Therapy is a highly personal process and knowing a bit about me will make it easier to decide if I’m the right therapist for you. I am passionate about helping people overcome personal difficulties, manage interpersonal difficulties in families, intimate relationships, friendships and at work and supporting people to move from surviving to thriving, particularly in the family environment. I am particularly interested in working with adoptive families. I have been supporting the adoption community for more than 15 years.
My professional background
I have more than 20 years’ experience as a psychologist. I have been working in private practice since 2017. I work with adult individuals, couples and families.
My primary clincical focus is working with the adoption community, including adoptive parents, adopted children and adults. I am passionate about supporting skilful and reflective parenting, since adopted children need particularly intentional parenting. I work within an adoption-competent framework and a trauma-informed perspective, based on my clinical experience, research and further professional training and development.
I endeavour to support adoption-compent and trauma-informed psychotherapy and other professional services for all those in the adoption community. I offer and training and supervision to mental health professionals supporting adoptive families and adopted adults. I am also collaborating with the South African Medical and Research Council to make appropriate resources in support of child and adolescent mental health accessible to South African professionals, families and youth. I also provide clinical training to masters students in Clinical Psychology and offer clinical supervision to practising psychologists.
I have a research interest in the experiences of transracial adoptive families in South Africa. I completed my PhD at Stellenbosch University in 2023, and published my research on the experiences of adoptive families in South Africa in relevant peer-reviewed journals. This has been the pinnacle of my research endeavours.
My past work experience includes teaching and supervising masters students Stellenbosch University in the Clinical Psychology training programme. I worked for many years at the University of Cape Town, Faculty of Commerce, offering therapy and running life skills and mentoring programmes for students. I also offered therapy at the Student Counselling Centres at UCT and Rhodes University and did some and teaching and supervision of post-graduate psychology students at these institutions of Higher Education.
I bring all this knowledge, experience, and dedication to my clinical, training, supervision and consultation and advocacy work.
Education
PhD (Psychology) Stellenbosch University 2023
MA (Clinical Psychology) UCT 2003
MA (Education) UCT 2002
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Professional Registrations
Registered as a clinical psychologist with the HPCSA since 2003. Registration number: PS85219
Board of Healthcare Funders practice number: 0147842
Membership of professional organisations
International Society of Schema Therapy – Full Member
Cogntive Behavioural Therapy Association of South Africa (CBTASA) – Advanced Associate Member (Schema Therapy)
Centre for Group Analytic Studies (CGAS) – Member
National Adoption Coalition (NACSA) – Member
CONTACT ME
Jean Luyt Clinical Psychologist
25a Cedar Road, Newlands
CAPE TOWN