About Salome
Salome Mbenjele is an ACA counsellor with more than 20 years of experience. She helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, family conflict, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and depression. Her manner is warm and straightforward, and she aims to make the first step feel possible for people who are worried or overwhelmed.
Salome creates a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk about thoughts and feelings. Sessions are conversational and interactive.
Background and approach
She focuses on practical steps you can try between sessions as well as understanding what keeps old patterns going. Her style blends cognitive work with humanistic listening and emotion-focused methods. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas when they suit a client’s goals.
She adapts language and pace to each person so sessions feel relevant and doable. Salome has worked across a range of concerns over two decades, including caregiver stress, body image, attachment difficulties and challenges after trauma. She does not use labels to define people and aims to treat everyone with sensitivity and respect.
Clients can expect straightforward discussion, practical tools and steady support. People who want help sorting out anxiety, rebuilding confidence, or managing family stress often begin by describing one or two pressing problems. Salome helps turn those into small, manageable steps so change feels realistic and sustained.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them. It emphasises values-based actions so people can move toward a life that matters to them despite anxiety or low mood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and offers practical tools to change unhelpful patterns, which can be useful for anxiety and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape present patterns and helps people build new ways of relating and feeling safer in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Salome treats therapy as a collaboration and will help figure out which methods best match a person’s goals, needs and preferences. She adapts sessions so techniques feel relevant and manageable, and she checks in on progress as therapy continues.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and a more traditional session rhythm. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging work well for flexible, brief exchanges and for people who prefer writing over talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, study and family commitments while keeping a consistent path of support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Ndebele, South, Ndebele, North, Shona
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