About Life Threads Therapy
Life’s journey is not a linear path but often a web of unforeseen circumstances that can divert you from your ideal destination. At Life Threads Therapy, you can navigate these challenges within a supportive and nurturing therapeutic space. In the safe and confidential setting of our therapy sessions, clients have the opportunity to develop resilience, manage feelings of overwhelm, pursue personal aspirations, enhance emotional and psychological well-being, and foster healthy relationships to support them on their journey.
Life Threads Therapy is committed to cultural sensitivity and inclusivity, adapting its therapeutic approach to honour the values, traditions, and lived experiences of every client. Whether supporting children with big emotions or physical, intellectual, or neurodevelopmental disabilities, or helping adults navigate complex emotional landscapes, interventions are always individually tailored, person-centred, and family-oriented.
Collaboration is at the heart of Life Threads Therapy’s philosophy. The practice actively partners with GPs, paediatricians, psychiatrists, educators, and allied health professionals to ensure clients receive comprehensive, holistic support. By sharing insights and coordinating care, Life Threads Therapy creates a network around each client, addressing mental health, developmental, and social needs in a truly individualised manner. This multidisciplinary teamwork ensures that families gain access to a full spectrum of expertise and resources, resulting in stronger outcomes and a more empowering experience.
If you are seeking a warm, nurturing, and expert approach to mental health care—one that values your strengths, honours your journey, and supports healing at every stage—Life Threads Therapy is here to “yarn” with you.
About Bianca
Bachelor of Social Work, Master of Social Work with Specialisation in Play Therapy
My name is Bianca Van Ginkel (Botha) and as an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker with more than 26 years’ experience, I am dedicated to supporting children, adolescents, adults, and families as they navigate life’s challenges. What sets my practice apart is a deeply integrated therapeutic approach—combining play therapy and trauma-informed care with genuine respect for cultural backgrounds and each individual’s strengths. I tailor interventions that honour each client’s unique story, using play and somatic experiences, such as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), as a healing language and a bridge to emotional well-being. EMDR helps clients process traumatic memories in a safe and structured way, often leading to significant emotional relief.
As a trained play therapist, I help younger children express complex emotions they may struggle to articulate verbally through evidence-based techniques tailored to a child’s needs, such as sand play, art therapy, and puppetry.
Through the language of play—a medium inherently understood by children—play therapy facilitates coping with trauma, depression, anxiety, or grief. This approach promotes self-esteem and confidence, encourages creative problem-solving and decision-making skills, and models emotional regulation and empathy through role-play and guided activities.
With comprehensive knowledge of developmental milestones, I am able to adapt interventions for both children and parents effectively. I have received training in various parenting programmes and am committed to helping parents deepen their understanding and strengthen their relationship with their children.
Drawing on my experience in perinatal loss at a large tertiary hospital in South Africa, I strive to provide a warm and nurturing therapeutic space for women managing perinatal loss and/or postnatal depression. I work with mums and their families to help them understand and recover from these difficult experiences and foster secure attachment with their baby.
With a special interest in end-of-life care, I appreciate the privilege of helping clients find the healing gifts that can accompany death, loss, and life in ways that are more healing and more whole.
Meeting mortality well is a soul-task. It’s not easy, but it can be profound
~ Dr. Sarah Kerr, PhD.