Dr Conradie’s teaching and research explore the philosophical, ontological, and existential foundations of educational psychology and psychotherapeutic training. Her work examines how engagement with the arts, including literature and theatre, can cultivate reflective capacity, hermeneutic sensitivity, and existential awareness in emerging psychologists. Challenging the exclusively technical and diagnostic orientation of professional training, she advocates for a broader, meaning-centred approach that attends to the complexity, depth, and mystery of human existence. Central to her scholarship is the formation of the therapist as person, fostering an existentially receptive stance and a mode of therapeutic presence grounded in philosophical inquiry, aesthetic engagement, and onto-phenomenological awareness. As one of the few scholars in Africa working at the intersection of educational psychology, philosophy, and the arts, Dr Conradie seeks to contribute a distinctive South African perspective to this emergin