My foundation is person-centred, integrative, holistic, and trauma-informed. My work may incorporate principles relating to trauma-informed counselling, nervous-system awareness and emotional regulation, mindfulness and grounding, body-based and trauma-sensitive practices, cognitive and behavioural strategies, strengths-based and solution-focused approaches, self-compassion and emotional awareness, psychoeducation, personal growth, goal-setting, and lifestyle design. I am particularly interested in helping people understand the connection between mind, body, emotions, behaviour, relationships, and lived experience.
An insight from my experience
“ You are more than what you survived. And healing is only one part of the story.
“ “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
“ If you are carrying more than you know how to hold right now, please remember this: the way you are responding makes sense in the context of what you have survived. You may feel exhausted, numb, overwhelmed, frightened, or completely without hope. But this moment does not have to become the rest of your story. Healing can begin very quietly—with one safe person, one honest conversation, one small choice to stay, to reach out, or to let yourself be supported. You do not have to undo everything today. You only have to take the next step toward safety, support, and the possibility that life can feel different from this.
“ Where there is a will, there is a way. No one is so broken that they cannot save themselves with the right support, resources, skills, practices, and time. Trauma does not have to be a life sentence. Whatever monsters haunt you, never let them take the light behind your eyes.
“ What is one way your past has taught you to respond in order to survive—and what response might you choose now, from a place of greater safety, freedom, and self-trust?
About me
Hello, I’m Marelize Krieg — and I help traumatised human beings bloom where they are planted. I’m a Specialist Wellness Counsellor (designated by the ASCHP) based in Cape Town, South Africa, working at the intersection of trauma recovery, post-traumatic growth, and nervous system healing. My work is rooted in a simple but powerful belief: you are not broken — you… ›››
Hello, I’m Marelize Krieg — and I help traumatised human beings bloom where they are planted. I’m a Specialist Wellness Counsellor (designated by the ASCHP) based in Cape Town, South Africa, working at the intersection of trauma recovery, post-traumatic growth, and nervous system healing. My work is rooted in a simple but powerful belief: you are not broken — you are responding exactly as a human nervous system does when it has been through too much, too fast, too soon. Through The Blooming Practice, I offer counselling, resources, and gentle, evidence-informed tools designed to help you move from survival mode into something softer, steadier… and eventually, stronger. My approach is not about fixing you.
It’s about helping you understand yourself, regulate your body, and reconnect with your capacity to heal.
Because trauma doesn’t just live in your thoughts — it lives in your body, your breath, your patterns, your pauses. That’s why my work weaves together: -Trauma-sensitive counselling
- Mindfulness and nervous system regulation
- Body-based practices for emotional safety and resilience
I don’t believe in forcing healing. I believe in creating the conditions and practices where it becomes possible. As a Specialist Wellness Counsellor, my primary aim is not to treat, but to improve, not to diagnose, but to screen (identify), and not to cure, but rather to care. I walk alongside you as you make sense of your experiences, develop healthier ways of coping, and rediscover your own strength. You are the expert on your life.
I simply help you hear yourself more clearly. And somewhere along the way, something shifts.
Not all at once.
Not perfectly.
But gently… steadily… Until one day, you realise:
You’re not just surviving anymore… You’re learning… You’re adapting… You’re growing… You’re thriving. Because healing isn’t about becoming someone new.
It’s about returning to who you were before the world told you to shrink.
Or perhaps… becoming someone even more rooted, more resilient, more alive than before. At The Blooming Practice, we don’t rush the process.
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Discounted Matching Session (30 Minutes): R 100.00
Individual Session (30 Minutes): R 165.00
Individual Session (60 Minutes): R 330.00 ‹‹‹
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