Carol-Ann Dixon - Counseling Psychologist

29/08/2025

90 minutes a week of connection

02/07/2025

Those ongoing CPD points .... stay up to date every month and subscribe to Calabash. Here's Part 2 of Relational Ethics.

Online CPD courses & CPD points for psychologists in South Africa. This advanced talk builds on Relational Ethics Part 1 by shifting from theoretical foundations to practical application in couples therapy. Designed for psychologists and therapists working with relational systems, th...

10/05/2025

What the Keeping the Love You Find workshop from 17-18 May in London is all about .... https://www.facebook.com/share/1APXTmvcnN/?

07/04/2025

Are you tired of the cyclical trauma of dating? Do you understand your relational blueprint? Would you like to spend a weekend exploring why you choose the people you do, and learn new ways of interacting as a single person? Join me for a powerful and transformative workshop worth 6 months of individual therapy.

09/07/2024

Crossing the line takes courage

28/09/2023

Makes sense.

Couples therapy has a lot of moving parts and sometimes it’s hard to know how it’s going. It’s important to give yourselves four to six sessions before judging it a success or failure.

Here are some ways that you’ll know that you’re moving in the right direction:

1) You’re arguing less.
2) You’re having more fun.
3) You’re engaging physically.
4) You’ll find yourselves acting more loving.

Learn more ways you can tell if your couples therapy is helping, here: https://www.mkcocharo.com/how-can-you-tell-if-your-couples-therapy-is-helping/

If at the end of a month or two, you find that you are not significantly progressing in these areas, you might want to have a talk with your therapist. She may have insight as to what’s in the way.

However you proceed, congratulations on your decision to seek help with your relationship. I wish you much success!

05/07/2023

The quality of our early attachments profoundly influences our relationships later in life, as well as the quality and health of our relationships.

Come learn more about the complexity of attachment styles, how to connect better with an emotionally unavailable or insecure partner, and how to work with it in couples therapy using Imago and EFT modalities.

Attachment Styles in Couples Therapy Webinar Date:

20 July 2023 Time: 18:30-20:00

Fee: Members R250 | Non-members R500 To register: [email protected]

18/08/2022

This completely resonates with me - see “Love in the time of Corona” on my blog: https://carol-anndixon.org/blog/

When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides.

~Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea.

art | Fulfilment, Gustav Klimt (/reproduction).