About Salome
Salome Mbenjele is an ACA counsellor with 20 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, trauma and family conflict. Her manner is warm and direct, and she aims to make first steps feel manageable for worried parents and busy adults.
Salome creates an open space for people to talk about thoughts and feelings without judgement. Sessions focus on practical steps and understanding how emotions show up in the body.
Background and approach
She pays attention to both what people say and how they experience tension or relief in everyday life. Her approach draws on somatic ideas alongside cognitive and humanistic methods. That means work might include noticing bodily sensations, spotting unhelpful thinking patterns, and practising small skills to change day-to-day behaviour.
Plans are adapted to each person's needs rather than following a fixed script. Salome values respect, sensitivity and compassion in sessions. She avoids stigmatizing labels and invites clients to set the pace.
Therapy is collaborative and paced to what feels safe and useful for the individual. She speaks English, South Ndebele, North Ndebele and Shona, and practises from Australia. People who want to begin are guided through a simple matching process and then schedule sessions to suit their life and availability.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to bodily sensations and how feelings show up in the body. Online sessions can include guided body awareness, breathing and gentle noticing to reduce tension and increase self-awareness, which can help with anxiety and stress.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed actions. In plain terms this means noticing difficult thoughts, choosing what matters most, and practising simple behaviours that move life in that direction. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people build safer ways of relating. That work helps with communication problems, trust issues and healing from past hurts.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences, and together they will try methods that feel most useful. This is a collaborative, paced process rather than a one-size-fits-all prescription.
Online therapy offers flexibility across video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around family life, work and other commitments, and allow follow-up practice and check-ins between live meetings. Appropriately qualified or registered therapists can adapt exercises and conversations to work well in each format.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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