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About Farhana Goga — Registered Psychologist, Johannesburg

25 Years of Experience Working With Individuals and Couples

Farhana Goga is a registered psychologist (HPCSA No. PS0072966) based in Rosebank, Johannesburg, with more than 25 years of experience in the field.

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Her work focuses on helping people shift the emotional patterns, responses, and dynamics that are keeping them stuck — not just in how they understand their experiences, but in how they actually live them.

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She works with individuals navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and life transitions, and with couples working through relationship difficulties, communication breakdowns, and the dynamics that keep them locked in the same cycles.

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Her approach is integrative, brain-based, and relational — drawing on a broad range of evidence-based and trauma-informed modalities, tailored to what each person or couple is working through.

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Therapy sessions are available in person in Rosebank, Johannesburg, and online for clients across South Africa.

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Farhana Goga — registered psychologist, Rosebank Johannesburg

How Farhana Works: An Approach built for Lasting Change

Many people who come to therapy have already reflected extensively on what they are experiencing. They understand it intellectually. And yet certain patterns, emotional responses, or relationship dynamics continue to repeat.

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This is where Farhana's work is distinctive.

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Rather than focusing only on insight and understanding, her approach works directly with how experiences are held in the brain and nervous system — where many of the patterns that shape our responses are actually formed.

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By integrating talk therapy with brain-based and relational approaches, change becomes something that is experienced in real life — not just understood in the therapy room.

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Clients often describe her as thoughtful, direct, and genuinely invested in their progress. The work is focused, purposeful, and tailored to each individual.

Background and Career

Farhana has worked as a psychologist across a range of settings over her career — in the private sector, government, and parastatal environments — in roles spanning clinical practice, consulting, and research.

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She has been in private practice in Johannesburg for many years, working with individuals and couples from diverse backgrounds and life stages.

 

In 2021, she expanded her work to include The School of Expansion — a separate offering for people who are ready to move from healing into deliberate growth in their lives, money, businesses, and relationships. Phase 1 is focused on business owners and professionals. 

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Qualifications and Training

 

Formal Academic Education - UKZN:

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Registered Psychologist in South Africa since 2001 HPCSA Registration No. PS0072966 | PR No. 0218197

  • B.A. (Economic History and Psychology)

  • B.A. Honours (Cultural and Media Studies)

  • B.A. Honours (Psychology)

  • M.A. (Psychology)

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Specialist Clinical Training

 

The following represent Farhana's fully accredited clinical training in specialised therapeutic modalities:

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  • Brainspotting — Certified Practitioner, Level 3 | Masterclass with David Grand | Specialist training in trauma, addictions, adoption, self as therapist, money, and parts work, expansion

  • BWRT (Brain Working Recursive Therapy) — Advanced Practitioner | BBRS Registered | Specialist training including depression, anxiety, identity, neural manifestation, procrastination, major life reset, smashing limits, and borderline personality

  • Interactional Pattern Analysis — Level 1,2, 3

  • HeartMath — Practitioner & Coach (HM LLC & HMSA)

  • Systemic Constellations — Facilitator

  • Enneagram — Practitioner for Individuals and Teams (Integrative Solutions)

  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples 

  • Encounter-Centred Couples Transformation (ECCT) 

  • Interactional Couples Therapy

  • Gottman Method — Level 1

  • Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT/Tapping) — L3

  • Strategic Women in Leadership — HIRS

  • Sacred Money Archetypes Coach

  • Financial Trauma Coach

  • Hypnotherapy L1

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Additional Modalities/Informed By:

Farhana's practice is also informed by the following:

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  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

  • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

  • Hypnotherapy

  • EMDR

  • Schema Therapy

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

  • Positive Psychology

  • Equine Assisted Psychotherapy

  • Pairs Essentials

  • Body Spin (Life Alignment)

  • Metaphysics (the study of the Soul)

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