

Background
Adré Potgieter is a registered Social Worker with over 30 years of experience in the field of child and family welfare.
She served as a School Psychologist at a high school for eight years before transitioning into private practice, where she provided counselling and leadership training to management teams across five different schools.
Adré lived and worked in London for 20 years and also spent two years in the Netherlands, gaining rich international experience. She is an internationally registered ICR Neuro-Life Coach, trained in various therapeutic modalities, and is currently completing her qualification as a TRE® (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises) practitioner.
Specializing in trauma and burnout recovery, Adré works with both children and adults, helping clients move from merely surviving to truly thriving. She integrates into her work her extensive therapeutic background with life coaching, embodied in her personal motto:
Healing the past, shaping the future

Experience
Adré has a wide range of experience in the following areas:
- ADHD
- Depression and Anxiety (panic attacks)
- Neglect and abuse (sexual, emotional and physical)
- Trauma therapy (Eye movement integration, brain spotting & Multi-level Neuro-processing)
- Disciplinary issues( parental guidance)
- Bullying
- Crisis intervention
- Addictive behavior: alcohol & drugs
- Teenage pregnancies & abortions
- Self-harming behavior
- Loss of a loved one
- Depression & suicidal thoughts
- Relationship difficulties (i.e. Parents, adolescents, marriages, friendships, divorce)
- Eating disorders
- Burnout
- “Career Direct” assessments – guidance in subject and vocational choices via a series of online assessments measuring:
- Personality
- Vocation( general interests)
- Skills & abilities
- Values
