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Holistic Psychology Courses
Join My Self-Development Program
ABOUT ME
About Me
My studies in holistic counseling enabled me to do in-depth work with clients and students over more than three decades. As a mentor, I create a safe space where individuals can explore the possibility of being open to experiencing their emotions and develop the willingness to discover their authentic selves. My Holistic Psychology Courses can help you to communicate effectively and:
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heal relationships
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connect with the sensations your feelings generate inside your body
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discover what you need by interacting with your physical responses, and
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find your own solutions to life’s challenges.
Education
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Diploma in Holistic Psychology: Natural Health Institute, Toronto, Canada
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Certificate in Shiatsu Therapy: Shiatsu Clinic and Education Centre, Toronto
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Theatre, Film & TV Acting: Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, New York, USA
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Theatre, Film & TV Acting: The Second Studio for Actors, New York. USA
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BA courses in Philosophy, Logic, and English: University of South Africa
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BA Drama: University of Pretoria, South Africa
Stephanie van Niekerk
Holistic Psychology Counselor
WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU
LAUNCH YOUR VOYAGE OF
SELF-DISCOVERY
With my guidance and knowledge of holistic psychology
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Connect with how a challenge feels inside your body and speak to it.
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Attain mental well-being and wholeness by learning how to listen and speak to the sensations inside.
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Unearth the source of an emotional problem.
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Heal the past.
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Negotiate between parts of yourself to find your own answers and solutions.
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Figure out which of several options is right in the given circumstances.
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Learn to release limiting beliefs, transform emotions, and resolve conflict.
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Uncover your ideal state.
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Gain awareness, insight, and self-knowledge via transformative focusing and inner dialogue.
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Acquire the tools to resolve future challenges by exploring Focusing and Dialoguing techniques.
Art: Rudolf van Niekerk
REACH A STATE OF WHOLENESS AND MENTAL WELL-BEING THROUGH LEARNING HOLISTIC PSYCHOLOGY HEALING TECHNIQUES
START THE JOURNEY
DO THIS COURSE AND LEARN TO -
FIND THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM
ALLOW YOUR HIGHER SELF TO FIND
SOLUTIONS
ATTAIN BALANCE WITH MY GUIDANCE
BUILD YOUR SENSE OF SELF-WORTH
THROUGH SELF-DISCOVERY
ACQUIRE THE TOOLS TO FIND THE ANSWERS INSIDE YOURSELF
Art: Rudolf van Niekerk
LEARN TO HELP YOURSELF
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Learn to communicate effectively with your partner, children, adult family members, co-workers, and friends.
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Heal your relationships through effective communication.
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Strengthen intimacy and commitment through empathic understanding and active listening.
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Contact and hear your inner voice.
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Build your sense of self-worth.
TRANSFORMATION AWAITS
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Contact and hear your inner voice.
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Build your sense of self-worth.
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Your higher self knows what you need.
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Find mental health solutions to anxiety, depression,
and life’s challenges through Holistic Psychology
healing techniques.
• Enroll in my online Holistic Psychology courses.
FIND YOUR OWN ANSWERS TO
LIFE’S CHALLENGES
DISCOVER HOLISTIC PSYCHOLOGY
HEALING TECHNIQUES
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What is mindfulness? What does it mean to be emotionally aware or gain spiritual consciousness?
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You will be able to grasp these concepts once you have experienced the unity of mind, body, and spirit, so you can discover what you need to heal yourself and your relationships.
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Though it does not always seem to be the case, we all already contain “wholeness.”
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We are undivided entities encompassing body, mind, emotions, and spirit. For psychological healing to take place, these aspects require balance and harmony.
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Emotional responses have corresponding sensations in the body. However, we cannot receive the messages our bodies try to send us if the “feeling button” is switched off.
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We remain disconnected from ourselves and cannot access our inner wisdom and personal truths when we have blocked the flow of messages among the body, mind, emotions, and spirit.
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The techniques I provide will help you connect with your feelings and guide you towards integrating the various parts inside yourself.
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Become whole again by learning how to listen to your inner wisdom and remove blocks, childhood conditioning, limiting beliefs, existing distortions, and divided polarities. Resolve day-to-day living and work-related, relationship, psychological, and family issues by enrolling in this online course.
