Michelle Smit
Counselling Psychologist
A counselling psychologist working in addiction care and the anxiety, depression and trauma that so often sit alongside it.
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About Michelle
Michelle is a counselling psychologist registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa, practising in Paarl and at Val de Vie.
She has worked within multidisciplinary teams at in-patient facilities treating substance use, where recovery is rarely a matter of the substance alone. That grounding shapes how she works now: treating the whole presentation rather than a single symptom, and holding the family and relationships around a person in view alongside the person themselves.
Her rooms are meant to feel unhurried. A first session is a conversation — what has brought you here, what you have already tried, and what a workable next step looks like — with no expectation that you arrive with any of it already worked out.
Therapy Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Relapse Prevention
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Areas of Focus
- Substance addiction
- Process addiction
- Dual diagnosis
- Adjustment disorder
- Anxiety
- Relapse prevention
- Recovery support
- Relationship difficulties
Qualifications
- MA (Pearson)
Registrations
- HPCSA: PS 0137979
Where Michelle Consults
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