Psychotherapy for children, adolescents and adults
I am a passionate and professional counselling psychologist practising in Melville, Johannesburg. I offer psychotherapy and counselling for children (including children under 5), adolescents, adults and couples, working mainly from a psychodynamic approach with Client-Centred roots.
How I can help
I offer psychotherapy and counselling for children, adolescents and adults, career counselling, parent guidance, and talks and workshops. About my therapy
Children
Parent-child psychotherapy for children under five, and individual play therapy for children from about five to twelve.
Therapy for childrenAdolescents
Individual psychotherapy and counselling for teenagers, kept as the teenager's own private therapy space.
Therapy for adolescentsAdults
Individual psychotherapy and counselling for adults, including LGBTQIA+ and ethical non-monogamy affirmative practice.
Therapy for adultsCareer Counselling
For high school learners and adults: subject choice, further education and training, and career changes.
Career counsellingParent Guidance
Support and practical strategies for everyday parenting difficulties or specific issues such as bed-wetting, anxiety or sexual education.
Parent guidanceTalks and Workshops
For companies, organisations, schools, parents and other professionals, on request.
Talks and workshopsJonathan Bosworth
I am registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as a Counselling Psychologist (Independent Practice). I am honoured to work with children, adolescents, parents, adults and couples, and I have strong interests in adolescence, identity and relationships. I am an LGBTQIA+ affirmative practitioner.
- Qualifications
- BSc Hons (Wits), MA Couns. Psych. (Wits)
- Registration
- HPCSA PS 0120073
BHF practice number 0486159 - Training
- Wits' Emthonjeni Centre, Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital and Helen Joseph Hospital
- Practice
- Mainly private practice, with some work for the Johannesburg Parent and Child Counselling Centre (JPCCC) and Matimba
How I work
My initial training as a psychotherapist was from a Client-Centred (Rogerian) perspective. This shapes how I am in session, especially in my empathy and in how I value your own capacity to overcome your difficulties.
My later training and interest is in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, which I predominantly practice because it helps me build an in-depth understanding of your personality and current difficulties. I also believe in finding an approach suited to your specific needs, and may draw on Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Systems Theory.
What to expect
- Brief, short-term and long-term psychotherapy are available, usually weekly, in 50 minute sessions.
- When working with children, I first spend at least one session with the caregivers alone to understand the presenting problem and the child's developmental history.
- With adolescents, therapy is the teenager's own private space. Parents receive an overview of what we are working towards, not the content of sessions.
My patient information document explains some of the considerations of entering therapy or counselling and gives you an idea of how I work.
“I believe it will have become evident why, for me, adjectives such as happy, contented, blissful, enjoyable, do not seem quite appropriate to any general description of this process I have called the good life, even though the person in this process would experience each one of these at the appropriate times. But adjectives which seem more generally fitting are adjectives such as enriching, exciting, rewarding, challenging, meaningful. This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-fainthearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one’s potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.”
Beyond the consulting room
I am trained in and have experience in designing and implementing community interventions. I have specific experience in working with adolescents and with gender and LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) activism.
Finding the practice
Location
16 Seventh Avenue
Melville
Johannesburg
2092
A quiet residential setting, near Emmarentia, Linden, Greenside, Northcliff, Parkhurst, Parkview, Parktown North, Rosebank and Victory Park.
Get directions · Practice pagePractice hours
| Monday to Thursday | 13h00-19h00 |
| Friday | 10h00-19h00 |
The last session each day starts at 18h00.
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