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Smit Psychology Group

How We Can Help

The Work We Do

Every person arrives with something different, so this is a map rather than a menu. If what you are carrying is not named below, ask anyway — it very likely still fits, and if it genuinely does not, we will say so and point you somewhere better.

Individual Therapy

Regular one-on-one sessions with the same Practitioner, at a pace that suits you. Whether something specific has brought you here or you simply feel stuck, the work starts with understanding your situation properly before deciding what would help.

Couples Therapy

Both partners in the room, working on the patterns that keep repeating. Couples come for many reasons — conflict, distance, a breach of trust, or a decision that needs making together — and the aim is a conversation you cannot easily have on your own.

Children & Adolescents

Therapy adapted to a child or teenager's age and how they actually communicate. Parents and caregivers are part of the process, and the first conversation is often with you rather than your child — you are welcome to enquire on their behalf.

Anxiety, Stress & Mood

For anxiety that has stopped being manageable, stress that no longer switches off, and low mood that has outstayed its cause. Sessions work on both the immediate load and the patterns underneath it.

Trauma & Grief

Some things are not resolved by time alone. This is unhurried work, at a pace you set, whether the loss is recent or something you have carried for years.

Life Transitions

New parenthood, a career change, relocation, separation, retirement, or an identity that no longer fits. Transitions unsettle more than the thing that changed, and it helps to think them through out loud.

In Person or Online

Sessions That Fit Your Week

Most people see us in one of our two rooms in Paarl. When travel, work or distance makes that impractical, sessions run online instead — the same practitioner, the same hour, without the drive.

We bill medical aid schemes directly, so in most cases you will not be out of pocket up front. See the payment details.

A consulting room at Val de Vie, set up with armchairs rather than a desk.

Not sure where you fit?

That is a normal place to start. Send a short message describing what is going on and we will tell you honestly who to see — or where else to look.

There’s no wrong way to ask.

Ready to talk it through?

One message is enough to start.

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