Our Team
We bring different perspectives but share a common focus: helping people feel more connected to themselves and to each other. Our work combines psychological insight with real-world experience to create a meaningful learning and change environment.
Charles Clark
FounderI work in private practice as a registered counsellor with the Health Professions Council of South Africa, specializing in couples therapy and relationship-focused work.
My work with distressed couples focuses on helping them move beyond the surface content of their difficulties, allowing them to recognize and name the deeper emotional patterns and undercurrents that drive conflict and disconnection.
I came to this work later in life, and my training marked the beginning of a deeper process of understanding not only the nature of human relationships, but also how I experience my own.
It is often said that to teach is to learn twice, and I have found that the work of therapy carries something similar. It continually challenges me — asking hard questions about how I regulate my own emotional life, how I relate, and what it means to love.
It is this engagement with my inner world, in all its complexity, that has, over time, broadened my inner “bandwidth,” allowing me to meet others with greater compassion and understanding. It is my personal struggles, in this internal arena, where theory has crystalized into something lived, and that the work with others has become real.
My approach is grounded in attachment theory, with additional training in Emotion-Focused Therapy through the International Centre for Excellence in Emotion-Focused Therapy and Schema Therapy through the International Society of Schema Therapy.
Barbara Sheet
Instructor and ChefI completed my pastry diploma in 2009 at the Food and Beverage Institute in Johannesburg. After relocating to Montagu, I founded Supper Club, which initially began as a gathering of former Joburg residents meeting once a month. This group has since expanded from 8 to between 40 and 60 Montagu locals, who enjoyed a three-course buffet meal twice a month.
Supper Club resumed after Covid once people felt comfortable socializing again. We decided to hold it once a month, and attendance gradually climbed back to between 35 and 65 participants.
We cater private functions and host events at my residence, where we can accommodate 60 guests indoors. For the past six years, we have catered Christmas Day lunch, starting with 20 people and hosting up to 90 two years ago. Additionally, we prepare complete meals for several families on Christmas Day, allowing them to collect them to take home.
Our frozen food business has flourished, providing around 500 meals a month. We take pride in our understanding of customers' dietary needs, ensuring we produce only quality meals. If we cannot source a particular ingredient, we won’t make that dish. We exclusively use free-range chicken and pork, grass-fed beef, and avoid preservatives. We craft our own tomato sauces as a base for many dishes and roast our own spices for curries, among other preparations.
Carike Kriel
I’m Carike, a psychoeducational facilitator who leads workshops on a range of mental health topics. I’m also a psychosocial support counsellor with a BSocSci (Hons) in Psychology. My work is rooted in a deep curiosity about what shapes us, how we love, how we protect ourselves, and how we find our way back to connection.
Alongside my formal training, I’ve specialized in grief counseling and parenting coaching. These experiences have deepened my understanding of the many ways people navigate loss, identity, and relationships.
I have a particular passion for attachment theory and nervous system science. I’m fascinated by how our early experiences echo through our adult relationships and how, with awareness and compassion, those patterns can begin to shift.
My approach is gentle, curious, and deeply human. I aim to help people make sense of their inner world, not as something to fix, but as something to understand. Because when we understand ourselves more clearly, we begin to show up differently, with more softness, more honesty, and a little more space to breathe together.
Psychoeducational Facilitator