HIV Counselling & Psychology, Online in South Africa
Living with HIV—or supporting someone who does—extends beyond medical management, surfacing emotional, relational, and identity-related challenges. This service provides a confidential space for these dimensions.
Intended Clients
- Adults recently diagnosed, processing implications.
- Long-term HIV-positive individuals addressing cumulative impact.
- Serodiscordant couples navigating intimacy, dating, and family discussions.
- Partners, parents, adult children, or friends of HIV-positive individuals.
- Persons facing disclosure decisions with family, employers, or prospective partners.
Therapeutic Approach
This practice offers confidential, non-judgmental, client-paced counselling that complements, not replaces, existing clinical care or treatment programmes. Session content remains private, subject to standard legal exceptions explained at outset.
The process accommodates varied starting points: initial verbalisation of diagnosis, long-suppressed concerns, or emerging relational challenges.
Focus Areas
- Emotional response to recent diagnosis.
- Disclosure strategies: timing, recipients, and associated fears.
- Treatment adherence and undermining emotional factors.
- Internalised stigma and persistent shame.
- Dating, intimacy, and sexuality as HIV-positive individuals.
- Family dynamics in serodiscordant households.
- Grief over pre-diagnosis identity or life trajectory.
- Long-term wellbeing with HIV.
Scope of Practice
This counselling addresses psychological dimensions exclusively, not medical concerns. Treatment, ARV management, viral load monitoring, or physical health queries reside with clinical teams. This service integrates alongside medical care.
Sessions occur via secure video (online) or in-person in Stilbaai West. HIV status or counselling participation requires explicit consent for any third-party disclosure.
Session Details
Available online anywhere in South Africa, or in person at 6 Buitekant Street, Stilbaai West. I offer a free 15-minute consultation so that we can check fit before you commit. Sessions are R500 for 60 minutes, R250 for 30 minutes. Please see the fees section on the home page for details, or read about online counselling and what to expect from a first session. Related: chronic illness and pain for the long-term-condition framing, bereavement, and trauma counselling.