OUR CLINICAL FOUNDER

Quiet and present, yet piercingly intense, our Clinical Founder works from a place of visceral knowledge and extensive training that lets people feel seen. Drawn to what most avoid —addiction, trauma, and the shadowed corners of the mind— he stays with difficulty until it is ready to speak. Shaped in South Africa amid histories of violent rupture and rebirth, and refined through psychoanalytic practice, his listening is precise and deeply human.

His work is explicitly trauma-informed. Through a psychoanalytic lens, wounds are seen as relational and developmental; when early holding fails, people build lives around a void. Treatment becomes a held, honest space where defenses soften, grief can surface, and meaning can take form. He carries an ethic of Ubuntu —we become through one another— treating belonging and connection as medicine, and non-belonging as a wound worthy of care.

His approach is rigorous and human: not looking away, bearing witness to what the world has done, and staying long enough for recognition to become a felt presence on the inside. Forged with the Affinity Novandi team, the aim is not to erase pain, but to give it shape and ripen the conditions for wisdom and change.