Dr Sonia Joubert Psychologist

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Dr Sonia Joubert Psychologist

I am a seasoned Psychologist, life coach and mentor. I deal with a wide variety of challenges. My workplace is in Linden, Randburg.

If you would like more info, please visit my website for more info. Find comfort, solutions and HOPE!

16/01/2026

RELEARNING JOY

Healing isn’t only about releasing pain - it’s about remembering joy.

When we’ve spent years surviving, joy can feel foreign or even unsafe. But joy is a natural part of being alive - it’s not frivolous, it’s restorative. It softens the nervous system and reminds us why healing matters.

Dr. Sonia Joubert invites clients to slowly rediscover joy through presence and curiosity. She reminds us that allowing light in doesn’t erase the dark - it teaches us to live fully in both.

Quote: “Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” - Karl Barth

14/01/2026

In Dr. Sonia Joubert’s new article, she explores anxiety as one of the most pervasive challenges of our time - a condition she understands both professionally and personally. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, and years of clinical experience, Dr. Sonia explains how anxiety develops, how chronic stress and elevated cortisol impact the brain, and why anxiety is rooted not in weakness but in habitual patterns of thought and self-talk.

Using the powerful metaphor of four “mental gremlins” - the Worrier, the Critic, the Victim, and the Perfectionist - she helps readers recognise the inner dialogues that fuel anxiety and keep it alive. Most importantly, the article offers hope through a simple, practical grounding technique based on mindfulness and the five senses, one Dr. Sonia uses in her own life and in her practice to help bring anxious minds back to the present moment.

This is not heavy psychology, but an honest, humane invitation to understand anxiety - and to begin loosening its grip.

The full article titled “DANGER! INGOZI! GEVAAR!” can be read on the Dr. Sonia Joubert Psychologist website (www.soniajoubert.com) Blog page as well as her page via the links in the bio.

12/01/2026

WHEN WORDS AREN’T ENOUGH

Sometimes what needs healing doesn’t have words yet.

Not all wounds can be explained. Some are held in the body, in breath, in silence. Talking helps, but so does allowing your nervous system to express what language cannot. Healing is as much felt as it is spoken.

Dr. Sonia Joubert integrates body-based and creative methods for clients who find that words alone can’t reach their pain. Through gentle exploration, she helps people translate what their body has been trying to say all along.

Quote: “The body says what words cannot.” – Martha Graham

09/01/2026

THE SPACE BETWEEN TRIGGERS AND CHOICE

Healing doesn’t erase triggers - it expands the space between them and your response.

Triggers are not signs of failure; they are invitations to awareness. They show us where old pain still lives and where new capacity can grow. In that brief space between reaction and response lies our freedom.

Dr. Sonia Joubert helps clients widen that space through mindful regulation and trauma-informed practices. Over time, what once overwhelmed can become a signal of where healing is taking root.

Quote: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our power to choose.” – Viktor Frankl

07/01/2026

WHY WE FEAR REST

Rest isn’t laziness, it’s nervous system repair.

Many people find it hard to rest because rest feels unsafe. Productivity becomes a shield against stillness, and exhaustion turns into a form of belonging. But the body and mind can only heal when we stop performing survival.

Dr. Sonia Joubert helps clients explore the emotional roots of their resistance to rest. Through somatic awareness and mindful slowing down, she teaches that rest is not a reward - it’s a right.

Quote: “Rest is not idleness. It is the soil from which strength grows.” – Unknown

05/01/2026

THE VALUE OF TENDERNESS

Strength doesn’t mean hardening - it means staying soft in a world that wounds.

Tenderness is often misunderstood as weakness, yet it is the deepest expression of courage. It takes immense strength to keep the heart open after pain, to choose empathy when anger feels safer. Tenderness transforms pain into wisdom and connection.

Dr. Sonia Joubert encourages clients to reclaim gentleness as a form of power. Through compassionate self-exploration, she helps people discover that softness is not fragility - it’s truth in motion.

