FRANCOIS RABIE

My practice is in Gardens in the Cape Town City Bowl.  I provide medium to long-term psychotherapy for adult individuals.  I see people who experience a range of difficulties and struggles with daily living.  The struggles range from disorders such as depression, to feeling somehow ‘stuck’ in life, or caught up in difficult inter-personal relationships.

The British psychotherapist, Susie Orbach, describes it as follows.  “People come to therapy when avenues for understanding themselves or moving forward stall.  They come because love has gone wrong, because they are frozen in unsatisfactory work or intimate relationships, because they have lost touch with themselves, because they are searching for authenticity, because they don’t know how to let go, because their life is falling in on them, because they have suffered events so bruising they don’t know how to assimilate them…The work of therapy is to open up on the levels of: feelings, words, and ideas.  It aims to crack open the existing words, the existing emotions, and the existing ideas.  Therapy tries to slow the person sufficiently to hear, feel, and think what they are saying and to have it heard by the therapist.”