Brad Kallenbach

Brad’s Life purpose is to acquire knowledge to help reduce unnecessary suffering. His gentle, empathetic nature coupled with a vast skillset and depth of clinical insight obtained over a decade of practice has allowed him to help hundreds of people heal, recover and thrive. 

Brad is a Clinical Psychologist who runs a busy private practice in Hyde Park, central Johannesburg. He holds Masters Degrees in English Literature (summa cum laude) and Clinical Psychology (summa cum laude) from the University of the Witwatersrand, and has been the recipient of numerous academic awards, including the prestigious ‘Best Psychology Student’ award in 2008. 

Brad has worked in psychiatric units across the Johannesburg region, including Tara Psychiatric Hospital and the Adult Acute Psychiatric Ward at Charlotte Maxeke, gaining extensive experience working with adults, adolescents, children, couples and groups from all cultural backgrounds, across a wide spectrum of diagnoses.​ 

With ten years of clinical experience, Brad adopts an integrationist approach, drawing on modalities such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. He has expertise treating generalised anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, panic disorder, depression, bipolar, addictions, schizophrenia, personality disorders and trauma. 

A published author, entrepreneur and visionary, Brad co-founded EQNMT with one of South Africa’s preeminent clinicians, Anthony Townsend. Along with South Africa’s brightest technologists, Brad is also a co-founder of Reach, a mental health-tech app which offers real-time, science-based tools for anxiety regulation and emotional mastery. 

As a lifelong meditator and martial artist who has competed at international level, Brad strives for balance in all aspects of life, from nutrition and exercise to loving relationships and a fulfilling career. He is often described as a living example of the Stoic maxim, mens sana in corpore sano: sound mind in a healthy body.