Art: Rudolf van Niekerk
Stephanie van Niekerk’s Guides to Transformative Self-Actualization
I strongly suggest that participants complete the Introductory Module (Course 1) before enrolling in Effective Communication (Course 2) and Focusing (Course 3). It provides essential background information that serves as a foundation for all the courses. Those who wish to register for the Dialoguing Module (Course 4) should first complete Course 3, the Focusing Module, where you will attain the required abilities and build the foundation for the final course.
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The Introductory Course will help you build greater self-awareness and further develop your emotional intelligence by introducing concepts such as the Five Agreements developed by Don Miguel Ruiz. You will discover more about the harm caused by jumping to conclusions, and better understand the roles empathy, mindfulness, self-regulation, and advanced social skills can play in creating change.
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Holistic Psychology self-help techniques focus on engaging with one’s inner awareness and feelings in the body. It empowers us to find answers to the challenges we face within ourselves.
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On the other hand, talk therapies such as Cognitive Behavioral, Psychodynamic, Humanistic, and Behavioral therapy primarily involve the verbal discussion of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
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Let me guide you to communicate with the feelings in your body and get in touch with the answers and solutions that already exist inside you instead.
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Though you may not have access to the wisdom within yet, your inner self already knows who you are and what you need. Use this process to access your deeper knowing and higher self to solve problems.
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Take the first step toward gaining insight, resolving your challenges, and making the changes you desire, rather than relying solely on someone else’s perceptions and advice.
Register for my Introductory course and build a foundation for creating the changes you need.
YOUR NEXT STEP
Learn how to heal relationships using Holistic Psychology self-help techniques.
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build rapport,
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strengthen intimacy and commitment, and
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repair relationships through effective communication.
To expand your skills further, enroll in my online Effective Communication course and
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learn empathic understanding and
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active listening skills
COURSE 1: INTRODUCTORY MODULE:
WHAT IS HOLISTIC PSYCHOLOGY
SERVICES
HOLISTIC PSYCHOLOGY COURSES
Transformative Self-Actualization
My online Holistic Psychology Courses help individuals heal from the past and create a happier future.
By connecting with and speaking to your inner wisdom, you can heal your emotional state and build a more satisfying life.
You will benefit by using your existing resources and developing new ones.
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COURSE 2: EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
LEARN HOW TO HEAL A RELATIONSHIP
Want to communicate in a way that will help others feel seen, heard, and understood? Empathic understanding and active listening can resolve relationship issues, conflicts, and misunderstandings. I can help you develop the skills to transform your communication and create a more peaceful life:
Simply waiting to share your view, shushing, browbeating, belittling, attacking, or making others wrong shut down communication.
Empathic Understanding is essential for identifying and acknowledging another’s thoughts and feelings. Use it to help your spouse, child, co-worker, or friend feel heard and validated. Empathic understanding builds trust because people feel understood and respected. Feeling with, not just for, creates stronger relationships through authentic and effective communication.
Active Listening requires one to fully hear and understand what someone shares. You want to grasp the other person’s full meaning, underlying emotions, and nonverbal cues, such as facial expressions, tone of voice, and body language. Then, you feed their thoughts back to them in your own words, paraphrase their observations and feelings, share what you understand them to mean, and check whether you are right so they feel heard and validated before you share your own thoughts and feelings.
Build trust, relationships, and leadership skills by using active listening with children, family, coworkers, and friends. Discover how to respond thoughtfully, resolve conflicts, foster genuine connections, and prevent misunderstandings, both personally and professionally, by enrolling in this course.
Register for my Effective Communication course and create positive change
in your relationships
YOUR NEXT STEP
If you want to continue your growth after completing the course in Effective Communication, consider registering for the course on:
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Focusing
The Holistic Psychology self-help techniques you will learn can help you:
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transform
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become who you want to be, and
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empower you to guide the people in your immediate circle to do the same.
To expand your skills further, enroll in my third online Holistic Psychology Course and
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learn how to use the Focusing skills
COURSE 3: FOCUSING
FIND YOUR OWN ANSWERS TO LIFE’S CHALLENGES BY LEARNING HOLISTIC PSYCHOLOGY SELF-HELP TECHNIQUES
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ACQUIRE THE TOOLS TO FIND THE
ANSWERS INSIDE YOURSELF
START THE JOURNEY
FIND THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM
ALLOW YOUR HIGHER SELF TO HELP
YOU FIND SOLUTIONS
ATTAIN BALANCE WITH MY GUIDANCE
Learn techniques that can help you to ˗
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communicate with the sensations inside your body,
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connect with your feelings around a specific concern, and
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speak to your physical responses
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to discover the answers your inner wisdom can provide.
