Intervention & Support

We counsel on average 10 - 15 clients per day. The therapy we provide involves healing past emotional wounds, followed up by equipping our clients with relationship, financial & social skills. This empowers them to gain deeper understanding, insight & awareness of their issues, thus enabling them to make good decisions, wise choices, & ultimately to be effective problem solvers. Learning from mistakes and being able to predict the outcome of behaviour is part of the maturation process.

We believe in changing mind-sets, so that clients can live responsibly & face greater challenges.
Alcohol & drug addiction continues to be diagnosed as the biggest male social problem, followed by
women who are abused by alcohol- or drug-addicted men. Stats indicate that 80% of all domestic
violence is attributed to alcohol /drug abuse by males, whom we counsel using the worldwide 12 Steps
Program. More serious cases are referred to Rehabilitation Centres in Worcester & Klapmuts. ABBA
provides ongoing support through weekly group sessions. Quality regular after care for addicts is the
primary , key number one need to ensure sobriety – neglecting this part of recovery, leads to an
imminent relapse.

Rejoice counsels women who have been raped, as well as all people, adults & teens who are infected
by HIV/AIDS. She is co-ordinating a central HIV/AIDS support group, which attracts other NGO's and residents of Grabouw to meet once a week.

Looking ahead... Workshop Dates
Parenting workshops: 5 &19 Nov 2011, 10, 12, 24 March 2012
Trainers: Warren Dunton (English & Afrikaans) & Rejoice Zacharia (Xhosa

Networking On 2nd September 2011

Networking
On 2nd September ABBA hosted an Open Day for the community, to which other NGO colleagues, funders & businessmen were invited to meet our counsellors and become acquainted with our services. Visitors included key stakeholders from our social development network of NGO's, local business people  & farmers; all of whom we depend upon for referrals and financial support.

 Thanks to all who attended!

The ABBA Board Members, namely Rev. Neil Meyer, Steve Rabe, Simon van der Merwe & Keith August.

History is Made!

On 5'th of May 2011, Abba turned two years old! We spent our first year, 2009 counselling the local community from an American Trailor Home. That proved to be seriously challenging from the point of view of the heat, cold, and also voices travelling across rooms and disrupting privacy & confidentiality.

In June 2010 we moved into our brand new counselling centre, for which we are so very grateful and blessed. The Centre has 3 counselling rooms , a waiting room, play therapy room, and toy library.

VISION, MISSION, OBJECTIVES, METHODOLOGY, OUTPUTS, ORGANISATION / STAFF

VISION

To uplift, empower and transform individuals, marriages and families through the medium of psychological counselling, coaching, mentoring  and seminars.

 

MISSION

To reach all families in need of mental health in Grabouw and the Overberg areas

 

OBJECTIVES

To improve quality of life at home and at work

To comfort and understand

To gain personal insight

To develop self-awareness

To guide and direct

To equip problem solving

To empower individuals 

 

METHODOLOGY

Client Centred Therapy

Play Therapy

12 Steps program

Pastoral Counselling

Workshops

 

OUTPUTS

Improve Marriage Relationships

Improve Parenting Skills

Developing Fatherhood Skills

Increase Family Happiness

Increase Work Attendance

Decrease Crime

Decrease Abuse

Decrease Addiction  

 

 

ORGANISATION / STAFF:

Founding Director /Head Counsellor – Warren Dunton B.Psychology(CO-0608) UCT

Xhosa Counsellor – Rejoice Zacharia

Administrator: Paulina Van der Walt

 

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