Johann Krynauw

Clinical Psychologist

I am a clinical psychologist based in Tyger Valley Clinic in Bellville, Durbanville area in Cape Town in the Western Cape. I offer individual psychotherapy to adults & adolescents.

Therapy can be a process to restore oneself, which focuses on increasing your awareness of unconscious feelings, thoughts and behaviours, developing new insights into your motivations and resolving conflicts. Psychotherapy teaches you how to take control of your life and respond to challenging situations with healthy coping skills. I tailor my therapeutic approach to the specific needs of each individual patient.

My vision statement for each patient is “Time for Restoration” which means to develop self capacities for:

Spontaneity: experience capacity to real joy, liveliness, excitement, meaning.

Balanced Self-entitlement: understanding parental support from childhood to emerge as yourself, even current support from your adult significant other and the mastery of goals, accepted as good enough, and support to achieve this with no judgement from others or towards yourself.

Validating you fully: Acknowledgment of self-activation and maintaining self-esteem: exploring if unconditional love was there and if the parental interaction was a positive experience and if not one can rebuild it in the here and the now as an adult. This is crucial as it becomes what you can tap from internally fueling daily your self-esteem.

Soothing of pain affects and emotions: your ability to cope and to limit painful emotions in a adaptive manner.

Commitment: The ability to persevere to attain that goal despite obstacles.

Creativity: Ability to use yourself to change old, familiar patterns into new, unique different ones.

Intimacy: Capacity to express self fully in close relationships with minimal anxiety about abandonment or engulfment fears.

Autonomy: Your capacity to regulate your emotions and to function independently.

It is important to me to offer and provide a safe space for therapy to explore true and difficult emotions. Therefore, I pride myself on having an open and non-judgmental attitude to establish a therapeutic bond between the patient and the therapist. I place great importance in the ‘therapeutic alliance’ which means that therapy is an active collaboration between the therapist and patient.

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HPCSA Number: PS0137731
Practice Number: 0785253