Shift the pattern
align the path

Hi! I am Gill.

I have seen how different life can be when you are energised and fulfilled by the work that you do!

I believe that everyone, no matter what age, is deserving of a career that makes them happy. And it's never too late to start listening to your own insight so that you can craft a life that is better aligned with who you are.

Credentials:

  1. BA Child Psychology (UJ)

    Cum Laude
  2. BA Honours Psychology (UJ)

    Cum Laude
  3. Registered as a Psychometrist

     
  4. Industrial Psychology for non-degree purposes (Unisa)

    Undergrad and Honours
  5. MCom Industrial Psychology (University of North West)

    Cum Laude / Student of the Year
  6. Registered as Industrial Psychologist

     
  7. Career Craft Private Practice

     
What we do

CareerCraft exists for the people who know something’s not working, but don’t know what to do next. We help individuals and teams get unstuck, rethink what’s possible, and create work lives that feel more energising, authentic, and sustainable. With the right mix of psychology, coaching, and brain-based change work, we go deeper than generic advice — and get you moving in the right direction.

Services

Each persons’ career challenge is unique, and thus there isn’t a one size fits all process. CareerCraft endeavors to be a partner on YOUR career journey by providing you with multiple access points to a variety of innovative and impactful solutions that will best meet YOUR needs.

All our services (assessments, workshops or career coaching) are effective on their own or in combination. All our processes start with an initial career coaching session, where your career needs can be understood and options and costs can be explored.

Accreditations:

Inner Life Skills Accredited Coach (2017)
Integrative Enneagram Coach and Team Facilitator (2017)
Martha Beck Accredited Coach (2018)
Career Practitioner registration with SACDA
BWRT® Level 1 and 2: Advanced Practitioner (2022)
I am a
Corporate
  • Career Coaching
  • Workshops
  • Psychometric Assessments
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I am a
Learner
  • One on one coaching
  • In-person/online group workshops
  • Integrated online journeys
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I am an
Individual
  • Career Coaching
  • Professional Development
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BrainWorking
Recursive Therapy®
  • A modern neuroscience-based process to help your brain replace unhelpful patterns with better ones
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Professional Development for Career Practitioners

(Psychometrists, Psychologists, Registered Counsellors, Interns)

I find deep joy in sharing my knowledge and supporting other practitioners in honing their skills and confidence by offering tailored workshops, CPD events, supervision and mentoring.

Pop me a mail to find out more

I am a Corporate

Career Coaching / Counselling


When people are stuck, overwhelmed, or misaligned in their roles, it shows in performance, motivation, team dynamics, and mental well-being. My style of coaching helps individuals reconnect with their strengths, shift unhelpful patterns, and take ownership of their growth, so they can lead themselves (and others) more effectively.

Whether it's a high-potential employee who's lost momentum, a leader under pressure, or a team member struggling with confidence or change, I work at the level where behaviour actually shifts. Using proven methods like BWRT® and the Enneagram, I help people move beyond just getting by.

Where I have seen it help:

  • Less avoidance of the hard conversations
  • Less hiding, more showing up with presence and confidence
  • Less second-guessing, and more stepping up
  • Less “I can’t cope,” more “I’ve got this”
  • Less resistance and negativity

What people have said:

“I have grown so much in this process, I show up more authentically, present and confident”
“It has helped me move past difficult experiences, so I can show up more fully”
“I am less reactive, I think now before I respond”

Corporate workshops


At CareerCraft, workshops are more than just content — they’re experiences designed to spark real, lasting change. Every session blends insight, honest reflection, and practical tools, with the added power of BWRT® to help shift the deeper patterns that often block growth. This means teams don’t just learn what to do differently — they actually feel more able to do it.

Workshops are available as once-off sessions or as part of a curated learning series. They can be delivered in-person, online, or integrated into existing learning platforms for a more flexible, self-paced experience.

Some popular topics include:

  • Mastering the art of relationships at work
  • Knowing yourself, understanding others (Enneagram / MBTI)
  • Recognising your triggers & managing boundaries
  • Personal stress triggers and shifting your response
  • Career management in a changing world

What people have said:

“I feel more calm, relaxed and ready for what's ahead”
“I feel more focused”
“I feel empowered”

Psychometric Assessments


  • Selection
  • Development

A comprehensive range of psychometric assessments and services to assist in the selection and development of staff.

