Our Services

Psychotherapy & Counselling

Psychotherapy and counselling are terms used for two important approaches for treating mental health challenges by talking with a qualified psychiatrist, psychologist or other mental health practitioners.

Counselling, which is also known as talk therapy, consists of a single conversation or a series of conversations, taking place between a psychologist and his client. It is a broadly used term in psychiatry, which goes hand in hand with treatments used for the enhancement of mental health.

Psychotherapy, in contrast, is an evolutionary procedure which will support the client to develop a rational and clear vision about his long-standing attitudes, recurrent emotions, ways of thinking, behaviour, and personality, which might have resulted in current issues, in the quality of life and relationships with others.

During psychotherapy, you learn about your condition and your moods, feelings, thoughts and behaviors. Psychotherapy helps you learn how to take control of your life and respond to challenging situations with healthy coping skills.

Psychotherapy helps with a number of life’s stresses and conflicts that can affect anyone. For example, it may help you:

  • Resolve conflictswith your partner or someone else in your life
  • Relieve anxiety or stressdue to work or other situations
  • Cope with major life changes,such as divorce, the death of a loved one or the loss of a job
  • Learn to manage unhealthy reactions,such as road rage or passive-aggressive behavior
  • Come to terms with an ongoing or serious physical health problem,such as diabetes, cancer or long-term (chronic) pain
  • Recover from physical or sexual abuseor witnessing violence
  • Cope with sexual problems,whether they’re due to a physical or psychological cause
  • Sleep better

There are many types of psychotherapy, each with its own approach. The type of psychotherapy that’s right for you depends on your individual situation.

Contact us to find out the specific type of intervention your situation requires.

Child Coaching & Play Therapy

Is your child going through a difficult time, struggling to express him or herself, or displaying challenging behaviour?

Growing up isn’t easy and can even be overwhelming at times. Life’s expectations and challenging circumstances can have a great impact on a child’s emotional and social development, which can leave a parent feeling discouraged and unsure how to best support their child.

Renaisense believes in empowering children and families with the skills necessary to overcome their challenges and enhance their social and emotional well-being through the use of child coaching, play therapy, learning- and parenting support in a safe environment.

The child focussed services can help your child to:

  • develop a positive self-esteem and sense of self
  • work through traumatic experiences
  • adapt to a new or challenging situation
  • build confidence and a sense of competence
  • develop resilience and assertiveness
  • develop and improve problem-solving abilities
  • improve emotional and social skills
  • explore, become aware and express emotions
  • discover his/her talents, inner strength and potential

Play therapy

Play therapy is a form of psychotherapy for children, where ‘play’ is used to help children when they are experiencing social, emotional or behavioural difficulties.

Child coaching

Child coaching is a positive motivational approach that focuses on creating awareness within the child, of the self, emotions and behaviour. The aim is to help a child unlock his or her inner strength, potential and qualities. Child coaching is short term, encourages skills development and the practising of new behaviour in a safe setting through the use of play techniques and psychoeductaion.

Parenting support  is when a therapist works together with parents and caregivers to better understand and develop in  their parenting roles provides them with practical advice and skills, to enhance the parent-child relationship.

Learning support with a specific focus on reading – Reading is the most effective tool to experience the past, understand the present and invest in the future. The Wise Eye reading programme helps poor readers to become better readers, and good readers to become exceptional readers. .The programme believes in developing all the sub-skills necessary for the reading process and focuses on:

  • Effective eye muscle movement
  • Vocabulary and spelling
  • Instant word recognition
  • Reading and speed fluency
  • Reading comprehension
  • Visual and short term memory
  • Quick and accurate decoding of unknown words

It is suitable for children from 5 years of age to adulthood and is available in English and Afrikaans.

 

Psychiatry

Our team of consultant psychiatrists are available daily to support individuals who present with a variety of conditions including Adult ADHD, ASD, Stress, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Depression and many more.

We employ regulated medical methods to arrive at accurate medical diagnoses and treatment recommendations for all mental health conditions right from our facility in Lusaka as well as through our own secure video portal for continued support wherever you may be.

Our in-house pharmacy is stocked with a variety of medication to support treatment plans as well as ensure treatment continuity without experiencing drug inavailability. 

We believe in and often use non-pharmacological interventions for treatment as a first choice and our experienced team of psychotherapists are always on hand to delivery talk-therapy whenever needed. 

Please contact us to learn more.

Employee Assistance Programmes

Employee Assistance Programmes are employer-sponsored work-based interventions designed to identify and assist employees in resolving personal problems that may be adversely affecting their performance at work.

These problems may vary in nature and may include marital problems, financial or emotional problems; family issues; or substance or alcohol misuse.

Renaisense partners with small and large corporate organisations – through Employee Assistance Programmes – from all sectors of the economy including mining, telecommunications, banking, manufacturing, agriculture, Government and Non-Governmental organisations among others. 

Through these partnerships, Renaisense is able to support individual members of staff as well as business units and/or all staff.

Further, Renaisense conducts psychological assessments designed to address any one of the numerous issues such as stress, work-life balance, awareness, etc. These assessments provide greater insight into issues faced by the employee and allows Renaisense to design an appropriate and effective intervention.              

Training & Development

As Renaisense seeks to transform the landscape of mental health in Southern Africa, the development of qualified and skilled mental health practitioners is evidently key to this ambition. 

Renaisense has over the last few years developed training programmes and short courses for individuals and groups serving their communities at different levels. Our flagship programme – The Equipped-To-Care – targets lay counsellors who on a day-to-day basis seek to help individuals and communities around them but lack the necessary tools to help effectively. The course equips these lay counsellors with very valuable skills and tools derived from scientific approaches used over decades in the practice of psychology and psychotherapy. 

Other courses are designed for qualified practitioners and are meant to grow their skills and knowledge within a facet of practice. 

Please visit our course pages to learn more. 

Make the rest of your life, the best of your life…

We are an indigenous Zambian psychiatric therapy centre and we provide a range of services for individuals, couples and families, or corporate clients. Our sessions are conducted in a supportive, non-judgemental atmosphere, and all our interactions are confidential.

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