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About Rea

Rea is an HPCSA-registered Clinical Psychologist in independent practice, researcher and PhD candidate based at Conscious Health Collective in Lynnwood Glen, Pretoria East. He offers psychotherapy to adolescents, adults, couples and familiesexperiencing a broad range of emotional, behavioural and relational difficulties.

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People come to therapy for many different reasons. Some may be struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, substance use, psychosis or conflict within their relationships. Others may find themselves repeatedly caught in patterns that are difficult to understand, feeling overwhelmed by their emotions, or experiencing a more diffuse sense that something in their lives no longer feels manageable.

Rea provides a thoughtful and non-judgemental therapeutic space in which these experiences can be explored with curiosity and care. His aim is not simply to reduce symptoms, but to help each person develop a fuller understanding of themselves, their relationships and the emotional patterns that may be shaping their present difficulties.

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How Rea works

Rea works primarily from a psychoanalytic perspective, drawing particularly from contemporary object relations theory.

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This means that therapy pays attention not only to what a person is experiencing now, but also to the emotional meanings, internal conflicts, relationships and earlier experiences that may have contributed to how they understand themselves and others. He is interested in how earlier experiences may continue to live within a person’s current expectations, fears, relationships and ways of coping.

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People can sometimes find themselves repeating familiar emotional or relational patterns even when those patterns are painful. They may understand intellectually that something is not working, while still finding it difficult to respond differently. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy creates an opportunity to recognise and gradually understand these patterns, particularly those that may not yet be fully conscious or easy to put into words.

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Rea approaches this process collaboratively. He does not assume that meaningful insight can be imposed on someone from outside. Instead, psychologist and patient work together to notice what may be recurring, avoided, defended against or communicated indirectly within the therapeutic relationship. Over time, this can help previously overwhelming experiences become more understandable and manageable. It can also create greater freedom in how a person relates to themselves, makes decisions and responds to others.

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Although psychoanalytic psychotherapy is Rea’s primary orientation, he also draws from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Existential Psychotherapy when these approaches are clinically useful.

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy may help a person identify and address patterns in their thoughts, emotions and behaviour that contribute to present distress. Existential Psychotherapy can provide a way of thinking about questions of identity, meaning, responsibility, choice, loss and uncertainty.

Rather than applying one model rigidly, Rea integrates these perspectives according to the particular needs and circumstances of each person.

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Clinical experience

Rea holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of the Free State and is currently a PhD candidate.

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He has two years of experience working within a specialist psychiatric hospital and currently works at Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital. His psychiatric experience includes working with people experiencing psychotic disorders, severe mental illness and other complex psychological difficulties.

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This background allows Rea to work thoughtfully with people whose difficulties may involve multiple diagnoses, periods of significant psychological distress, psychiatric treatment or the need for collaboration between different mental-health professionals.

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He also has experience working within Krugersdorp Correctional Services and provides medico-legal psychological services. These settings have contributed to his understanding of how psychological difficulties can be shaped by relationships, institutions, social environments and broader systems of power.

 

While Rea is comfortable working with diagnosis and complex clinical presentations, he does not understand people only through diagnostic labels. His approach remains attentive to the particular person behind the diagnosis: their history, emotional world, relationships, strengths and ways of surviving difficult experiences.