Janine Boulle Unclaimed

I am a Clinical Psychologist in Private Practice. I specialise in Relational Therapy, both Couple's Counselling as well as Group Therapy. A special field of interest for me is Critical Ilness Counselling, both Rehabilitation Counselling for those suffering from spinal injuries, strokes, visual impairments and physical disabilites, as well as Chronic Disease Counselling (Diabetes, Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neuron Disease, HIV and Cancer.



A dialectic can be likened to an internal debate that we have with ourselves. DBT urges us to be more aware of this inner debate, and accept the reality of the inner conflicts that emerge between competing needs and emotions. Much of life involves compromises between competing inner demands and wants. A dialectical domain then is an area of life where you have to struggle to negotiate two different, frequently competing sets of needs and wants. Dialectical problem solving assumes that you have to compromise. You have to give up something in order to get something else. You have to move from an extreme end of a continuum toward a different position. Dialectics are found around emotions, thoughts, values, needs and how these impact on our behaviour in relationships.