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About Caterpillar Life Coaching Centre

Caterpillar Life Coaching Centre is owned and directed by Kerry Wetton, who serves as the Owner, Director, and Lead Counsellor. Established in 2014, the practice was founded to provide compassionate, skilled counselling and practical training for children, adults, and families navigating emotional challenges, trauma, and life transitions.

The centre is built on years of hands-on experience in private practice, counselling centres, community programmes, and crisis-response environments. Every service offered reflects a commitment to ethical practice, individualised care, and creating a safe space where healing and growth can unfold naturally.

About Kerry Wetton

Kerry Wetton is an experienced counsellor, trauma practitioner, trainer, and community facilitator with over 30 years of professional experience supporting children, adolescents, adults, and families. She is the Owner, Director, and Lead Counsellor of Caterpillar Life Coaching Centre and also leads adult counselling services through KW Counselling.

Kerry holds advanced – post graduate – training in counselling, psychology-related disciplines, and trauma intervention, including certification as a Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) Facilitator through Applied Metapsychology International (USA). Her trauma work includes support for critical incidents, acute and past trauma, and ongoing emotional distress, with extensive experience providing trauma debriefing for groups (schools, businesses and organisations) and individual debriefing and counselling in collaboration with the Johannesburg emergency services, South African Police Services, various community organisations, and support agencies.

A significant focus of Kerry’s work is child-centred counselling. She is extensively trained in both non-directive and directive play therapy and sandtray techniques, allowing children to express emotions safely when words are difficult. Her approach supports emotional regulation, understanding, resilience, and healthy development, always at a pace that respects the child’s individual needs.

Kerry’s professional background includes years of work in counselling centre leadership, where she headed children’s, teens’, and general counselling departments, provided supervision to counsellors and social workers, and managed high client caseloads across a wide range of presenting issues. She has also worked extensively in crisis and trauma environments, offering immediate support following incidents such as murder, hijacking, rape, suicide, accidents, violence, loss, and other high-impact events.

In addition to counselling, Kerry has a strong passion for training and skills development. She has designed and facilitated vocational training courses for parents, caregivers, educators, counsellors, social workers, and community workers, with key focus areas including:

• Child-Centred Play Therapy
• Client-Focused Sandtray Therapy
• Directive Techniques
• Monster Busting (Helping Children with Strong emotions)
• How Children Deal with Grief & Loss (Puddle Jumping)
• CISD & Trauma awareness and support strategies

These courses are practical, experience-based, and aimed at equipping participants with usable tools rather than academic qualifications.

Kerry is also actively involved in community engagement and leadership, including long-standing participation in community safety, accountability and civilian oversight structures, as well as programme development and supervision within social development, community-based and faith-based organisations. This depth of involvement gives her a grounded understanding of the real-world pressures faced by individuals, families, and those working in helping professions.

At the heart of Kerry’s work is a belief that healing happens best in a space that feels safe, respectful, and supportive. Through Caterpillar Life Coaching Centre, she continues to walk alongside children and adults with empathy, professionalism, and care — supporting meaningful change at a pace that feels right for each person.