About
Ikigai Counselling and Wellness is an organization. Born from a vision to change mental health and aspects around mental health in South Africa, such as depression, anxiety, stress, burnout, professional growth, personal growth and relationship growth.
Instead of just creating awareness, Ikigai focuses on creating “patches of normality” where clients can understand themselves and the problems they face better, grow from their experiences, and in return, become part of a network of “mental warriors” that spread the “patches of normality” throughout society. Various techniques and methods are combined to aid the individual in their process of healing, as well as creating a platform where it is acceptable to be and to experience whatever it is that you are experiencing, without “removing” the client from society.
Ikigai Counselling and Wellness is unique in that continuous growth and healing is offered after every session via follow-up activities, creating a strong basis for capability of helping oneself as well as allowing the client to work with the counselling and healing “tools” provided in the sessions. These tools can then be integrated into their lives with guidance of the counsellor to ensure smooth integration.