Harry de Jong, Clinical Psychologist
Harry is an experienced psychologist in the fields of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, burnout, resilience building, and psychosomatic conditions.
Besides more than 8000 hours of active counselling, Harry has also mentored students of psychology, acted as external marker for psychology students at university, prepared lecturing material, as well as presented workshops on a variety of topics. He is currently completing a clinical psychology bridging programme.
Besides his many accomplishments, Harry is also a supportive, approachable and warm-hearted therapist who is very easy to talk to. He is passionate about the enhancement of overall well-being, and fostering resilience and happiness for all. Harry prefers a collaborative and holistic approach to body-mind-life wellness.
Healing Trauma, PTSD, Anxiety and Somatic Disorders
Harry has years of experience in working with PTSD and trauma (including early life and complex trauma), and helping clients overcome the flashbacks, nightmares, stress, anxiety, depression, and interpersonal challenges that result from it. Harry is highly skilled in not only helping clients overcome acute or longstanding complex trauma with the use of EMDR and other mixed-modality approahces, but also particularly in helping clients integrate experiences, grow from them, gain greater self-insight and ultimately live more authentically and free.
He specialises in the new body-based trauma focussed treatment models which have shown exceptional promise in studies for it's efficacy in overcoming long-standing, tenacious traumas and their impact on the whole person. Consequently, therapy also often leads to spontaneous improvement in somatic disorders such as IBS, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, headaches, and chronic fatigue disorder.
Harry believes that an individual is a holistic being and well-being or the lack of it happens in a social-body-mind-emotional milieu. In this context, Harry aims to foster resilience, insight and inner strength to better cope with current and also future challenges. Bear in mind that therapy is unique to each person and recovery depends on a variety of factors, some of them medical.
EMDR Therapy for Trauma, PTSD, Anxiety,
EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is one of the most effective types of treatment for PTSD and Trauma. Moreover, it has proven effectiveness also for other difficult conditions such as generalised anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, depression, phobias and pain conditions.
EMDR is a structured psychotherapy designed to alleviate distress from traumatic memories by using bilateral stimulation (such as eye movements) while focusing on negative memories. It helps the brain reprocess and desensitise to difficult persistent thoughts and memories. Trauma memories tend to be stored differently from other memories making them difficult to process or make sense of, but easy to be triggered by cues in daily life. Traumatic experiences can also leave people with negative thoughts about themselves. EMDR helps process trauma memories allowing natural healing to take place.
As trauma is processed in a safe and measured way, it allows the natural healing powers of the brain to move toward adaptive resolution. Research has shown over and over that through bilateral stimulation, a natural healing process is facilitated and completed in the safe environment of your therapist’s room.
Along with other somatic therapies, Harry is trained in EMDR to provide help for a variety of tenacious conditions that may have persisted despite otherwise effective traditional therapies.
Mindfulness
Harry works holistically with his clients and often incorporate Mindfulness strategies and Meditation to enhance the gains made with other modalities.
Mindfulness-based strategies may be used to effectively enhance relaxation, reduce stress, and help manage chronic physical or emotional pain.
To read more about Mindfulness please click here.
Areas of Practice
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Life challenges and changes
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Perfectionism
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Performance and Sport Anxiety
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Executive Coaching
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Positive Psychology
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Overcoming mental obstacles
Qualifications & Professional Associations
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Master of Clinical Psychology (post-registration Master's degree) (2025)
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M.Ed: Educational Psychology (2013)
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B.Ed (Hons): Educational Psychology (2008)
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Registered Practitioner Psychologist, Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA)
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Registered Psychologist, Australia Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
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Member of the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (AAPI)