Farhana Goga
Psychologist in Johannesburg | Online Therapy
Helping Individuals and Couples Change the Patterns That Keep Them Stuck
Farhana Goga: Psychologist with over 25 years of experience.
Rewire the patterns shaping how you think, feel and respond
Many of the challenges people experience: anxiety, relationship difficulties, emotional overwhelm, trauma responses, reactivity, or repeating life patterns are connected to ways the brain-body system has learned to keep you safe over time.
While these responses may have once served a purpose, they are not always the most helpful in the present.
Through therapy we work directly with these patterns so the way you respond to situations, relationships, and yourself can begin to change.
📍 Rosebank, Johannesburg
💻 Online Therapy
Therapeutic Services: Behaviour and Trauma
Emotional wellbeing
Anxiety and stress
Depression and mood disorders
Behavioural and emotional difficulties
Fears and phobias
Patterns and Trauma
Trauma responses or difficult past experiences
Repeating life patterns
Self-doubt or identity challenges
Therapeutic Services: Relationships and Life's Transitions
Relationships
Relationship challenges (family, partner, friends, work)
Marriage and partnership counselling
Life experiences
Grief and bereavement
Pregnancy and child loss
Life transitions and uncertainty
Why Brain-based, and Relationally based therapy creates lasting change
Many people come to therapy with a clear understanding of what they struggle with or what they want to change.
They may have reflected deeply, read extensively, or even tried different approaches to shift these patterns.
Yet certain reactions, emotional responses, or relationship dynamics can still repeat.
This is because many of these responses are not simply conscious choices.
They are patterns the brain and nervous system have learned over time.
These patterns influence how we react to stress, respond to triggers, experience relationships, and automatically interpret situations in the present — even when we know we would like to respond differently.
Brain-based therapy allows us to work directly with these patterns so they can begin to update and change.
This approach allows us to work not only with insight, but with how experiences are stored and processed in the brain and nervous system.
As these patterns shift, new and healthier responses can emerge more naturally.
This is where meaningful and lasting change becomes possible.
We will use a combination of Talk therapy, BWRT, Brainspotting, Emotion Freedom Technique, Family constellations, Gottman, Encounter Centred Couples Transformation, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Hypnosis and Visualisation.
About Me: Farhana
Farhana Goga is a registered psychologist with more than 20 years of experience working with individuals and couples.
Her work focuses on helping people understand the deeper patterns shaping their emotional responses, behaviours and relationships so that meaningful change becomes possible.
Farhana integrates psychological insight, brain-based therapeutic approaches, heart and soul modalities, all designed to help the brain and nervous system process experiences more effectively.
Clients often describe her approach as thoughtful, grounded, and deeply focused on transformation of patterns that influence how people experience themselves, their relationships, and the world around them.
Therapy sessions are available in person in Rosebank, Johannesburg, as well as online.