Lifepsyche is a private practice in Ballito, situated on the north coast of KZN.

The practice is run by Nicolette Meyer whom has great passion about people and the field of psychology.

The areas of focus are:

• Relationship coaching

• Personal development

• Health

• Emotional

• Work

• Money

• Family/Social

• Employee Wellness

• Employee Assistance

• Career Guidance 

My mission in my practice is to:

• Help clients in identifying their problem areas,
• Create awareness,
• Help gain insight 
• Provide psycho-education and teach the skills that lead to well-being
• Create a healthy mind which forms one part of the whole being

Vision

The vision I have is to create a safe, positive, nurturing space in which my clients can feel free and confident to express themselves. I believe that each client is the expert on their own lives and sometimes we just need help in organising our thoughts, emotions and behaviours.

Nicolette is a Registered Psychological Counsellor and life coach in Private Practice in Ballito, KZN. I do work with children, adolescents and adults. My aim is to help people to overcome their problems and cope with tough situations by providing a safe, nurturing, confidential and encouraging environment in which to contemplate their emotional state.

My job is to assist people by offering them a structured and focused way of addressing their problems.

I do family therapy, couples therapy, one-to-one meetings and all avenues of Employee Wellness, in which I help people with all kinds of difficulties, from post-traumatic stress to relationship problems.

I help people to explore feelings and emotions that are often related to their experiences. This allows my clients to reflect on what is happening to them and consider alternative ways of doing things. 

I work in a confidential, relaxed setting and listen attentively to my clients. The aim is reduce their confusion and enable them to cope with challenges or to make positive changes in their life where necessary.

Services provided are:

Specialising in SFBT (Solution Focused Brief Therapy)

Employee Wellness Practitioner
Specialising in Career assessments
Narrative therapy
Collaborative therapy
Trauma Debriefing and Counselling
Individual counselling
Bereavement Counselling
Psycho-Education
Emotional Support
Play therapy
Ego strengthening for low self esteem
Relationship guidance for families and couples
Dealing with life changes
Dealing with life shocks
Health & Well-Being
Achieving a work/life balance

Rates:
(Medical Aid Rates apply)

What a Counsellor Does

A counsellor helps people to explore feelings and emotions that are often related to their experiences. This allows their clients to reflect on what is happening to them and consider alternative ways of doing things. 
Counsellors work in a confidential setting and listen attentively to their clients. They offer them the time, empathy and respect they need to express their feelings and perhaps understand themselves from a different perspective. The aim is reduce their confusion and enable them to cope with challenges or to make positive changes in their life where necessary.

Typical work activities

There are various models of therapy, each with its own theoretical basis. Differences in approach can relate to the individual practitioner’s interests and training, the setting in which the therapy consultation takes place, or the predominant client group. Therapists working in particular fields (e.g. relationship guidance, addiction, sexual abuse or health) tend to specialise in the models most used in those areas.

As a life coach,

• I am concerned primarily with concrete changes in a person’s real life, including actualizing their potential, promoting their growth, improving their efficiency and productivity at work, overcoming inhibitions, and resolving symptoms.
• I only delve into a person’s past if it significantly helps that person understand and master those habits, feelings, and thoughts that hold them back from achieving their most important goals.
• I work with the client’s conscious experience, while helping him or her understand that sometimes their self-limiting behaviour is being by thoughts and feelings and beliefs about which they are unaware.
• I focus a great deal on the client’s real interactions within the various social systems in which he or she is embedded. The more I understand the social and practical realities of a client’s life, the better able I am to help him or her in therapy.
• I have no hesitation whatsoever about getting involved in various ways with a client outside my office if I judge that to be necessary to advance our work.

Employee Wellness Program

Employee wellness can be incredibly beneficial for your company. Not only can a wellness program help you save on medical costs and cut down absenteeism, but it can help improve employee morale, boost productivity and build a resilient workforce. Lifepsyche is proud to be associated with Careways and we are currently servicing Hesto Harnesses on the North Coast. We are also associated with the Massmart group via Universal health as well as ICAS and Reality wellness. So if you don’t have an Employee Wellness Program in your company, you might want to contact us to discuss options.

Employee Wellness Program not for your company? You might consider running soft skill workshops for groups of your employees. Soft skills are personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people within the workplace. Soft skills are a combination of interpersonal people skills, social skills, communication skills, character traits, attitudes, career attributes and emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) among others. The Collins English Dictionary defines the term “soft skills” as “desirable qualities for certain forms of employment that do not depend on acquired knowledge: they include common sense, the ability to deal with people, and a positive flexible attitude.”

What makes our workshops different?

We have our own personal Tai Chi Master who will personally engage with employees and teach them some methodologies to help them adopt a holistic approach to target mind, body and soul in the development and learning through our programme. 

We offer corporate workshops to companies not needing a full Employee Wellness Programme. These workshops can be presented to both employees and managers. Some of them are more suited to managers specifically and some to employees specifically. These workshops aim to enhance managers’ and employees’ soft skills which will enable them to perform optimally in the working environment.

Examples of Workshop topics:

There are many more topics available and programs can be tailor

made to suit your companies needs.

Contact us on info@lifepsyche.co.za or 0780287898 for a free consultation to discuss your needs.

Our Cape Town service is a unique blend of Motivational Interviewing (MI or Motivation for Change), Life Coaching and Deep Tissue Massage Therapy with acupressure.

Client’s initially receive a multi-dimensional analysis, which allows the coach to determine which of your 7 life spheres may be out of balance. This assessment forms the basis of the consultations and identifies specific change-gap opportunities and behaviours to work on.

We specialise in:

Mind – stress management, limiting beliefs and self-esteem, ego and archetypes

Body – health and well-being

Occupational – career, job satisfaction

Social – success, family and friends, community involvement, conflict management

Emotional – relationships, self-awareness, Emotional Intelligence

Soul – revitalisation, beliefs, personality 

Meaning and purpose – inner values, existence, fulfillment

 Our life coaching consultations provide you with tools and exercise notes that help you manage these stressors. There is a focus on personal responsibility, self-awareness, goal setting, motivation and empowerment across these seven well-being dimensions.

(60 minutes)

We combine Motivational Interviewing (MI) into these sessions. MI is a non-clinical, evidence-based modality used to resolve ambivalence and elicit intrinsic motivation for change. It is effective in mobilising your own resources and values to unearth positive changes when we come across stumbling blocks in these areas.

Our Cape Town clients can combine a deep tissue massage into these sessions either directly after the coaching session or in a separate consultation. This is a very deep tissue Chinese-based modality and uses a variety of massage techniques, along with acupressure, to work deeper than the norm, leaving you feeling like you have had a proper treatment with less stress and tension. 

Calming and affirming audio tracks will transcend space, time and location leaving you totally revitalised and and on-track.

(45 minutes – no coaching)

(60 minutes – no coaching)

(90 minutes – no coaching)

(90 minutes – 45 minute coaching and 45 minute deep tissue)