Services include:

  • Test battery selection
  • Test administration and scoring
  • Interpretation and integrated report writing
  • Management and candidate feedback

I am accredited in the following assessment instruments:

  • Cognitive Process Profile (CPP)
  • Learning Potential Computer Adaptive
  • Test (LPCAT)
  • 16 Personality Factor (16PF)
  • Firo-B
  • Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ)
  • WAVE
  • Psytech range (GRT2, CRTB2, TTB, OPP,15FQ etc)
  • Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQi)
  • English Literacy Skills Assessment (ELSA)
  • Differential Aptitude Test (DAT)
  • Ravens Progressive Matrices
  • DPSA Accredited
  • Integrative Enneagram
  • Integrative Enneagram Team Facilitation
  • TEIQue
  • Cut-e Range
  • Psycruit / Clevry

Get in touch and we can craft an option that best suits your needs.

For more information: Download brochure

I am a learner

Career Journey Workshops


Young adults are often under significant pressure to make a career choice. They see this choice as one decision that will affect their entire lives. There are more options and additional pressures than ever before and the number of students that drop out after the first year of university increases each year.

Building the skills of career decision-making is core to navigating your career journey. In this way you are more mindful of your experiences, can attune to your needs, and adjust and adapt where necessary.

CareerCraft offers one on one coaching, in-person/online group workshops as well as integrated online journeys that cover the following:

  • Knowing myself more deeply
  • Recognising where I am excited and curious
  • Acknowledging my strengths and capabilities
  • Clarifying my preferences and values
  • Learning how to apply this understanding to my career research
  • How to set the direction going forward and adjust where necessary
  • Study application support through the Bridge solution.

Buried in our hearts is a powerful knowing of how we wish to serve the world. Sometimes it just takes knowing where to look.

Get in touch and I can direct you to the option that best suits your needs.

For more information: Download brochure

I am an individual

Career Coaching / Counselling


There comes a point in your career where the “just push through” approach stops working. You feel stuck, frustrated, or disconnected — but not quite sure how to move forward. Maybe you’ve outgrown your job, lost confidence after burnout, or feel like you’re going through the motions in something that once made sense.

It’s common to get caught in the trap of waiting — waiting until things get worse, until you’re “ready,” or until you feel more certain. You might tell yourself: I’m too old to start over. I’m lucky to have a job. I can’t afford to take a risk. So you stay… but feel less and less like yourself.

This kind of stuckness doesn’t go away on its own — but it’s absolutely possible to shift. That’s where coaching comes in.

I help people reconnect with what energises them, clarify what they want, and take practical steps to make meaningful change. Together, we work on both the inner work (like managing fear, trauma, and limiting beliefs using BWRT®) and the outer work (like career planning, CV design, and job search strategy).

You don’t have to choose between staying stuck or blowing up your whole life. There’s another way — one that’s thoughtful, personal, and grounded in who you really are and what is best for you.

Coaching can help you:

  • Understand what’s driving your dissatisfaction (and what to do about it)
  • Shift fear, anxiety, or emotional blocks with BWRT®
  • Navigate burnout, trauma, or transitions without losing yourself
  • Reconnect with your strengths, energy, and sense of possibility
  • Build clarity and direction in your career choices
  • Take ownership of your career — in a way that feels like you
  • Write a CV and LinkedIn profile that reflect who you actually are
  • Improve your job search strategy and interview presence
  • Build healthier boundaries and better work-life balance

What people have said:

“Gillian has a warm and welcoming demeanour and approach about her that makes for a safe and comfortable environment to which one can explore the process she offers. The few sessions I had with her I found to be quite thorough, but very constructive and insightful.

I gained valuable knowledge of myself and my capabilities having gone through her process.

I would highly recommend that anybody on a similar path that may be looking for some direction or introspection with regards to their career contact Gillian without hesitation.”

For more information: Download brochure

BWRT

BrainWorking Recursive Therapy®


Shift the automatic. Choose something better.

BWRT® is a modern brain-based method that creates rapid, lasting change by working directly with your brain’s response patterns.

There’s a moment when you realise: knowing why you do something isn’t enough to stop doing it

That’s where BWRT® comes in. It helps you interrupt the reaction before it runs the show — whether that’s shutting down, saying yes when you mean no, or bracing for conflict that never comes.

BWRT® works like an update to your internal operating system. Instead of defaulting to anxiety, avoidance, people-pleasing, or self-doubt, you get to respond with more clarity, calm, and choice.

Where BWRT can assist:

  • Saying “yes” when you really want to say “no”
  • People-pleasing and perfectionism
  • Procrastination and low follow-through
  • Emotional reactivity or shutdown in high-stakes moments
  • Anxiety around public speaking or visibility
  • Resistance to change or fear of the unknown
  • Confidence dips after feedback or failure
  • The need to control everything or be constantly “on”
  • Feeling stuck in an old role, identity, or habit that no longer fits

Because it works at the level of your automatic responses, BWRT® doesn’t just help you manage your behaviour — it rewrites the script entirely.

