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“WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS, MAKE LEMONADE ”

Dale Carnegie

ABOUT

ABOUT ME

ABOUT ME

Amanda Koen is a private social worker who focuses on assessments of children aged 3-18 years, play therapy, mediation and draft of parenting plans.

She is also assisting in psycho legal investigations into primary residence/shared residence and/or contact.

 

She considers herself a lifelong learner, by constantly expanding her knowledge on important topics.

Amanda also understands that every person is different, and life happens to everyone. She focuses on helping people to gain control.

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EXPERIENCE

Amanda has 22 years experience as a social worker. 

For 12 years she worked in the government and church system. Here she rendered family care service. 

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During 2010 she registered as a private social worker. Her goal is to assist families in dealing with their situations.

EDUCATION

Amanda Koen obtained B. Diac degree (Hons) from Hugenote College, in collaboration with UNISA in 1992

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SOME OF THE TRAINING COURSES COMPLETED:

• Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP): 1992
• Marriage counselling training: One year training - 1994 – UNISA
• Play therapy: 2009
• Advanced play therapy: 2009
• Therapy for grieving adults and children: 2010

• Socio-emotional assessment of children: Holistic assessment of the child’s world: 2012 – FACT
• Interactional analyses: Assessing parent and child interaction: 2012

• A feast of techniques: Play therapy with teenagers, angry and anxious children: 2013

• Family & Child mediation workshop: 2015 – Familyzone

• Parental alienation: 2016
• Divorce: Structured play therapy and counselling techniques: 2016

• Attachment: Theory, assessment and therapy: 2017

• Advanced play interventions: Play interventions with traumatized children and children with attachment problems: 2021

• Supervised Visitation in Mediation: 2021

  • Child and adolescent assessments

  • Play therapy

  • Interactional analysis

  • Attachment therapy

  • Family therapy

  • Parental guidance

  • Divorce counselling

  • Mediation and parenting plans

  • Psycho legal investigations into primary residence and / or contact

  • Supervised visits between parents and children

CONTACT

CONTACT ME

ADDRESS

49 Carnation Road

Welgedacht S/H

Springs

PHONE

082 468 2780

E-MAIL

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