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Celesté Swanepoel is a social worker with more than 16 years experience.  She obtained her BSocSci (SW) degree Cum Laude in 2004 and her MSD (Play Therapy) degree Cum Laude in 2007 from the University of Pretoria.  She has worked in the following fields before going into private practice in 2016:

• Child Protection
• Child and Youth Care Centres
• School Social Work
• Supervision and Management
• Addiction
• Part-time lecturing at NWU (Vaal Triangle)

Her work in the addiction field as well as her work with families of the addict in her private practice has resulted in her developing the Family Support Model on Addiction Recovery and she presents CPD workshops on this model regularly.  In her private practice she currently focuses on the following:

• Socio-emotional assessments of children
• Child therapy (play therapy)
• Attachment therapy
• Parental guidance
• Therapy with teenagers
• Couples therapy and Relationship difficulties
• Trauma therapy
• Addiction and co-dependency counselling (families)
• Depression and anxiety
• Stress management and coping skills
• Bereavement and loss
• Adjusting to change and life transitions
• Workshops for parents, teachers and counsellors