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Welcome to Professor Kobus Maree’s official website, highlighting his pioneering work in educational psychology, career construction, narrative counselling, and Eriksonian hypnotherapy. Explore innovative approaches and valuable resources for personal and professional growth.

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Why choose us?

At my practice, I use decades of expertise in career counselling, narrative therapy, and Ericksonian hypnotherapy to foster holistic development, enhancing clients’ self- and career identities for confidence and resilience.

At my practice, I use decades of expertise in career counselling, narrative therapy, and Ericksonian hypnotherapy to foster holistic development, enhancing clients’ self- and career identities for confidence and resilience.

Our Mission

My mission is to inspire and empower individuals through career counselling, leveraging decades of experience to promote holistic development and enhance self- and career identities for fulfilling career choices and resilient lives.

Our Vision

I envision a world where everyone achieves personal and professional fulfillment, making meaningful social contributions. Through educational psychology, I promote holistic development and empower diverse individuals to reach their potential.

Expert guidance and counselling

With decades of experience in the field, I provide expert guidance and counselling, offering compassionate and professional support to help people navigate personal and career-choice challenges.

Personalised Guidance and Counselling

I tailor my services to your unique needs, goals, and circumstances. My personalised guidance and counselling ensure that each person receives tailored support to bolster their personal and career-life success.

Cutting-edge Assessment and Intervention Techniques

Continuous support

Access advanced career-assessment and Interventionto support your career-life journey. I utilise cutting-edge assessment and intervention techniques, providing precise, effective strategies to enhance your career-life decisions.

Professor Jacobus Gideon Maree offers continuous support, dedicated to your long-term success. Through consistent guidance and professional care, he ensures individuals receive the necessary resources and encouragement to overcome challenges and thrive in their personal and academic endeavors.

Innovative assessment instruments developed by Prof. Maree and colleagues in collaboration with JvR Psychometrics

For more information on these products – contact jvrafricagroup.co.za

Our services

I offer a broad range of services to facilitate integrative career construction counselling, based on research and practical activities, helping individuals and groups:

  • Recount and draw on their multiple career-life ‘stories’
  • Negotiate multiple career-life transitions across the life span
  • Deal with career-choice insecurity and anxiety
  • Choose schools, subjects, fields of study, careers, and work environments
  • Address career indecision and indecisiveness
  • Identify career-life themes, self-, and career identities
  • Clarify their career-life mission and vision

My approach integrates personal growth with practical career planning.

Additionally, I employ a variety of therapeutic interventions, such as BrainWorking Recursive Therapy (BWRT) and (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) EMDR, to assist people in overcoming a wide range of psychological and emotional challenges.

Upcoming workshops

Consider attending our career construction-related workshops, (dates and times to be announced):

  • Integrative career counselling using the Career Matrix and the Career Interest Profile
  • Life design counselling
  • Career constructive counselling using the three earliest recollections technique/intervention
  • The art and science of writing scholarly articles

These workshops provide valuable insights and practical techniques and intervention strategies for career and personal development

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Success stories

This assessment was the most enlightening experience I’ve ever had. I now know what I want to become and will update you on my progress after completing a job analysis.

The assessment exceeded my expectations. I learned the importance of integrating conscious knowledge and subconscious insight to choose the ‘right’ [most appropriate] career.
Prof. Maree taught me that age is no barrier to making career choices. Retirement is not an option; it’s about continuous growth.
Prof. Maree’s patience, friendliness, and empathy made me feel comfortable and relaxed. I’m now eager to start job analysis without fear.
I never understood the SETAs before. Now, with my interests, aptitudes, values, and growth areas clear, I’m determined to find a SETA to help me become a wind turbine technician. I’m excited!
I’ve learned to trust and believe in myself. I now have a clear career direction and even feel a sense of calling.
Prof. Maree showed me that poverty or a disadvantaged background isn’t a drawback. With the ‘right’ [appropriate] help, we can turn negative experiences into positive outcomes and help others do the same.
Being able to express myself fully, rather than just ticking boxes, was revealing and therapeutic.
After years of frustration in my career, I now have the courage to plan and find a meaningful ‘path’ [career trajectory] that rekindles my hopes and goals.
Your thorough assessment was life-changing. I was considering suicide before visiting you, but now I feel hopeful and inspired. I plan to start a chicken pen and take it from there.
Your thorough assessment was life-changing. I was considering suicide before visiting you, but now I feel hopeful and inspired. I plan to start a chicken pen and take it from there.
Linking my career choice with my mission and vision was eye-opening. I’m now open to fields of study I never considered before.

The assessment helped me realise that there are many fulfilling careers similar to the one I didn’t qualify for. With determination, I can find fulfilment in many careers.

Assessment instruments

Maree Career Matrix (MCM) on JvR
Career Interest Profile Version 7 (CIP v7) on JvR

Publications

Shaping the Story

Counselling for Career Construction

First steps in research

Innovating Counselling for Self- and Career Construction

Current career counselling relies heavily on psychometric tests, which can limit self-exploration. This book advocates for a shift to narrative therapy, presenting innovative techniques and international perspectives. It bridges work-role and life counselling, offering practical guidelines and theories to enhance career counselling effectiveness in the 21st century.

This book explores the history, best practices, and contemporary methods of career counselling, emphasizing the postmodern, narrative approach and meta-reflection to advance careers in the 21st century. Ultimately, it demonstrates how Mark Savickas’ counselling for career construction approach can be used by clients to connect life themes in order to construct life portraits under the guidance of counsellors.

This book provides comprehensive guidance for tertiary-level students embarking on research projects. This book offers theoretical and practical insights from academics and practitioners, covering research design, methodologies, ethical considerations, and data analysis. It is an accessible resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, aiming to demystify the complexities of conducting and reporting research.

This book integrates career counselling history with contemporary methods, emphasizing an innovative qualitative-quantitative approach. It guides career counsellors in helping clients uncover life themes, develop self-understanding, and adapt to evolving work environments. The book also introduces two instruments designed to enhance counselling effectiveness in individual and group settings.

Are You Prepared for Your Next Career Transition?

In these uncertain times, work is no longer guaranteed, and stable environments are rare. Seek guidance from Prof. Maree, an educational psychologist with decades of national and international experience. He will help you recount your career story and draw on your personal history to choose a field of study, become more employable, and find meaning and purpose in your career. Contribute to global efforts, including promoting eco-awareness, with a fulfilling career guided by Prof. Maree’s expertise.

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DVD A Guide to Reflective Career Counselling

A Guide to Reflective Career Counselling by Prof. Kobus Maree and JvR Team is a two-DVD set (3 hours) showcasing the use of the Career Interest Profile (CIP) in career counselling.

Featuring two case studies, it elaborates on Prof. Mark Savickas’ career construction theory and techniques, providing a comprehensive guide for career counsellors to help clients construct meaningful career paths and advance their life stories.