Dr Hannes Venter maintains a goal-informed, patient and empathic approach as a Clinical and Neuropsychologist, with a focus on achieving positive outcomes for his clients. From a Clinical Psychology perspective, he has a special interest in working with clients with anxiety and mood difficulties, as well as those clients struggling with their self-esteem. Hannes has extensive experience providing assessment and evidenced-based intervention to assist with a variety of other mental health presentations, including psychological trauma and stressor related presentations, OCD, sleep-wake disorders, substance related disorders, neurocognitive disorders, borderline personality disorder, bariatric surgery, and mental health difficulties related to physical conditions or injury.
From a neuropsychology perspective, Hannes has a strong background in neuropsychological assessment of a variety of conditions, especially acquired brain injury. Mild to severe traumatic brain injury has been a significant focus of his clinical work over the last 5 years as part of multi-disciplinary rehabilitation approach of these conditions. These presentations were often complicated by other injury related factors such as mental health difficulties, chronic pain, mental health, neurodevelopmental concerns, neurological history, and so forth. He also has experience in the assessment of adult ADHD, ASD, and ID.
Hannes maintains an integrative approach to the use of psychological intervention aimed at getting the best outcomes for his clients depending on their needs. This means using a variety of evidence based approached to this purpose, which includes Transdiagnostic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Schema Therapy, and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.
Providing assessment and intervention is managed from a client-centric, collaborative perspective with a focus on practical, real-life application of intervention. Hannes therefore has a strong focus on not only the time in sessions, but also the time between sessions and practicing at home and in other environments. This helps to address any mental health difficulties effectively and establishes the skills learnt as habitual ways of dealing with challenging emotions, thoughts and situations.
Hannes is an AHPRA and NZPB registered psychologist with endorsements for both clinical and neuropsychology. He has over 20 years of experience in the delivery of diverse psychological services to adults from a variety of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds in both New Zealand and South Africa. He has focused on working in diverse multi-disciplinary settings for most of his career, helping with mild to severe mental health difficulties, as well as those with acquired brain injuries. He has worked in both inpatient and community-based setting.