Services

For more information on how these services work please see our Terms and Conditions.

To become a client please download our intake forms here.

Learn more about our screening and intake process here.

Specialisations:

This practice is not eligible to claim from medical aids. Please take note that clients are accountable to pay their own consultation fees as per the normal tariffs charged by this practice.

LGBTQIA+ issues

In this focus, counselling can take the form of teaching and advising individuals about queer identities, including but not limited to:

  • the difference between sexual attraction, romantic attraction, and aesthetic attraction, 
  • Asexuality, including its entire spectrum of identities, as well as the nuance of sex repulsion and sex favourability therein 
  • Intersexuality and it’s implications for gender identity
  • Queer and trans-positive sexual education, including information on sexual practices as well and safety and disease awareness
  • Coming out to friends, family, and peers
  • Knowing if you are “gay”
  • How to support a queer loved one, including slur awareness, queer history, and correct terminology

Gender identity

While gender identity is a queer topic, it falls into its own category due to it’s large scale as well as our own specialised experience. In this focus, individuals can seek counselling on the various facets of gender that include but are not limited to:

  • Gender counselling- figuring out if you are transgender, exploring gender discomfort, information about gender roles, expressions, and identities
  • Non-binary identities- history, terminology, etc
  • How to support a child who might be transgender, including slur awareness, trans history, and correct terminology 
  • Transition counselling- including information about hormone blockers, surgery, hormone therapy, choosing the right path for you

Childcare and parenting

This category centres around parents, guardians, and caregivers, both new and seasoned, who would like to improve their relationship with a child, or who feel like they have no idea how to interact with children in the first place. Topics herewith are included but not limited to:

  • Emotionally connecting with infants and understanding their needs
  • Navigating the terrible twos 
  • Managing teen angst and rebellion
  • Ethical discipline 
  • Empty nest syndrome 

Mental health and living with mental illnesses

Those interested in this form of counselling don’t need to have or suspect a mental illness in themselves as mental health is for everyone, and everyone, whether they are neurotypical or neurodiverse, can experience symptoms such as depression, anxiety, etc. 

Additionally, for those who do have or suspect themselves to have a mental illness, we can explore ways for you to live as comfortably and as happily as is possible, as well as ways to manage the various symptoms and negative impacts it has on your life.

Specific experience in:

  • Depression 
  • Anxiety
  • Impulse control disorders
  • Obsessive compulsive disorder
  • Borderline personality disorder

Conflict resolution and emotional regulation 

This type of counselling can revolve around anything from fighting with a significant person in your life such as a friend parent or partner, to workplace frustration, and even unprompted, or exaggerated flares of intense emotion such as anger, mood swings, or despair.

Additionally, this counselling can target the emotional volatility that can come with the grand spectrum of mental illnesses, personality disorders, and the general pressures of traditional masculinity.

Trauma counselling

Hell online counselling holds a strict No victim-blaming policy. Survivors of crime, abuse, and assault of any gender can trust that this is a safe space for them to heal away from any notions that they may have brought this pain upon themselves. If you do blame yourself however, that is also okay, and we can work together to get you through that and on to a healthier way of coping with what has happened to you.

Specific experience in:

  • Sexual assault
  • Emotional abuse
  • Abuse in the home 
  • Workplace abuse 

I don’t know what’s wrong with me

We can figure it out together. It’s okay, I know how to help

Referrals for additional care 

Identifying the need for additional care and/ or deeper psychological assessment from psychologists, occupational therapists, family therapy, rehabilitation, financial counselling , etc.