Diana Southgate, Counselling Psychologist

Diana Southgate, Counselling Psychologist Practice Number 861 853 4 Diana is a Counselling Psychologist and trained in both Eye Movement Integration (EMI) and Braun Working Recursive Therapy (BWRT).

She has been in practice for over 30 years, most recently in Empangeni and Richards Bay. She has a special interest in traumatic stress and addiction (in particular, alcoholism). She is further experienced in a broad range of therapeutic challenges, including anxiety disorders, eating disorders and obesity, mood disorders, personality disorders, phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder, among ot

hers. Diana also provides counselling on marital, child and family issues, loss and bereavement, and health and lifestyle. Diana is closely involved with national corporations’ Employment Assisted Programmes as a Counselling Psychologist she provides therapy for employers. Over the past 8 years, Diana has developed and refined a proprietary approach to treating alcoholism. The resultant programme ― ‘Surely Sober: A Pathway for Recovery from Alcohol Addiction’ ― has been successfully applied in practice. It is in implementation in a Workshop-plus-Home Audio format.

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There's a word for what happens in those moments. Cumulative emotional load. And it's one of the most misunderstood things about how the mind works. 🧠

We're taught to triage our feelings. Save the big reactions for the big moments. Keep it together for the small stuff. But your non-conscious mind doesn't triage. It stores. Every unprocessed moment gets filed away, and the file keeps growing whether you're paying attention to it or not.

The person who breaks down in the grocery store parking lot isn't dramatic. They've been making deposits into that account for months, maybe years, without ever making a withdrawal. That moment was just the one that finally cleared the balance.

If you've been the person holding it all together for everyone else, please hear this. The holding together and the breaking down are both part of the same process. One doesn't cancel the other out.

You're allowed to put some of it down.

If someone in your life carries everything quietly, send this to them today. 🫂

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7 Aloe Drive
Empangeni
3880

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Monday 09:00 - 14:30
Tuesday 09:00 - 14:30
Wednesday 10:00 - 14:30
Thursday 10:00 - 14:30
Friday 09:00 - 14:30

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