks, social anxiety, depression, PTSD, substance abuse, self harm, eating disorders etc. The reason might not be apparent, but sometimes it might relate back to unresolved traumatic experiences you've had growing up like bullying, sexual abuse or rape, family violence, sibling rivalry, parents divorce, death of a loved one.
“When the other person is hurting, confused, troubled, anxious, alienated, terrified; or “when he or she is doubtful of self-worth, uncertain as to identity, then understanding is called for. The gentle and sensitive companionship of an empathic stance… provides illumination and healing. In such situations deep understanding is, I believe, the most precious gift one can give to another” - Carl R. Rogers.
“When the other person is hurting, confused, troubled, anxious, alienated, terrified; or “when he or she is doubtful of self-worth, uncertain as to identity, then understanding is called for. The gentle and sensitive companionship of an empathic stance… provides illumination and healing. In such situations deep understanding is, I believe, the most precious gift one can give to another” - Carl R. Rogers.
We are all on a journey and we shouldn't have to go it alone. At Pathways Counselling South Africa I am here to walk the journey alongside you, helping you navigate the best way forward. My ideal client is an honest person who wants to grow and learn to change what they can, and begin to thrive. Healing, hope and wholeness is something I want to help you acquire on your journey with me.
I offer faith-based counselling from a Christian viewpoint.
Whatever your faith or non faith background I can assist you in healing and growing as a person.
The service I offer is as unique as each person who enters my practice.
We are all on a journey and we shouldn't have to go it alone. At Pathways Counselling South Africa I am here to walk the journey alongside you, helping you navigate the best way forward. My ideal client is an honest person who wants to grow and learn to change what they can, and begin to thrive. Healing, hope and wholeness is something I want to help you acquire on your journey with me.
I offer faith-based counselling from a Christian viewpoint.
Whatever your faith or non faith background I can assist you in healing and growing as a person.
The service I offer is as unique as each person who enters my practice.
Tracy Lynne
Psychologist, MPsych, HPCSA - Couns. Psych.
1 Endorsed
Wynberg 7800
Waitlist for new clients
I enjoy working with adults, teenagers, tweens and younger children. I have experience working worth Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Bi-Polar Disorder, ADHD, Learning Disorders, Childhood trauma and abuse, Trauma, Medical trauma, Neurodiversity, Grief CounseIling, Divorce and Adjustment Disorders.
I enjoy working with adults, teenagers, tweens and younger children. I have experience working worth Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Bi-Polar Disorder, ADHD, Learning Disorders, Childhood trauma and abuse, Trauma, Medical trauma, Neurodiversity, Grief CounseIling, Divorce and Adjustment Disorders.
Counselling has become a part of my life and I believe that we should all strive to be our true authentic self. Counselling is not just a career but a calling where I can see how my purpose fuels my passion. Working as an effective, competent counsellor is what drives the level of integrity and willingness to see a difference in clients’ lives. Therefore I am dedicated to provide psychological services to individuals, toddlers, adolescents, young adults, adults, groups, couples and families. My aim is to create a space where clients can be their authentic self's.
Counselling has become a part of my life and I believe that we should all strive to be our true authentic self. Counselling is not just a career but a calling where I can see how my purpose fuels my passion. Working as an effective, competent counsellor is what drives the level of integrity and willingness to see a difference in clients’ lives. Therefore I am dedicated to provide psychological services to individuals, toddlers, adolescents, young adults, adults, groups, couples and families. My aim is to create a space where clients can be their authentic self's.
Nearby Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD) Counsellors Searches for Hout Bay
- Bergvliet
- Camps Bay
- Constantia
- Fish Hoek
- Gardens
- Kenilworth
- Lakeside
- Muizenberg
- Newlands
- Plumstead
- Rondebosch
- Wynberg
Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD) Counsellors
How long does OCD treatment take?
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is often treated on a weekly or twice-weekly schedule, depending on symptom severity and the client’s preferences. Some clients may start to see a noticeable improvement in symptoms in as little as six weeks, but it’s also possible, especially in more severe cases, for treatment to take several months to a year before significant progress is made.
What happens if OCD is not treated?
Some people with OCD, especially those with mild symptoms, may find that they are able to adapt reasonably well to life with the condition, even if their symptoms never resolve completely. However, many people, particularly those whose symptoms are severe at the outset, find that their obsessions and compulsions grow more intrusive with time, making it harder to maintain relationships, hold down a job, or navigate the world successfully.
Are there medications for OCD?
Medication can be used to treat OCD. The class of drugs most often prescribed are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, which include fluvoxamine, fluoxetine, and sertraline, among others. In cases of treatment-resistant OCD, other classes of medication, such as tricyclic antidepressants or atypical antipsychotics, may be prescribed. Medication is frequently used in conjunction with therapy.
Can OCD come back after treatment?
Yes. Major life transitions, periods of stress, or other factors can cause symptoms to return or, if they were never fully eradicated, to ramp back up in intensity. For some, these relapses are brief and do not require additional treatment; identifying specific triggers and practicing the skills learned in therapy can help speed their course. For others, returning to therapy for a brief period can help address the underlying stress and strengthen coping mechanisms.