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I am registered counselor registered with hpcsa board of psychology. I have been offering counseling for 10 years, working with diffrent forms addiction, trauma and grief.

Ive been involved in training, managing counsellors and addiction public awareness nationally, presentations in conferences and managing treatment network of more than 86 clinicians.

05/2023 - Nowadays Premium Consulting
Consulting Registered Counsellor
Responsibilities
- Performpsychological counselling intervention to overberg district
municipality govenment's employees.
- Performbasic psychological screening to determine presence and severity
of clients presenting problems.
- Psychoeducate clients about the nature and copping skills of their
presenting problems.
- Refer clients who present with signs of psychological disorders or other
health problems that are beyond my scope of practice to relevant health
practitioners.
- Following are some of cases I've dealt with; trauma counseling, substance
abuse, behavioral addiction, debriefing and grief.
- Write a report of every case that I've dealt with.
05/2020 - 05/2022 South African Responsible Gambling foundation
Senior Treatment Specialist
Responsibilities
- Offer counseling to self exclusion clients on how to gamble responsibly
- Participate on national responsible gambling public awareness through
radio interviews and TV interviews.
- Research on international responsible gambling trends and implement
them.
- Manage responsible gambling outpatient treatment programthat treats
gambling disorder nationally.
- Recruit, interview and introduce clinical/counselling psychologists, &
clinical social workers to national responsible gambling treatment program

Recruit, train and supervise South African Responsible Gambling
Foundation's internal registred counsellors.
- Represent the South African Responsible Gambling Foundation by doing
presentations in international conferences.
- Assess problemgamblers to determine the presence and severity of
gambling disorder.
- Offer cognitive behavioural therapy face to face and virtualy to individuals
presenting with signs of gambling disorder/irresponsible gambling and their
significance other/family members.
- Refer patients who require psychiatric evaluation for inpatient treatment to
psychiatrist.
05/2020 - 10/2020 MPA Psychological Services
Registered counselor
Responsibilities
- Performbasic psychological screening and report writing.
05/2018 - 05/2020 South African Responsible Gambling Foundation
Treatment adivisor
Responsibilities
- Recruit, assess and train new clinicians to join gambling disorder treatment
network.
- oversee the smooth running of a out patient treatment program.
- Advice executive office on decisions regarding treatment department.
- Updating out patient treatment programmanual up to international
standards.
- Offer cognitive behavioral therapy sessions to gambling addicts and their
family members (group counsselling)
- performpsychological scteening and offer psycho education to individuals
presenting with gambling disorder symptoms.
- Write report of every case that come to my attention.
- Supervise South African Collage Of Applied Psychology's honours students
during their practicum.
- Provision of supervision, and mentoring to junior counsellors.
05/2016 - 05/2018 South African Responsible Gambling Foundation
Treatment Professional
Responsiblities
- Offerface to face cognitive behavioural therapy sessions to individuals or
family members experiencing gambling disorder.
- Offer supportive counseling to family members and friends of individuals
struggling with gambling disorder.
- Collect national stats on gambling disorder rate.
- Performgambling disorder public awareness.
- Train diffeent casino stuff members on how to recognize and handle gambling addicts.

05/2013 - 05/2016 South African Responsible gambling Foundation
Telephone Counsellor
- Performtelephone counseling to gambling addicts.
- Performpsychological screening to problemgamblers through the phone.
- Write report of every problemgambler who call for clunsselling help
- Offer public awareness.
- Present every case to clinical psychologist and psychiatrist in a weekly
supervision.
- Assess every problemgambler before provision of counselling and referal.
06/2011 - 12/2011 Tshilidzini public Hospital
Trainee Trauma Counselor
Responsibilities
Trained by clinical psychologist to offer primary psychological services such
as;
- Trauma counseling
- Grief counseling
- Debriefing
- Use mental status examination
- Use Suicide scale
- Use aptitude test
- Use personality test

Education
01/2007 - 12/2011 Bachelor of psychology @ University of Venda
- BPS Advanced child/adolescent development 63
- BPS Advanced Psychopathology 70
- BPS Neuropsychology 74
- BPS Trauma/crisis counseling 66
- BPS Advanced psychological assessment 59
- BPS Clinical practical 62
Registration with HPCSA Board Of Psychology as Registered Counselor, practice number PRC0018929