Enrichment centre
Our aim at Growing Minds is to provide holistic and comprehensive support to our learners and the wider community. Our enrichment centre provides access to therapies and health modalities of a conventional and non traditional nature. We believe in a fully integrated approach to support and work closely with the family and healthcare practitioners to identify the most appropriate therapeutic intervention and support for each child. We have a dedicated team of practitioners that are available for our learners as well as children from other environments. The Enrichment Centre is open during and after school hours for private appointments. Our dedicated team of healthcare practitioners are:
In addition to these modalities, we also offer
- Kinesiology
- Neurofeedback
- Biofeedback
- Clinical psychology
- Educational psychology
- Physiotherapy
- Occupational therapy
- Behavioural Optometry
- Dramatherapy
- Art therapy
To make an appointment with any of the practitioners, please email enrichment@growingminds.capetown and we will put you in touch.
Samantha Boting
HPCSA Registered Counsellor
Field of expertise
Helping you heal: Focus on helping you heal and thrive including trauma and containment, stress management, anger management, grief and loss, emotional regulation, Coping with life challenges
Helping you thrive: wellness counselling, mindfulness, self-esteem and confidence, purpose, motivation and goal-setting, personal development, assertiveness and boundary-setting.
Parenting support and guidance counselling as well as couples/marriage and family counselling.
Appointments available at Growing Minds Enrichment Centre or online
Children ages 10 and up
Marguerite Steppe
Integrated Learning Therapy (ILT) & Career Guidance Practitioner
20 years experience working with students from Grade R to Tertiary Level, identifying and facilitating their learning and other academically-related needs including identifying and improving learning styles, teaching various study methods, improving executive functioning, teaching test/exam writing techniques, identifying learning barriers and designing personalised plans for self-improvement.
Appointments available at Growing Minds Enrichment Centre and Rondebosch practice
ILT – age 5 and up, Career Guidance – High School students
Caryn Childs
Parama Body Talk Therapist, Cranio Sacral Therapist, Life Print coach
Experience – I was a teacher for 20 years, I taught pre school to grade 7, before I became a therapist. I believe that each child is unique and that an imbalance in the physical, emotional and mental systems of the body are what creates deregulation. This results in challenges which manifest with learning, memory and focus, behavioural issues as well as physical challenges.
Body Talk works with the energies of the body and repairs communication pathways between the systems of the body, bringing it into balance and thereby creating an environment that is healthy for the mental, emotional and physical body. Body Talk empowers the body to self regulate and heal itself, by severing the links to experiences that may have caused imbalances in the body.
Cranio Sacral Therapy is an invaluable tool to bring balance to the central nervous system.It is especially helpful in centering and calming the individual.
Life Print – Many children have behavioural problems because they feel that they have no value. Life Print sees the uniqueness of each individual child and emphasises the gifts and challenges each individual faces, making them more able to see their own value as well as the value of others.
Appointments available at Mind Body Connection, 1 Glynnville Terrace, Gardens (opposite Growing Minds)
All ages
Bridget O’Farrell
Group Therapist: Socio-emotional development
Work experience: Bridget qualified as an Occupational Therapist at UCT in 1991. She specialises in group therapy as a way of supporting children and young adolescents with their socio-emotional development. Over the past 26 years Bridget has facilitated groups that provide a supportive space for children and teens to engage with one another, practice healthy communication, develop interpersonal skills and self-awareness
Ages Grade R to high school. Children are grouped according to their developmental stage to allow children of similar age and stage to work together in groups to develop their socio-emotional skills.
Appointments available at Growing Minds Enrichment Centre and in Southern Suburbs.
Jessica Anne Williams
Speech Language Pathologist/ Speech Language Therapist
I am a qualified Speech Therapist with a passion for supporting learners with diverse and complex communication needs. I have a special interest in early childhood intervention and a strong focus on functional communication—helping each child communicate in ways that are meaningful and useful in their daily lives.
Appointments available at the Growing Minds Enrichment Centre
Ages of between 13 and 18 years
Dominique Janse van Rensburg
Specialist wellness and development counsellor
Dominique is a certified therapeutic play practitioner, neurodiversity affirming therapy and learning support, attachment based therapy, incorporating DIR floortime and DDP Pace. She is committed to helping children and adolescents navigate various emotional, personal, and academic challenges so that they can develop and achieve their optimal wellness potential. She adopts an interpersonal, process-oriented, and emotionally-focused approach that incorporates the following modalities according to the learner’s needs: Life transitions and guidance counselling, attachment-based therapy to strengthen the learner’s capacity for secure relationships and adaptive actions.
Appointments available at the Growing Minds Enrichment Centre weekdays and Saturdays.
Ages of between 4 to 19 years