Our highly qualified and experienced educational psychologist specialising in neuropsychology

Mizu Therapy & Assessment is a leading educational psychology practice

SPECIALIST EDUCATIONAL THERAPIST

Educational Therapy is, in essence, a form of psychological therapy used to treat individuals with learning disabilities and challenges. This effective form of educational therapy offers a wide range of intensive interventions that are specifically designed to resolve a learners’ learning problems. The interventions are individualized and unique to the specific learner.

TRUSTED, CERTIFIED EDUCATIONAL THERAPIST IN JOHANNESBURG

At Mizu Therapy & Assessment, our certified educational therapist in Johannesburg, Riza van der Merwe, works on a one-on-one basis with the children outside the school environment and all educational therapy is strictly confidential. The chosen educational therapies are powerfully used to empower and teach children new skills and strategies to embrace their learning and or thinking differences. This, in turn, brings joy, insight, and an overall improvement in schoolwork.

The educational therapies we use also involves psychotherapy; students get in touch with their feelings, thoughts, moods and behaviours in a safe, non-judgemental environment. The self-awareness experienced by children/learners brings opportunities for new ways of thinking and behaving. These new behaviours, more often than not, result in the long-term goal of releasing emotional distress for the child.

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TYPES OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES

PLAY THERAPY

Play Therapy is a non-directive type of therapy that works in concert with a child’s natural ability to express feelings and resolve conflicts through play. Various media, including storytelling, puppet play, drama, music, dance, sand play, painting and drawing, and board games are used to help a child work through their issues.

SAND TRAY THERAPY

Sand Tray is a therapeutic approach used for children, teenagers or adults who have experienced a traumatic event. Sand Tray Therapy is classified as a form of expressive therapy. This highly effective non-verbal method of therapy allows the learner to construct their own microcosm using miniature toys and coloured sand.

PSYCHO-DYNAMIC THERAPY

Psychodynamic therapy focuses on talk therapy whereby the therapist and client identify thepsychological causes of emotional suffering and the resulting behaviour. By sharing openly, problematic relationship patterns in the child’s life are identified and put into perspective.

COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY

Cognitive behavioural therapy, (commonly referred to as CBT therapy), relates to psychotherapy that targets to alter the child/individual’s negative patterns of thinking about the self and the world in order to change unwanted behaviour patterns or treat mood disorders such as depression or low self-esteem.

THERAPLAY THERAPY

Theraplay therapy is aimed at addressing the child’s behavioural, emotional or developmental issues by improving the parent-child relationship. Theraplay therapy includes interactive, playful, fun games and tender, nurturing activities between parent and child and aims to enhance feelings of self-esteem, attachment and trust.

COUNSELLING THERAPY

Talk therapy or counselling is offered to assist and guide clients in resolving personal and psychological issues effectively caused by various factors or circumstances, such as Trauma Counselling or Bereavement Counselling.

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Mizu Therapy & Assessment is a Registered Educational Psychology Practise in Johannesburg, South Africa with years of extensive experience in practice.