Mrs Kate Crosson

Specialist Wellness Counselor

“Embrace the change. Heal your past, navigate the now, and grow into your future. Change begins when you're truly heard.”

About Me

Life's changes can feel overwhelming. Here, you'll find a supportive space where you can truly be heard. We explore your past experiences, helping you gain clarity in the present. Together, we'll navigate current challenges and cultivate personal growth. This collaborative approach suits clients ready to embrace change. It helps you move confidently towards your future, finding practical ways forward. My aim is for you to feel deeply understood.

Approach

When change feels uncertain, I help you translate past experiences into clear, manageable steps so you can act differently in the present. Sessions in Hillcrest, Durban, or online in English are calm and paced to your rhythm, with space for short check-ins between meetings to keep momentum and practice new responses. We use gentle, practical exploration—asking where thoughts, body sensations, and relationships intersect—to uncover patterns and try small experiments. People navigating anxiety, grief, or family shifts often find this steady, collaborative rhythm helpful.

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Basic Information

Durban, South Africa

In-person & Online

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Services

I offer holistic services that support emotional well-being, personal growth, and practical life skills across all ages. My work includes wellness counselling, ADHD coaching, executive functioning support, and play-led interventions for children and adolescents. Sessions are tailored to the individual, combining emotional support with practical, evidence-informed skills that can be applied in everyday life. These include tools for emotional regulation, communication, focus, organization, and healthy coping strategies. I work from a strengths-based, non-judgmental approach, viewing the person as a whole and capable, and addressing challenges as experiences to be understood rather than flaws to be fixed. Whether support is needed for emotional processing, focus and motivation, behavioural challenges, or personal development, I aim to create a safe, supportive space that encourages insight, confidence, and meaningful, sustainable change.

Services Offered:

Advocacy
Services that help individuals navigate healthcare, education, or social systems to ensure their mental health needs are recognised and met.
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Child / Adolescent Therapy
Therapy for children and teenagers using age-appropriate methods, such as play, art, or adapted talk therapy, to address emotional and behavioural difficulties.
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Coaching
A goal-oriented practice focused on identifying objectives, overcoming obstacles, and taking action, centred on the present and future rather than past difficulties.
Counseling
A form of talk therapy providing a safe, confidential space to explore feelings, thoughts, and behaviours with a trained professional.
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Mindfulness
The practice of paying deliberate attention to the present moment without judgement, used to reduce stress and increase awareness of automatic reactions.
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Personal Development
The ongoing process of self-awareness, self-improvement, and reaching one's potential, pursued not because something is wrong but to live more fully.
Conflict Management
Structured approaches to resolving disputes and improving communication between people in conflict, whether in relationships, families, or workplaces.
Individual Therapy
One-on-one therapy sessions between a client and a therapist, focused on that person's specific concerns and goals.
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Online Counselling
Counselling conducted via video, phone, or secure messaging, providing professional support remotely.
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Trauma Counselling
Counselling specifically for people affected by traumatic events, focused on processing what happened and reducing symptoms like flashbacks and hypervigilance.
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Works With:

Adolescents
Adults
Children
Families
Groups
Individuals
Parents

Area of Expertise

Scope of Practice:

Adolescent Therapy
Therapy designed for teenagers, using age-appropriate methods to address issues like anxiety, identity, peer pressure, and family conflict.
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Anxiety
Persistent worry, nervousness, or fear that is disproportionate to the situation and interferes with daily functioning.
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Behaviour or Conduct Issues
Persistent patterns of defiant, aggressive, or rule-breaking behaviour in children or adolescents that significantly disrupt home, school, or social life.
Grief & Loss
The emotional, physical, and psychological response to the death of a loved one or another significant loss.
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Eating Disorders
A group of conditions, including anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating, involving disturbed eating behaviours and a distorted relationship with food and body image.
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Family Issues
Difficulties within the family system, including conflict, communication breakdown, blended family tensions, or intergenerational patterns, that affect individual and collective well-being.
Stress / Burnout
The body and mind's response to prolonged or excessive demands. When sustained, it can lead to emotional exhaustion, detachment, and reduced functioning (burnout).
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ADHD / Attention Difficulties
A neurodevelopmental condition involving persistent difficulty with attention, impulsivity, and/or hyperactivity that interferes with daily functioning.
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Young Adult Issues
The unique psychological challenges of emerging adulthood (18–25), including identity formation, independence, relationship navigation, and finding direction.
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