Camphor Resilience Centre for Trauma Training, Counselling and Coaching (CRCTC) is a dedicated private centre offering trauma-informed counselling, recovery support, life coaching, education and programme development. Established on 1 January 2025, the Centre provides a structured, confidential space where people can receive personalised support for healing, resilience and purposeful growth.

Our Purpose

CRCTC exists to walk alongside people who are carrying the effects of trauma, life stress, loss, behavioural challenges or difficult seasons. The Centre recognises that healing is deeply personal. It offers compassionate support while helping people build insight, restore stability and take practical steps forward.

The Meaning of Camphor Resilience Centre

Camphor

Camphor is associated with soothing, restoration and renewal. It reflects the Centre’s hope that people can find a safe place to pause, recover and begin again.

Resilience

Resilience is the capacity to recover, adapt and continue after adversity. The Centre supports people not only to address the impact of difficult experiences, but also to develop strength, clarity and resources for life ahead.

Centre

The word Centre reflects a real, dedicated place of care: a calm, private setting where people can access professional, personalised support.

Our Approach

CRCTC is trauma-informed, person-centred and integrative. Each person’s story, needs and pace are respected. Support may draw on Applied Metapsychology, Trauma Incident Reduction, Life Stress Reduction, Ability Enhancement, life coaching, reflective conversation and Christian counselling, according to the service and the client’s needs.

The Centre works with emotional, cognitive, behavioural, relational and spiritual dimensions of wellbeing. It does not reduce people to labels, diagnoses or what has happened to them. The focus is on understanding, recovery, resilience and meaningful next steps.

Services at the Centre

• Trauma counselling and recovery support for children, teenagers and adults.
  • Camphor Resilience Centre for Trauma Training Counselling and Coaching
• Bereavement support following the death of a loved one.
• Critical-incident support and stabilisation.
• Outpatient addiction recovery support.
• Life coaching for resilience, identity, balance, purpose and practical planning.
• Christian formation, couples enrichment, courses and learning programmes.
• Training, facilitation development and supervised internship pathways.

Our Values

• Compassion - meeting every person with empathy, dignity and care.
• Respect - honouring privacy, agency, lived experience and individual pace.
• Integrity - maintaining clear ethical boundaries and responsible scope of practice.
• Integration - considering the whole person and the connections between life experiences.
• Hope - creating room for restoration, resilience and renewed purpose.

The Centre Environment

CRCTC is based at 125 Apiesdoorn Street, Merriespruit, Virginia, Free State, South Africa, 9430. Sessions are offered in person at the Centre and online by arrangement. The environment is intentionally calm, private and welcoming for individual work, learning and focused conversation.

The Centre is not a residential or in-house treatment facility. Two guest rooms may be available by prior arrangement for people travelling from a distance who need to attend early, evening or consecutive sessions. This is accommodation only and not residential treatment.

A Centre for Growth and Development

In addition to individual client work, CRCTC develops programmes, resources and training pathways. Bridge Education, Training and Development brings together learning programmes and courses, including the Care Facilitation Course. The future protected Learn website will provide registered clients and learners with programme-specific information and resources.