About Elize Anderson

Throughout her whole life children always played a big role.  Whether it was through helping her mom at her daycare business in primary school or tutoring primary school children while in high school.  She always enjoyed helping children.

She started her study journey at Unisa with psychology and completed her Honours in Psychology in 2012.  She then completed her post graduate certificate (Foundation Phase).  Elize also moved on to complete her Honours in Educational Psychology at the University of Pretoria and did a year internship at a primary school.  In between she also completed a certificate in how to counsel young children and adolescents as well as level one and two in play therapy.

She follows a Gestalt approach in play therapy.  U can read more about this under the play therapy section.

Elize follows an integrative perspective to counselling. Integrative counselling is a combined approach to psychotherapy that brings together different elements of specific therapies. She feels that there is no single approach that can treat each client in all situations. Rather, each person needs to be considered as a whole and counselling techniques must be tailored to their individual needs and personal circumstances.

Qualifications

• BA (HSS) Psychological Counselling (Unisa)
• BA (Hons) Psychology (Unisa)
• Certificate in Counselling young children and teens (Unisa)
• PGCE (Foundation phase and Early childhood development) (Unisa)
• Bed (Hons) Educational Psychology (UP)
• Play therapy level 1
• Play therapy level 2

Philosophy

There is a saying by Wendy Mass: ”If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies”.  Change occurs constantly in our daily lives.  Situation change which can be scary but that same situation can change for the beter.