MINDFUL CAPE TOWN
Tracy Kruger
Clinical Psychologist | Adults & Couples
Tracy left the corporate world to pursue her calling as a psychologist. Her corporate
experience as well as her work in the field of psychology has shaped how she works as a
therapist. Tracy has a deep understanding of life transitions and has a concern for those
struggling with addiction, mood difficulties, anxiety, eating disorders, parenting, couple
dynamics, work complications, loneliness, burn out and trauma. She also has an interest
sport psychology and the pressure that comes with this space. She adopts a
compassionately curious approach and enjoys thinking together with her clients to
creatively navigate the difficulties they are facing.
Tracy works from a self-psychology frame and in doing so she attempts to create a unique, empathic relationship with each of her clients and prefers this to diagnosis and
pathologising struggles. She adopts a relational approach and moves between understanding her client’s histories and developmental injuries as well as offering some
ideas and suggestions that are practical and helpful in the present.
Therapy with Tracy is warm and safe.
There will be playful and painful moments all of which are focused on growth and healing and being heard and understood.
More about Tracy
Tracy obtained her undergraduate and honours degree cum laude at the University of
Johannesburg. She then completed her master’s degree, and her thesis was based on a
gratitude intervention she did with a large group of 16-year-old grade 10 students
using a positive psychology framework. Tracy completed her internship at Weskoppies in Pretoria and her community service training at Tara in the child and adolescent unit. This training and her community work largely informs her compassion for disadvantaged communities and making an impact in a more systemic way. She has presented a talk on “Sport for Healing” which focused on how sport and activity together with psychology and psychiatry can work together to heal hurting children.
She is a member of the Cape Town Psychoanalytic Self Psychology Group where she also
served on the committee for 3 years. She completed a one-year programme at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York and consulted at two addiction facilities in Cape Town. She also lectured for a few years but now prefers to do supervision with young psychologists and counsellors in her practice.