HPCSA Registered Counsellor

Empowering Your Journey to Emotional Well-Being and Self-Discovery

Compassionate, 100% online counselling for individuals finding their way forward — and for couples who want to get it right. Space to be understood, and practical steps to take with you.

Your first session is completely free.

Sumarie Engelbrecht, registered counsellor at Wholistic Mental Health Care

Online Sessions

Mental health care in the comfort of your own home.

Practical Tools

Leave every session with something to use.

Safe Environment

Private, safe and 100% online.

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Compassionate Guidance for Your Journey to Emotional Well-Being

Embrace empowerment on your journey to healing. Unwavering support for navigating life's complexities.

If you're here for yourself:

  • Feeling stuck, indecisive, or unsure what comes next
  • Anxiety that shows up faster than you can talk yourself out of it
  • Carrying something heavy you've never properly put down
  • Living with a diagnosis and wondering whether this is as good as life gets
  • Longing for emotional well-being and growth

If you're here for your relationship:

  • Having the same argument for the third year running
  • Living alongside each other more than living with each other
  • Wanting to build something solid before you say "I do"
  • Something happened, and you don't know how to come back from it
  • You still love each other. You just can't seem to reach each other.

Why Wholistic exists

Empathetic Support for Your Path Towards Emotional Wellness

Wholistic was born out of the profound realisation of the dire need for emotional coping mechanisms in our society. Having worked in a mental health clinic, witnessing the guilt and hopelessness faced by individuals struggling to cope with life's changes, I knew there had to be a different approach.

Over the years, couples work has become the heart of this practice — premarital counselling especially. But I've never stopped doing individual work, and I don't intend to. Often they're the same work, approached from different sides.

What I've learnt is that talking matters enormously — and that most people also want something to hold onto when they walk away. So my sessions do both: space to be properly heard, and something practical to take with you into the week ahead.

A Sanctuary of Understanding and Support

I understand the weight of indecision, the frustration of feeling stuck, and the struggle to express emotions freely. Like you, I have felt the burden of suppressing myself, navigating life's uncertainties with anxiety. It is precisely these experiences that have driven me to create a space where you can find solace, support, and meaningful help without judgment or stigma.
— Sumarie Engelbrecht, Registered Counsellor

How I work

You Are Not a Diagnosis, and You Are Not a Category

A notebook, pen and Wholistic mug on a table between sessions

A managed condition is not a smaller life

If you live with a mental health condition, you've probably been told a great deal about your limits and very little about your possibilities. I don't believe a diagnosis decides what your life is allowed to look like.

What I've found is that a fulfilling life usually isn't on the other side of some enormous transformation. It's on the other side of a handful of well-chosen adjustments. Together we find the ones that fit your life, your condition, and the people in it — so that you can live fully rather than carefully.

As a Registered Counsellor, I do not diagnose or treat mental health disorders. I work alongside your treating professionals to help you build a life that works around a condition already being managed.

People don't fit in boxes

You can love someone and feel lonely with them. You can want to leave and want to stay. You can be doing well and still be tired of holding it together.

None of that makes you inconsistent. It makes you a person. Most of the frameworks we're handed ask us to pick one truth and discard the rest — and that's usually where the stuckness starts.

I'm not here to sort you into a type. I'm here to help you hold everything that's true at once, and find your way forward from there.

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The Premarital Couples Retreat, 2027

A few days away to do the work most couples only get to years too late.

Money. Family. Expectations. Conflict, and how you find your way back to each other after it. The retreat gives you uninterrupted time and structure for the conversations that build a marriage worth staying in.

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Wholistic Premarital Couples Retreat 2027 — free brochure

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Areas of support

How I Can Help You

Whatever brought you here, we can work through it together — one 60-minute session at a time, online, wherever you are.

For You

Anxiety Counselling

For when your body reacts before your mind gets a say. We work on what's driving it and what to do in the moment it arrives.

Trauma Counselling

Space to put something down that you've been carrying alone, at whatever pace you need.

Anger Management

Anger is information. We work out what yours is telling you, and how to express it without damage.

Grief Counselling

Grief work is not about moving on or letting go. It's about finding a way to carry someone with you — honouring who they were while making room for how much their absence hurts.

Divorce Counselling

For the version of you that exists during and after a marriage ends. Support through the practical upheaval, the identity shift, and the grief that nobody quite acknowledges as grief.

Career Counselling for Entrepreneurs

I've been an entrepreneur my whole life, so I know this pressure from the inside — the loneliness of the decisions, the way the business becomes indistinguishable from you, the guilt of resting.

Motivation & Direction

For feeling stuck, flat, or unsure what comes next — and for building a life that fits around a condition you already manage.

Free tools and guides for individual counselling

For You Both

Couples often arrive expecting me to decide who's right. I don't work that way. There's a third entity in the room — the relationship itself — and that's whose side I'm on.

In all relationship work, I look at:

  • Conflict styles — how each of you fights, and why it collides
  • Attachment styles — what each of you does when closeness feels unsafe
  • Core values and compromise — where you actually differ, and what's negotiable
  • Communication techniques — practical, usable, learnable
  • Conflict resolution — getting to the real issue underneath the argument
  • Repair after conflict — the skill most couples were never taught, and the one that matters most
Free tools and guides for couples and premarital

Not sure where to start?

Your first session is free — no financial commitment, no obligation to book a second.

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The difference

Why Choose Wholistic?

Counselling wherever you are

Sessions Happen Online, No Travel, No Waiting Room

Sessions happen online, from home, your office, or anywhere private — no travel, no waiting room, no sitting in a car park before your appointment.

All sessions take place during regular working hours.

A counsellor who knows this territory

One Registered Counsellor, Every Session

I'm an HPCSA Registered Counsellor with a practice built around individual and relationship work.

You'll see me every session — not a rotating team, not a matching algorithm. Just someone who gets to know your story properly.

Insight, and something to do with it

You Leave With Something Usable

We talk without rushing, and you leave with something usable — a tool, a task, a different way of saying the difficult thing.

The change happens between sessions as much as in them.

No judgment, no boxes

A Space Where Contradictory Things Can Both Be True

A space where you don't have to present a tidy version of yourself, and where nothing you say will be used to sort you into a category.

Getting started

Start Your Journey to Emotional Well-Being in 3 Easy Steps

  1. 1

    Step 1

    Book your free first session

    Choose a time that fits your week. No payment, no commitment beyond showing up.

  2. 2

    Step 2

    We talk properly

    You tell me what brought you here. I listen, ask, and we get clear on what you actually want to be different. If you're coming as a couple, both of you get heard.

  3. 3

    Step 3

    You leave with a next step

    Every session ends with something concrete to take into your week. Over time, those small adjustments become the change you came for.

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