By Joanna Kleovoulou, Clinical Psychologist & Founder of PsychMatters® Welcome friends to Fabulous February - not because it is a short month and you wishing for the holidays to arrive already! Rather because there is something fresh and alive that represents this...

Written by anonymous teen, learner at St. Benedicts College, Bedfordview, Johannesburg With the exams coming to an end, many teens (and their parents) are relieved and look forward to a much need break before the business of the new year. But for many others, as much...

By Joanna Kleovoulou, clinical psychologist and founder So many of my adult patients loosely refer to their ex-partner, boss or family member as being “a real narcissist!... It makes me so angry when he is patronising!” we all know of someone that winds us up the...

Empathy is the ability to put yourselves in somebody else’s shoes; to see the situation through their eyes; to understand their feelings given the situation they are in. What does this really mean in everyday life? Why is it important to practice this? How does it...

By Clinical Psychologist, Sarit Swisa This is a question that I think inevitably many people are faced with at one time or another during their lives. The fear that change simply isn’t possible could arise for example, for that person who has been ‘planning’ to lose...

By Sarit Swisa – Clinical Psychologist One of the key outcomes of a successful relationship intervention is increased empathy.  Empathy is defined as the ability to share or understand the feelings of another. Of course, this is only successful where followed by...

As psychologists we see so many parents who lament, “He just doesn’t listen”, or “I‘ve tried everything; timeout, taking away things, even hitting her and she doesn’t care, nothing changes.” “He goes berserk over the littlest thing, like I’m trying to kill him.” Being...