Quote: “There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.” - Han Suyin

19/12/2025

Meet Dr Sonia Joubert 🌿

With over three decades of experience, Dr Sonia Joubert is a registered psychologist who has been supporting individuals, professionals, and families for 33 years. Based in Linden, Johannesburg, she offers psychological services alongside mentoring and life/business coaching.

Seeking therapy can feel daunting. Old myths still linger - that asking for help is a weakness or that therapy is only for “serious problems.” Dr Joubert believes the opposite: even emotionally healthy people don’t always have all the answers, and that’s completely human.

Her approach is warm, supportive, and grounding. Sessions are designed to feel safe, encouraging, and practical - with space for reflection, growth, and even a little humour along the way.

Sometimes, all you need is a little guidance. 🤍

12/12/2025

WHEN PEACE FEELS UNFAMILIAR

Sometimes calm feels uncomfortable - especially after a lifetime of chaos.

If you grew up in tension, peace can feel foreign. The absence of conflict might stir anxiety because your nervous system equates safety with vigilance. Healing means retraining the body to recognise calm not as danger, but as rest.

Dr. Sonia Joubert supports clients through this delicate reorientation. By creating a safe therapeutic space, she helps the nervous system learn what peace actually feels like. Over time, safety becomes a familiar friend instead of a strange visitor.

Quote: “After trauma, peace can feel like boredom until you learn it’s freedom.” – Unknown

10/12/2025

LISTENING TO THE QUIET SELF

Beneath the noise of daily life, there is a quiet self whispering what you truly need.

Most of us move through life responding to demands and expectations, rarely pausing to hear the softer inner voice that carries our truth. This voice isn’t loud - it’s subtle, intuitive, and patient. When we make space for stillness, we allow it to guide us toward balance, authenticity, and peace.

Dr. Sonia Joubert helps clients reconnect with this inner compass through mindfulness, depth work, and presence-based therapy. Healing often begins not with answers, but with deep listening - to the self beneath the noise.

Quote: “In the silence of listening, you can know yourself.” – John C. Lilly

19/11/2025

THE GIFT OF IMPERFECTION

Wholeness doesn’t mean flawless - it means fully human.

We often chase an imagined version of ourselves - the healed, composed, enlightened self. But perfection is the great disconnection. Healing asks us to embrace the messy, contradictory parts of our humanity.

Dr. Sonia Joubert reminds her clients that integration, not idealisation, is the goal. The cracks are not flaws to be fixed - they are places where light enters. You are allowed to be a work in progress and still be whole.

Quote: “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” - Leonard Cohen

17/11/2025

THE BODY REMEMBERS SAFETY

Healing begins the moment your body feels safe enough to exhale.

Our bodies store experiences long after the mind has moved on. When safety has been interrupted, even calm can feel foreign. Relearning safety is not about forcing relaxation - it’s about allowing trust to return slowly, through gentle presence.

Dr. Sonia Joubert supports clients in restoring this felt sense of safety through somatic awareness and compassion. The goal isn’t to erase memory, but to re-educate the nervous system: you are safe now.

Quote: “The body says what words cannot.” – Martha Graham

09/10/2025

THIS WORK IS FOR YOU, TOO

Therapy isn’t just for when you’re in crisis – it’s for when you’re ready to grow.

Many people wait until they’re overwhelmed, burnt out, or breaking down to seek support. But emotional work is also proactive. It helps us cultivate resilience, deepen relationships, and move through life with more clarity. You don’t have to wait until things fall apart to begin healing.

Dr. Sonia Joubert offers a warm, non-judgmental space where people can explore not only their wounds, but their potential. Whether you’re navigating change, chasing growth, or simply longing for deeper connection – this work is for you.

Quote: "You don’t have to be broken to benefit from therapy." – Unknown

Address

47 4th Street, Linden
Johannesburg
2195

Website

http://www.thinkingfit.co.za/, https://soniajoubert.com/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/drsoniajoubertpsychologist/

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