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where healing meets leadership, and creativity meets individual and organisational health. Whether you’re recovering from personal trauma, seeking to grow and strengthen as a leader, or you’re looking for support to heal organisational trauma, my services offer pathways toward transformation.
I offer professional support in three areas: Expressive Arts Therapy, Leadership Coaching and Organisational Health & Trauma consulting. My core approaches include creative expression, embodied practices, and methods that include systemic awareness. In this way a whole-person, whole-system approach is adopted so that both the person and the contextual environment are integral to the growth process.
My Core Approaches Include:
Story, Myth and Archetype: These give us access to universal patterns and possibilities. They can serve as mirrors through which to explore our personal and organisational lives, providing insight and inspiration for transforming and renewing.
Creative Expression is a conduit for self-discovery, self-expression and empowerment. It allows individuals and groups to tap into their innate creativity and discover new awareness and possibility. It is also a powerful practice for regulating our nervous systems and for strengthening social connection.
Embodied Practices provide a fundamental pathway for integrating difficult or traumatic memories, and for releasing the intelligence of our bodies. These might include simple, safe breathing and visualisation exercises for example.
Systemic Awareness is strengthened through modalities such as family and organisational constellations, and ancestral or inter-generational pattern analysis. This offers a lens through which to examine the interconnectedness of health, relationships and systems, revealing hidden dynamics and opportunities for growth and change.
What clients are saying?
Alet Mouton
Cape Town, Somatic Story© workshop participant
“Vasintha is a wonderful facilitator. She is warm, professional, efficient and authentic. I participated in a Somatic Story© personal development experience. The group was safely held, the pace was excellent, and she understood the material
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“Vasintha is a wonderful facilitator. She is warm, professional, efficient and authentic. I participated in a Somatic Story© personal development experience. The group was safely held, the pace was excellent, and she understood the material deeply. I appreciated her support and follow-up post the workshop. Miracles unfolded in the experience and all participants were deeply touched as we resonated with each other’s stories and healing. I confidently say that this was a masterfully facilitated workshop and a beautiful growth experience. The workshop was life-changing and I highly recommend it.“
Sheila Duchenne
Cape Town, Somatic Story© workshop participant.
“The workshop I participated in with Vasintha was deeply moving and transformative. I have shifted my understanding of my parents and resolved some deep childhood wounds. Vasintha holds the space with such gentleness and understanding.
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“The workshop I participated in with Vasintha was deeply moving and transformative. I have shifted my understanding of my parents and resolved some deep childhood wounds. Vasintha holds the space with such gentleness and understanding. I felt safe enough to be vulnerable and to work through some difficult issues.“
Professor Adrian van Breda
Head of Department, Social Work and Community Development University of Johannesburg, 2020-2023
“Vasintha Pather has been an executive coach to me since 2020 and an organisational facilitator to my team since 2019. She has a warm, empathic and grounded approach to people. Her use of a wide
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“Vasintha Pather has been an executive coach to me since 2020 and an organisational facilitator to my team since 2019. She has a warm, empathic and grounded approach to people. Her use of a wide range of creative media and activities has been highly effective in slipping past defences and enabling us to access insights and change that would not have been possible through more traditional talk methods. She has given me the tools, confidence and skills to incorporate some of these methods into my day-to-day leadership of my team, which has brought light and air into our relationships, and enabled some people who were previously on the margins to step closer into the centre. Vasintha works with the whole person and the whole team (the system), showing a remarkable capacity to move between micro-meso-macro levels, to connect hidden dots and to leverage resources from one part of the system in service of another. In so doing, she tangibly shifts the dynamics of the system, of relationships and of individuals. Her social justice foundation enables her to recognise power and social justice issues at play in teams and to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions and group dynamics.”
Nobantu Masebalanga
HR Executive, Liberty Group
“Throughout my life I have interacted with many individuals who have played a critical role in shaping my destiny; I count Vasintha as one of my lanterns; a guiding light who helped me navigate a
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“Throughout my life I have interacted with many individuals who have played a critical role in shaping my destiny; I count Vasintha as one of my lanterns; a guiding light who helped me navigate a very challenging phase in my life. We met through a project that we were both very passionate about: a women’s coaching programme. Although I was the programme sponsor, it was also critical for me to participate in the process. Through creative processes, Vasintha created a safe space for us to go deeper and unpack issues that prevented us from unleashing our potential.”
Althea Moret
Cape Town, Somatic Story© workshop participant
“I recently attended a Family Constellations process workshop with Vasintha and it was a profound experience. Vasintha’s knowledge and expertise is evident in how she holds space for participants/ The insights I gained are valuanle
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“I recently attended a Family Constellations process workshop with Vasintha and it was a profound experience. Vasintha’s knowledge and expertise is evident in how she holds space for participants/ The insights I gained are valuanle and enriching to my personal growth. Thank you Vasintha for creating such a transformational experience!”
Sumaya Singh
Leadership coaching
“I have more gratitude, a silent strength and a new determination to make a difference. I am able to have a strategic conversation and talk about my capabilities and aspirations. I feel empowered and privileged…
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“I have more gratitude, a silent strength and a new determination to make a difference. I am able to have a strategic conversation and talk about my capabilities and aspirations. I feel empowered and privileged… The courage to stand up, as a female, potent yet powerful!”
Disclaimer: Although I am a licensed psychotherapist, the resources and courses on this website are not mental health therapy or medical advice and they do not put us in a therapeutic relationship. Any courses and offerings are extensions of my research, training and experience. They are for educational and personal development purposes.
Fee Statement: Courses and resources are priced to reflect the value of the material and the costs to create them. If you are a BIPOC and financially unable to pay the full rates, please contact me. Payment options and scholarships are available. This does not apply to working with me as a psychotherapist, coach or organisational consultant. The professional relationship and rates are agreed on an individual or organisational basis.
Fee Statement: Courses and resources are priced to reflect the value of the material and the costs to create them. If you are a BIPOC and financially unable to pay the full rates, please contact me. Payment options and scholarships are available. This does not apply to working with me as a psychotherapist, coach or organisational consultant. The professional relationship and rates are agreed on an individual or organisational basis.