Services

Services for People living with Bipolar

3 Step Bipolar Mastery Program

Fast-track changes in a small amount of time.

It’s a shift from confusion to understanding bipolar

  • How to understand your first episode
  • Looking at the experience of your diagnosis and where it comes from
  • Weighing up hypomania
  • Understanding your experience mania
  • Exploring your psychosis
  • Understanding your experience of rapid cycling
  • Exploring your depression
  • How to make sense of your episodes

It’s realising there is a problem so as to move to a solution

  • Focusing on dismantling denial
  • How to get to a place of acceptance
  • How to pick up symptoms and triggers

Shifting from I’m worthless to I’m a person of value

  • Understanding how the impact of diagnosis effects you
  • How to stop turning on yourself
  • How to re-connect with all of you
  • How to dismantle over-identification with your illness
  • 30 minute free telephonic/video first conversation
  • Unlimited WhatsApp or email support
  • Free participation in my support group in Johannesburg
  • 25% discounts on all retreats and workshops

In between sessions clients have homework tasks and explorations in what we have covered in the session.  Clients have text and email access to me in between sessions.  I will respond within 24 hours.

Emergency calls will be taken.

7 Step Bipolar Mastery Program

Long-term sustained and integrated changes over time.

It’s a shift from confusion to understanding bipolar

 

  • How to understand your first episode
  • Looking at the experience of your diagnosis and where it comes from
  • Weighing up hypomania
  • Understanding your experience mania
  • Exploring your psychosis
  • Understanding your experience of rapid cycling
  • Exploring your depression
  • How to make sense of your episodes

It’s realising there is a problem so as to move to a solution

  • Focusing on dismantling denial
  • How to get to a place of acceptance
  • How to pick up symptoms and triggers

Shifting from I’m worthless to I’m a person of value

  • Understanding how the impact of diagnosis effects you
  • How to stop turning on yourself
  • How to re-connect with all of you
  • How to dismantle over-identification with your illness

Shifting from victim to manager

  • Knowing how to recover from an episode
  • How to manage depression
  • How to manage hypomania
  • How to manage mania
  • How to understand and avoid suicidal thoughts

Moving from unhealthiness to thriving vitality

  • Why substance use is unhelpful and dangerous
  • Prioritising spiritual, mental and physical growth
  • How to accept taking medication
  • How to weigh up the costs of bipolar unmanaged
  • How to achieve general health

It’s a shift from non-intervention to action

  • What to do in an emergency
  • How to find and stick to your daily routine and dream
  • How to develop a peaceful and happy mind
  • How journaling can help you

It’s a shift from isolation to finding helping hands

  • Creating conditions for good relationships
  • How and when to disclose
  • Creating a circle of support
  • How to use wider support systems
  • 30 minute free telephonic/video first conversation
  • Unlimited WhatsApp or email support
  • Free participation in my support group in Johannesburg
  • 25% discounts on all retreats and workshops

In between sessions clients have homework tasks and explorations in what we have covered in the session.  Clients have text and email access to me in between sessions.  I will respond within 24 hours.

Emergency calls will be taken.

I work one on one with people in person (based in Johannesburg) or via video/voice calls 

Before our first session we will speak to get to know each other and for me to hear about your coaching needs. This is a free 15 minute call 

Fees

Once off one on one sessions          R580.00/hr

Discounted rate for Programs:

10% for 2 month commitment

20% for 4 month commitment

Group sessions with two or more family members and/or loved one              R800.00

Services for Supporters

3 Step Supporter Program

Fast-track bipolar understanding and ways to assist your loved one.

Basic information on what’s happening with a loved one living with bipolar and recognizing symptoms of hypo-mania, mania and depression

There are many ways to offer support.  They range from active listening to intervention at the right time.  A clear, supporting approach is developed.

Acknowledging your challenges and finding support . It is isolating and distressing to see a loved one suffering from bipolar episodes. Developing a self care and support plan.

  • 30 minute free telephonic/video first conversation
  • Unlimited WhatsApp or email support
  • Free participation in my support group in Johannesburg
  • 25% discounts on all retreats and workshops

In between sessions clients have homework tasks and explorations in what we have covered in the session.  Clients have text and email access to me in between sessions.  I will respond within 24 hours.

Emergency calls will be taken.

8 Step Supporter Program

Developing a long-term approach to assisting your loved one and yourself.

Basic information on what’s happening with a loved one living with bipolar and recognizing symptoms of hypo-mania, mania and depression

There are many ways to offer support.  They range from active listening to intervention at the right time.  A clear, supporting approach is developed.

Acknowledging your challenges and finding support. It is isolating and distressing to see a loved one suffering from bipolar episodes. Developing a self care and support plan.

Listen and discuss your loved one’s experience.  Looking at the dangers of treating your loved one like they are incompetent to manage their lives.

Developing a contractual agreement with your loved one that gives you permission to intervene on their behalf when they cannot.  The importance of routine.

Learning to be kind in understanding that a person  living with bipolar does not choose symptoms of hypo-mania, depression, suicidal idealization and mania. 

Addressing access to healthcare professionals treating the loved one and looking at hospital admissions and experiences

A person living with bipolar feels disconnected from themselves and certainly from the wider world.  Bipolar, like alcoholism, effects the whole family who need support and understanding

  • 30 minute free telephonic/video first conversation
  • Unlimited WhatsApp or email support
  • Free participation in my support group in Johannesburg
  • 25% discounts on all retreats and workshops

In between sessions clients have homework tasks and explorations in what we have covered in the session.  Clients have text and email access to me in between sessions.  I will respond within 24 hours.

Emergency calls will be taken.

Fees

Once off one on one sessions  R580.00/hr

Discounted rate for Programs:

10% for 2 month commitment

20% for 4 month commitment

Group sessions with two or more family members and/or loved one              R800.00