Why TSD
Therapeutic Skills Development (TSD) offers primary and preventative coaching, counselling, and consultation services, in addition to supportive vocational rehabilitative occupational therapy with the aim to attain and maintain mental and physical wellness while addressing issues of vocational stress and professional burnout, performance management, team dynamic management, and process flow management.
TSD offers individual and group support, psychoeducation, and training on-site, electronically, and at the TSD practice, based on the client’s needs.
TSD’s wellness support comprises a systemic approach to health and wellbeing. Wellness support falls within the scope of health promotion, as it addresses a functional individual’s ability to achieve goals related to personal health and mental and emotional wellbeing.
The concept of function comprises:
1. An individual’s understanding and perception of his/her reality;
2. An individual’s level of self-awareness and self-knowledge;
3. The extent to which an individual exercises voluntary control over his/her environment;
4. An individual’s self-esteem and level of self-acceptance;
5. An individual’s capacity for interpersonal relationship establishment and maintenance;
6. An individual’s level of productivity.
TSD addresses these components of functioning within the framework of the World Health Organisation’s conception of a state of wellbeing, whereby an individual realises his/her own abilities, copes with normal stresses of life, works positively and fruitfully, and makes a contribution to his/her community. As such, wellbeing and wellness speak to the ability to manage stress, maximise potential, and participate in society, while acquiring resources and establishing protective factors to bolster an individual against vulnerability to certain stressors and threats to wellbeing.
TSD approaches wellness support as a continuum of care, from primary preventative interventions to tertiary rehabilitative support measures. As such, the following services are offered:
1. Needs analysis and intervention design;
2. Wellness coaching;
3. Performance coaching;
4. Supportive counselling;
5. Psychoeducation;
6. Vocational rehabilitation;
7. Return-to-work support;
8. Basic, intermediate, and advanced rehabilitative processes for physiological and psychiatric challenges.