You are not stuck. You are carrying something that was never meant to be carried alone.
You are not stuck. You are carrying something that was never meant to be carried alone.
If you are living in the aftermath of something that changed you — a loss, an event, an experience you cannot stop replaying — and you are struggling to find your way back to yourself, you have found the right place. The Tiny Room specialises in trauma and grief therapy, and we are here to guide you through it with expertise, structure, and genuine care.
If you are living in the aftermath of something that changed you — a loss, an event, an experience you cannot stop replaying — and you are struggling to find your way back to yourself, you have found the right place. The Tiny Room specialises in trauma and grief therapy, and we are here to guide you through it with expertise, structure, and genuine care.
Something happened.
And nothing has been quite the same since.
Something happened. And nothing has been quite the same since.
Maybe it was death. The kind that hollows you out in ways you didn’t expect — grief that doesn’t follow a timeline, that hits you in the middle of an ordinary Tuesday, that makes you feel guilty for laughing and guilty for not laughing and guilty for still being here when they are not.
Maybe it was something else. An experience that left a mark. A relationship that broke something in you. A moment you didn’t see coming that changed the shape of everything after it. Trauma doesn’t announce itself — it just shows up in the body, in the dreams, in the way you flinch at things you used to find ordinary.
You have been trying to move on. You have been told — by well-meaning people who love you — that time heals everything, that you need to stay strong, that they would have wanted you to be happy. You have tried to believe that. You have tried to just get on with things.
But something won’t let you. Something keeps pulling you back. Something in you knows that what you are carrying has not been processed — it has just been managed. And managing it is exhausting.
You are not broken. You are not weak. You are not taking too long.
You are a person who went through something that left a mark — and you deserve a space where that mark can finally be acknowledged, understood, and worked through properly. Not rushed. Not bypassed. Worked through.
We don't ask you to move on.
We help you move through.
There is a significant difference between being told to move on and being genuinely guided through the experience of loss and trauma in a way that honours what happened and builds something real on the other side. We are here for the second one.
The Tiny Room offers one therapeutic process — The Tiny Room Integrated Therapeutic Framework, or TTRITF. It is an evidence-based, structured 8-week journey developed specifically to guide people through trauma and grief — not around it, not over it, but through it — and out the other side with something that lasts.
TTRITF draws from three of the most powerful therapeutic approaches available for trauma and grief:
CBT — Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
To identify and interrupt the thought patterns that trauma and grief create — the self-blame, the replaying, the catastrophising, the guilt. Because trauma and grief don’t just hurt — they distort. They tell you stories about what happened and what it means and what it says about you. CBT helps you examine those stories, separate fact from the mind’s attempt to make sense of pain, and build a more accurate and compassionate narrative around your experience.
Logotherapy
To help you find meaning again — not despite what happened, but through it. Viktor Frankl, who developed Logotherapy, survived the Holocaust and built an entire therapeutic philosophy on the human capacity to find meaning in the most devastating of circumstances. For someone navigating grief or trauma, this is not about toxic positivity. It is about the deeply human need to understand why — and to find a reason to keep building, even after everything has changed.
ACT — Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
To teach you how to move forward while carrying what cannot be undone. Some losses cannot be fixed. Some experiences cannot be unfelt. ACT does not ask you to pretend otherwise. It teaches you to hold what happened differently — to acknowledge it fully, to feel it without being consumed by it, and to commit to a life that honours both who you were before and who you are choosing to become.
Together these three approaches don’t just help you cope with what happened. They help you understand it, integrate it, and build something solid on the other side of it.
This is not about forgetting. It is about learning to live fully again — with the memory, with the loss, with the experience — and discovering that a full life is still possible.
Here is exactly what your 8 weeks looks like.
Grief and trauma can make the future feel impossible to plan for. So we are going to give you a clear, step-by-step picture of exactly what this journey looks like — from your very first contact with us to your final session.
Step 1 — You complete our intake form.
It takes about ten minutes. It asks you about what you have been experiencing, what brought you here, and what you need right now. You do not need to have your story perfectly organised. You do not need to know how to explain it yet. You just need to be as honest as you can. That honesty is what allows us to show up for you properly from session one.
Step 2 — We contact you within one business day.
A member of our team will reach out personally to answer any questions, confirm your details, and book your first session. You will not be left waiting in silence. We do not miss people who reach out to us.
Step 3 — You attend your first session.
This is where you meet your therapist, understand the TTRITF process, and begin. You do not need to arrive ready to talk about everything. You do not need to have the words for what you are carrying. Most people navigating trauma and grief don’t — and that is precisely what the process helps to uncover, safely, at a pace that is right for you. You just need to arrive. Everything else we do together.
Step 4 — You commit to your eight weeks.
Each session builds deliberately on the one before it. This is not a process you can dip in and out of — the structure is what makes it work. For someone navigating anxiety and depression, consistency is not just helpful. It is the difference between progress and staying exactly where you are. We ask for your commitment because your progress depends on it.
Step 5 — You leave with something that lasts.
By the end of your eighth session the weight of what you are carrying will not feel as absolute. The experience will not have the same power to pull you back. You will have tools, insight, and a relationship with your own grief and pain that is fundamentally different — more integrated, more compassionate, more sustainable. Not healed in the way a wound heals and disappears. Healed in the way a person who has been through something significant heals — carrying it with wisdom rather than weight.
The hardest part is not the eight weeks. The hardest part is deciding you deserve to feel better. Everything after that, we do together.
Grief and trauma do not wait for a convenient time. Neither should getting help for them.
We structured our rates deliberately below the standard market rate for registered professional therapy in South Africa because we believe that access to expert support should not be determined by the size of your bank account — especially at the hardest moments of your life.
The standard market rate for registered professional therapy in South Africa is R1,200 or more per session. We charge less because loss and trauma are already costly enough. Cost should not be one more thing standing between you and getting through this.
Medical Aid
We are linked to most major medical aids in South Africa. Before completing our intake form we strongly recommend that you contact your medical aid directly to confirm whether they will reimburse our procedure code 89205. One call could mean your therapy costs you significantly less than you think.
If you have a formal PMB — Prescribed Minimum Benefit — diagnosis, you may qualify for full or partial medical aid coverage. Simply email your proof of PMB diagnosis to us at [email protected] and we will complete the necessary application on your behalf.
Questions about pricing or medical aid? Reach out before completing the form. We will answer everything so that nothing stands between you and the support you need.
You have been holding this together for long enough. You are allowed to ask for help now.
There is a version of your life on the other side of this. Not a version where it didn’t happen — but a version where it no longer controls everything. That version is eight weeks away. And it starts here.
We know what is happening right now. You have read this far and something in you is asking whether this could actually work. Whether what you are carrying is too complicated, too specific, too long-standing to be moved in eight weeks.
We want to answer that directly.
We have guided people through the loss of children, partners, and parents. Through the aftermath of abuse, accidents, and violence. Through grief that has lasted years and trauma that reshaped everything. Every single time — the structure of the process, the expertise of the therapist, and the commitment of the person in the room made the difference.
You are not a special case in the sense that means hopeless. You are a special case in the sense that means you deserve a therapist who takes your specific experience seriously — and builds the 8 weeks around what you are actually carrying.
That is what we do. Every time.
You have been strong for long enough. You have been holding it together for the people around you, for the demands of your life, for the version of yourself that has to keep going. You are allowed, now, to walk into a room and let someone else hold some of this with you.
That room exists. It is small. It is safe. And it is waiting for you.
Not ready to book yet? That is okay. Take our free 2-minute mental health quiz first. Or email us at [email protected] — however you need to reach us, we are here.