What people have said:

“What magic is this”
“I can't believe how much can shift, so quickly, and simply”
“I wish I had known about this sooner”

Our clients
Testimonials

Have you experienced CareerCraft services?
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  • BME has used Gillian’s assessment services extensively and we found her ability to understand company culture and job profiles, results in consistently using the most appropriate assessments. Gillian is fast, efficient and takes care to give detailed feedback on applicants or employees enabling the setting up appropriate development plans. I would recommend her services with complete confidence.

    • ~ Eugene Smit ~
    • Executive Consultant
  • I was referred to Gillian at the beginning of 2014 when I was feeling completely lost and uncertain as to what direction to take with my career. I found Gillian's service to be professional, thorough and insightful. The fact that she had had similar career "crossroad" experience made me feel comfortable that she understood my situation and genuinely wanted to assist. I would recommend her services to all who seek to better understand and address their past, present and future career (and life) goals.

    • ~ Laura ~
    • Private client
  • I found Gillian's help to be invaluable. She is insightful, engaging and friendly. She makes the effort to accommodate her clients and goes the extra mile to provide the kind of assistance you are looking for. I definitely recommend her!

    • ~ Kuba ~
    • Private client
  • Gillian personifies professionalism. She possesses an innate ability to accurately assess ones personality and interests, supported by the application of appropriate assessment instruments. Gillian provides valuable career guidance and I would definitely again make use of her overall expertise as industrial psychologist, whether personal or in professional capacity.

    • ~ Elaine ~
    • Private client
  • Gillian performed psychometric assessments and gave career guidance to two family members. I was very pleased with the level of professionalism as well as the outcome of the results, which in both cases were spot on. Gillian is very accommodating, open to discussions and I was very impressed when she went the extra mile to speak to industry professionals in order to give practical feedback relating to her suggestions. I fully recommend her methodology – PS was great that Discovery paid for most of this!

    • ~ Justin ~
    • Private client
  • Gillian is very passionate about what she does, and it translates so clearly in her work, her professionalism and the energy she displays and puts into her efforts. I think Gillian was born to do what she does and I felt I gained a lot of value from her workshop. Gillian has managed to craft a career exploring experience that is guided, experiential, reflective, useful and practical for addressing those tough to answer career questions.

    • ~ Philip ~
    • Private client
  • I had been going through what I can call my “career mid-life crisis” when my colleague forwarded me an email that was also forwarded to her by a friend. I read the ad and it resonated with what I was going through. We both decided to attend the workshop because I was interested in how exactly does a career crossroads look like. The preparation alone got me thinking that these were the right questions to ask myself about what kind work would make me happy. This workshop and the prep has helped me shift my idea of a career – I can craft my career based on the skills I have and I love using. The fact that Gillian also struggled with these questions in her career, the experience makes all that more a shared and real.

    • ~ Lindiwe ~
    • Private client
  • I met Gillian through my work, she was our Coach and Assessor for all new recruits coming into the organisation. I asked her for a consultation because I was feeling quite lost, demotivated in my work and I felt somewhere along the line life had destroyed my core, my true nature and my calling had gone into hiding. I had worked for a couple organisations prior to joining the current company and the previous organisations had managed to kill my spirit. I felt like I was in a rutt, somewhat of a midlife crisis. It was difficult to sign up for the sessions as I felt so broken and was sceptical if anything could possibly change. I felt comfortable with Gillian which made the sessions easier. Happy to say I found myself again and started being my true self at work and in my personal life. Shortly after meeting with Gillian I got a promotion started a Vlog and started doing the things I love all again and stopped acting small but really woke up to shine at work and personally. One person said to me after a Vlog: ‘I didn’t know you as that person in the video and I love the you I saw’, I also love the me she saw, I have always loved her and I missed her! Thanks Gillian

    • ~ Bertha ~
    • Private client

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More about me

I’m an Industrial Psychologist and Career Coach, but really, what I do is help people get unstuck — in their careers, their choices, and the way they see themselves.

I work with people at every stage of their working life. That might be a high schooler figuring out what to study, an adult questioning whether they’re in the right job, or someone deep into their career wondering how to bring back meaning (or just get through the day). I also work with teams who feel caught in unhelpful patterns — stuck in survival mode, avoiding change, or burning out while pretending everything’s fine.

What all these situations have in common is this: at some point, the strategies that used to work... don’t. We find ourselves reacting in ways we don’t want to — shutting down, overthinking, pushing through — and feeling like something is off, even if we can’t name it.

The work I do helps shift those patterns. Gently, but powerfully. I use tools like BWRT®, the Enneagram, and grounded, honest conversation to help people (and teams) feel more like themselves — and move forward with clarity and confidence.

Why not book a discovery call to connect, before we get started?

xxx
Gill