Kaela Sussman (Registered Counsellor)
Individual Counselling Johannesburg
Counselling Johannesburg offers professional support for anxiety, stress, relationship concerns, life changes, and repeated patterns. Sessions are available in Sandton, Modderfontein, and online.
Is counselling right for you?
When Counselling May Be Helpful
People seek individual counselling for many reasons. You may want support managing stress or coping with life changes. You might be trying to understand your thoughts and emotions more clearly. Some people come with a specific concern. Others come because something feels difficult or unclear. Counselling can also support personal growth and improve how you relate to yourself and others.
Signs You May Need Counselling?
- Feeling stressed or under pressure
- Experiencing anxiety or worried thoughts
- Noticing the same patterns repeating
- Working through relationship difficulties
- Adjusting to life changes or uncertainty
- Managing pressure or high expectations
- Difficulties with food or body image
- Processing loss, grief, or trauma
- Wanting to understand yourself better
How I Work With My Clients
This short video explains how individual counselling works and what you can expect. It outlines the session structure, areas of focus, and how support is shaped around your needs and pace.
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How Individual Counselling Works
Individual counselling in Johannesburg offers a supportive space to explore what is happening in your life. Sessions remain flexible and adapt to your needs. You do not need clear goals when you start. Instead, the focus develops naturally as counselling continues.
The First Session
Here, we explore what brings you to counselling. We discuss your concerns, your current challenges, and what kind of support may be most helpful for you.
Follow-Up Sessions
Follow-up sessions build on earlier conversations. Over time, sessions adjust to what is happening in your life and what feels most important to address.
Exploring What Matters
Depending on your needs, sessions may focus on thoughts, emotions, stress, repeated patterns, or relationship dynamics.
Ongoing Reflection and Direction
Throughout counselling, we regularly reflect on what feels helpful. This allows the work to stay focused, responsive, and supportive.
Areas I Work With
I offer counselling in Johannesburg for a range of emotional, relational, and life challenges. People often come to counselling when something feels stuck, overwhelming, or difficult to manage alone.
Individual counselling for dating challenges, relationship strain, and relationship endings. Support focuses on understanding patterns, setting boundaries, and navigating separation or divorce with greater clarity and stability.
Support during periods of change and uncertainty. This may include life transitions, identity shifts, role changes, and decision-making, while helping you stay grounded through new or unfamiliar phases.
Counselling that explores emotional and behavioural patterns around food and eating. Sessions focus on control, self-regulation, and developing a safer, more flexible relationship with food.
Support for body image concerns, self-worth, and weight-related challenges. This work explores shame, comparison, identity, and how you relate to your body with greater kindness and respect.
Counselling for anxiety, chronic stress, overwhelm, burnout, and ongoing worry. Sessions focus on understanding triggers, improving regulation, and restoring balance in daily life.
Counselling support for noticing and changing repeated emotional, behavioural, or thinking patterns. This includes unhelpful cycles, automatic thoughts, and responses that keep showing up in relationships, work, or daily life.
Counselling for self-exploration and personal growth. This includes building confidence, gaining clarity, strengthening decision-making, and developing a more compassionate relationship with yourself.
A supportive space to process grief, loss, and significant change. Counselling supports emotional expression, adjustment, and learning to live alongside loss at your own pace.
Support for past or recent traumatic experiences that continue to affect emotional wellbeing, relationships, or daily functioning. Sessions focus on safety, stabilisation, and restoring a sense of control.
Practical Information
Sessions, Fees and Availability
Counselling Johannesburg is available by appointment.
Sessions are offered during the week, with after-hours and Saturday appointments available when possible. Availability may change depending on demand.
Counselling Fees
- Intake Session: R950
- Follow Ups: R750
- 3 Hour Intensives: R1950
Online sessions are R100 less. Medical aid claims may apply, depending on your plan.
Counselling Locations
- Sandton (Rochester Place)
- Modderfontein (Willow Worx)
- Online (Secure Platform)
What to Expect
What Counselling Sessions Are Like
Counselling Johannesburg sessions offer professional, supportive, and collaborative care. As a registered counsellor, I work flexibly and at your pace. Together, we explore emotional, thought, behaviour, relationship, and nervous system patterns that shape how you respond over time.
A Safe, Professional Space
Sessions provide a confidential and respectful space. You do not need to perform, explain everything clearly, or arrive with answers. Instead, we focus on creating safety, understanding, and support.
Thoughtful, Evidence-Based Work
Counselling draws on evidence-based approaches, including CBT, EFT, polyvagal theory, and trauma-informed frameworks. These tools help guide the work in a grounded and thoughtful way.
Session Approach and Structure
Counselling Johannesburg sessions can follow what you bring into the room. When helpful, sessions may also use a more structured approach to support clarity and direction.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Counselling can help whenever something feels hard to manage on your own. Even if you are not in crisis, ongoing stress, conflict, or uncertainty can affect your wellbeing. Counselling offers a supportive space to work through this.
Counselling sessions are structured and guided. You have space to talk, while I help clarify patterns and explore what is happening. Together, we focus on practical ways to respond to challenges at a manageable pace.
The number of sessions depends on your goals and what you are working through. Some people find a few sessions helpful, while others choose ongoing support. We review this together as counselling progresses.
Medical aid claims for counselling in Johannesburg may be possible, depending on your plan. It is best to check directly with your medical aid provider to confirm your benefits.
You can book a counselling session online or contact me directly. If you are unsure which service is the right fit, you are welcome to enquire. We can then discuss your options.
What Are You Waiting For...
Make an Appointment
Choose a time that works for you and begin at your own pace, or complete the form, call, or email me if you’d like to connect first.
Sandton Practice
Rochester Place: 173 Rivonia Rd, Morningside, Sandton,
Modderfontein Practice
Willow Worx: 16 Louvain Avenue Thornhill Estate, Modderfontein
counsellor@kaelasussman.co.za
Phone
071 873 0487