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CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST

Shariefa Hendricks is a Clinical Psychologist in Musgrave, Durban and has been in clinical practice since 2001.

Shariefa has always had the desire for helping people to be their best selves. She currently enjoys working with all ages, and consults children, adolescents, and adults experiencing a wide range of issues/problems that hinder their optimum functioning.

Shariefa has extensive experience as a psychologist, having worked in the hospital context and in student support services. She has worked with both mild and severe pathology.

In her sessions, Shariefa assists clients to understand their life challenges and works closely and collaboratively with the client to achieve therapeutic goals and enhance the client’s experience of the therapeutic space, through self-empowerment strategies. Within the context of trust and confidentiality, clients are given the opportunity to explore and understand experiences and personal challenges. In working with her clients, she helps them to understand how their past emotional wounds, their relational difficulties and physical, psychological and emotional challenges, sabotage and obstruct them from living more meaningful lives in the present.

Parents with young children are psycho-educated on behavioral problems and how to overcome these through an understanding of how relational factors and attachment issues contribute to the quality of the parent -child relationship, and how these impact adult relationships, be it personal, romantic or collegial.Through  art and play therapy, children are given an opportunity to work on issues of anger and rage and other internal, family related,behavioural or personal conflicts, in a safe, non-judgemental and supportive environment. Parents of children who present with emotional and behavioral problems are psychoeducated on the  their child's presenting condition and given the necessary support to manage their children better.

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Shariefa’s areas of interest include depression, anxiety, grief, complicated bereavement and loss, marital counselling,  behvaiour problems, self-esteem issues related to bullying, Brainworking Recursive Therapy (BWRT), grief and loss, parent- alienation syndrome trauma, relationship issues, suicide management and clinical, career issues, career assessment and counselling and supervision training. She currently works in Student Support Services at the University of KwaZulu Natal where she regularly facilitates workshops on Time management, stress management learning styles and exam preparation. Both individual and group psychotherapy are offered to students who present with a range of personal, career and psychological issues.

Shariefa is currently in the process of completing her Ph.D in Clinical supervision research. She regularly attends continuous professional development workshops to keep up-to-date with the latest research and training in psychology.

She is a member of the Durban Private Practitioner’s groups(DPPG), attends the annual conference hosted by the Psychological Society of South Africa as well as  workshops and courses in on Transformational coaching and weight management, Brainworking Recursive Therapy (BWRT),  Clinical supervision,  and ethics.

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For an appointment or more information contact Analyze-me- Clinical psychologist on 0822977999 or via email at shariefahendricks@yahoo.com.