Mary Ovenstone

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Mary Ovenstone is a psychotherapist trained in Canada and the U.S.A. She returned to South Africa in 1999 and runs a successful counseling practice in Cape Town. A frequent guest on radio and TV, she speaks and conducts workshops throughout Southern Africa, Europe and North America. She is currently writing a book on midlife and the rite of passage into Elderhood she has developed, and will follow up with a book on raising boys for mothers.

After years of exploration and study, Mary utilizes a Jungian framework and combines such varied emotional processing tools as archetype and shadow work, hypnosis, psychodrama, voice dialoguing with conventional psychotherapy. Her powerful and unique manner of processing blockages in the psyche is deeply effective for individuals and couples, as well as for groups.

Drawing on her 15 years of senior management experience in North America in corporate communications and television production, Mary does executive coaching and corporate workshops incorporating interpersonal communications, life-management and leadership skills training.

Mary's Articles - Click to download

African Perspectives in Healing - Journal of Natural Health (28 KB)
Four Primary Archetypes - Odyssey Magazine (53 KB)