Dr Melanie Marx
Registered Counsellor

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Welcome to Dr Melanie Marx Counselling


Providing evidence-based psychological counselling to support and
promote emotional wellbeing and resilience across the lifespan.


Counselling approaches are grounded in current psychological research and tailored to each client’s unique goals.

Teen Counselling

Psychological support tailored for adolescents appropriate for their developmental stage, considering their individuality and guided by the teen’s identified goals.

Grief & Trauma Counselling

Evidence-based, trauma-informed psychological counselling to explore experiences of loss or trauma at a pace and depth appropriate to each individual.

Adult Counselling

A professional counselling service grounded in psychological research, offering a reflective space to explore emotional experiences, personal challenges, and coping approaches in accordance with each client’s individual priorities and goals.

Family Counselling

Family-based counselling support that considers relational dynamics and individual perspectives, with the focus of sessions shaped collaboratively to reflect the family’s structure, values, and needs.

Career Guidance & Assessment

Individual career guidance sessions

Psychometric assessment of interests, aptitudes, personality, and values.

Subject choice assessment available.

Online assessments available

Parent Guidance

Professional guidance to support parents in understanding their child’s emotional and developmental needs, and strengthening parent-child relationships.

I also work with children through play.

Dr. Melanie Marx is a registered counsellor with the HPCSA and holds the following qualifications: PhD in Psychiatry, MSc in Psychology, B Psych, BSc Honours in Psychology, and a BSc in Human Life Sciences with Psychology.


The practice is registered with the Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF), which allows clients to submit statements to their medical aid for possible reimbursement.

You can contact your medical aid to confirm available benefits using these details:

* Practice Number: 0840122
* Procedure Code: 81306
* ICD-10 Code: Z71.9