Jan Joubert
DKATI, MACP (In progress)
2½ years’ experience
Specialisations
Child or adolescent
Family
Anxiety and Depression
Grief and Loss
Trauma
Clinical approaches
Art and expressive arts therapy, Clinical counselling, Psychodynamic approaches (Jungian, Gestalt, Adlerian), Trauma therapy, Internal Family Systems therapies, Acceptance and Commitment therapy, Attachment therapies, Cognitive-Behavioural therapies, Behaviourist therapies, Brief solution-focused therapy, Mindfulness-based therapies, Somatic therapies, Phenomenological approaches, Narrative therapy, Existential therapies, Relational therapy, Play therapy / sand-tray therapy, Family Support & Preservation, Career counselling, Community Development, Clinical research and development.
A professional art therapist since 2018 and a clinical counsellor in training, Jan has been practicing in mental health for families, children and youth since May 2018. He specialized in individual adult and young adult art psychotherapy during training and sees such cases during his spare time. He works with mild to severe concerns and loves supporting others towards their healing (can’t imagine any other vocation).
Jan has consistently found disconnection in relationships leading to unmet needs, or in relation to ourselves, at the heart of many mental-health concerns. Being primarily person-centered, he has a warm, accepting, genuine, congruent transparency and openness in sessions. He also believes in accountability to circumstantial dilemmas or woundedness.
Personal experiences of loss and trauma have deepened Jan’s empathy for others and helped him to understand this territory from the inside-out. He’s been described as gentle, humorous, insightful, perceptive, empathic, kind, imaginative, patient, and intuitive. Jan often sees how an unresolved past is alive in the present for my clients, shaping their relationships, feelings, choices, and circumstances. As within, so without.
However, Jan does not solely focus on the past and believes in people having (and being able to cultivate) a freedom of choice. He believes in supporting clients to find their own path towards healing, as they ultimately hold their own best-answer. In this manner, He supports self-determination. Still, in therapy it is the commitment to work on your benefit together that is key to a successful outcome, and he hopes that it is also the right time for you. Therapy works!