Katherine van Heerden Psychology Practice

Katherine van Heerden Psychology Practice Katherine Van Heerden Psychology is a family practice set in the most beautiful tranquil farm surrounds.

Katherine has a passion for children, adults, families, couples and horses but above a deep love to help people.

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We talk about wanting creative, curious, confident thinkers, yet the way we teach young children often does the opposite.

Creativity and problem-solving don’t grow from worksheets, crafts, or "measurable results." They grow from experimentation, flexibility, and play. When learning becomes about right and wrong, children stop taking risks. They stop wondering. They learn to please rather than to think.

The data is clear that play-based environments build stronger executive functioning, lower stress, and spark higher motivation. Creativity, one of the strongest predictors of future innovation by-the-way, thrives when children are free to explore and make mistakes. But when we overstructure early learning, we train compliance instead of curiosity, and that has lifelong consequences.

The foundation of learning is not rote drills, worksheets, crafts, memorization, or performance. It is the process — the trial and error, the problem solving, the self-discovery that builds the brain for all future learning.

If we want lifelong learners, we have to stop valuing products over process and start protecting the very experiences that grow creative, resilient, and adaptable minds.

Join us for our upcoming webinar, “Rethinking Early Learning: More Than Crafts and Worksheets,” where we’ll explore how real learning happens and why play-based, brain-aligned experiences create the outcomes we actually want to see (Nov 26, 2025 12:00 PM EST).

FREE REPLAY FOR EVERYONE WHO SIGNS UP!

Join for FREE: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DfJ26HjERJSlS4BOhSgQ8w #/registration

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Ruimsig, Roodepoort
Johannesburg
1734

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Monday 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00

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