Doing so can help you experience a shift that ˗
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transforms your reality and
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modifies how you feel and behave
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to enhance your well-being.
The concerns and problems we face generate sensations in the body. These may include tightness in the chest, a constricted throat, or a knot in the stomach. The online Holistic Psychology Course in Focusing will teach you to connect with and speak to these feelings, ask what they need to solve the challenges you experience, and get in touch with the answers your inner wisdom provides.
Doing so will help you achieve the best possible solution, the goal you wish to reach, or your ideal emotional state, enabling you to attain mental well-being and wholeness.
Even though you have not yet accessed the knowledge or insights that exist within you, your higher self knows what you need. You can find your own mental health solutions to anxiety, depression, and life’s obstacles by learning Focusing, one of the Holistic Psychology self-help techniques.
Sign up for my online Focusing Course to launch your voyage of self-discovery, build your sense of self-worth, and discover the transformative answers that will guide you toward empowerment. Find your own solutions to life’s difficulties through Holistic Psychology healing techniques.
Register for my Focusing course and learn how to help yourself
by listening to your inner voice
YOUR NEXT STEP
Interested in learning more?
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Join the Dialoguing Course, which builds on the Focusing Course and offers greater depth.
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You will find answers to more complex life issues that require change by using more in-depth techniques.
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Dialoguing enables self-perception and insights on a level not previously encountered and can open you up to deeper aspects of the wisdom already available to you.
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You can take this course after completing the Focusing Course, which provides the required foundation.
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Register for my Dialoguing course and learn how to achieve far-reaching transformations by accessing and communicating with more than one internal voice at the same time.
COURSE 4: DIALOGUING
NEGOTIATE BETWEEN YOUR INTERNAL VOICES
Our inner selves include several internal voices. Dialogical Self Theory (DST) calls them "I-positions."
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The term “I-position" refers to distinct internal voices, each with its own viewpoints and facilitative approaches. These I-positions want the best for us. Each offers unique strengths and resources.
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While they all work toward our best outcome, their methods may diverge, rendering some means counterproductive. You may recognize this when I-positions disagree with one another, leading to inner conflicts you may interpret as a clash between heart and mind.
"... every part of you is trying to do something for you ... Turn everything into a resource by finding out what a block or distortion is doing FOR you and creating an alternative route for that drive."
Dr Barbara Forest, Holistic Psychotherapist, Toronto, Canada
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Dialogical Self Theory (DST) entails techniques that enable two or more I-positions (also called self-aspects, internal voices, or parts) to speak to each other, negotiate, adapt, resolve conflicts, and work in concert toward your best interests.
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Integrating fragmented or opposing I-positions by harmonizing these internal voices enhances insight, deepens self-knowledge, and fosters personal growth.
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Constructive internal discussions enable straightforward decision-making, foster new perspectives, and transform relationships among I-positions, making your life easier.
Register for my Dialoguing course and learn how to attain far-reaching transformations by accessing
and communicating with more than one internal voice at the same time
IMPORTANT DETAILS YOU SHOULD KNOW
You can only benefit from doing these courses, whether you sign up for only the Introductory module or all four in the long run, if you practice the techniques as often as possible. Meditate, journal, or use the diverse mindfulness and breathing exercises we will discuss in the Introductory module. Furthermore, it is essential to practice the techniques, whether you participate in only one module or all of them. Consider connecting with fellow course participants and using Zoom or another platform if you live far apart. Alternatively, do sessions with friends or family members. Ask them to help you out, as they may also benefit.
You will have access to links to audio meditations that form part of each course:
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Breathing and a body scan,
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a breathing and relaxation meditation,
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breathing, visualization, and sensory meditation, and a
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meditation that can help you create symbols for deeper mental and emotional connectedness, and your creative self-restoring center.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Holistic Psychology Courses by Stephanie van Niekerk
Located within Saint Beagle Mews
Corner of Saint Bernard Drive and Beagle Road
Garsfontein Ext 10
Pretoria
South Africa
courses.holisticpsychology@gmail.com
Art: Rudolf van Niekerk
