Future-Edge Therapy is a specialist trauma recovery practice, working with adults, children, and families affected by trauma, anxiety, grief, and long-standing nervous system overwhelm.
Our work is grounded in neuroscience and the brain–body system. We exist to support recovery at the level where trauma is encoded, not simply to help people cope with symptoms, but to guide processes that allow genuine resolution over time.
Everything we do is shaped by safety, structure, and responsibility.
Future-Edge Therapy was created in response to a pattern we saw repeatedly.
Many people seeking support had already engaged in therapy or other forms of help. They understood their experiences and had developed insight and coping strategies, yet their bodies and nervous systems continued to react as if the threat were still present.
We recognised a gap between understanding trauma and resolving it.
This practice exists to work directly with that gap. By addressing how trauma is held across the brain, nervous system, and body and by working with these systems together, in the right sequence, recovery can move beyond management and towards lasting change.
Future-Edge Therapy was co-founded and is jointly directed by Bonita Ackerman du Preez and Claire Ackerman du Preez.
Together, they bring decades of experience across trauma recovery, leadership, safeguarding, and systems development. The practice was shaped at the intersection of therapeutic work and operational responsibility – informed by frontline environments, education, the police service, and extensive experience supporting people affected by trauma.
This combined perspective underpins the structure, ethics, and standards that guide Future-Edge Therapy today.
Bonita leads the trauma recovery and practitioner-facing work within Future-Edge Therapy, drawing on extensive professional training and applied practice. Her focus is on supporting clients through structured, neuroscience-informed recovery processes that prioritise nervous system regulation, safety, and integration.
She is recognised for her calm, grounded approach and her ability to work with complex trauma patterns in a way that is contained, ethical, and sustainable, particularly where people have previously engaged in therapy but continue to feel stuck.
Bonita’s work is grounded in neuroscience and informed by extensive professional training alongside many years of applied practice. Rather than relying on isolated techniques, she works within a structured trauma-recovery framework designed to support resolution over time.
Bonita is one of the original developers of the Integrated Therapy System™, which brings together established trauma therapies within a coherent, safety-led process. This framework underpins all therapeutic work delivered at Future-Edge Therapy.
Alongside her professional background, Bonita brings lived experience that informs her values-led, responsible approach to trauma recovery work.
Bonita’s work is underpinned by extensive professional training and ongoing development. Her approach integrates established trauma therapies within a neuroscience-led framework.
*Full training details and professional registrations are available on request.
Claire oversees client care, operations, and professional governance within Future-Edge Therapy.
With over 30 years of leadership experience in public service, including senior roles within policing, Claire brings a strong emphasis on safeguarding, ethical practice, and operational responsibility. Her background includes work in high-pressure, trauma-exposed environments, alongside leadership, investigation, training, and staff welfare.
At Future-Edge Therapy, Claire ensures that every client journey, from first contact through to completion of work is handled with clarity, confidentiality, and care. She plays a central role in suitability assessment, safeguarding oversight, and maintaining professional boundaries across the practice.
Claire’s role ensures that trauma-recovery work is supported by strong governance, consistent systems, and clear ethical standards.
Claire’s work is informed by specialist training alongside extensive real-world experience.
Future-Edge Therapy is supported by licensed practitioners who work within our structured trauma recovery framework.
Each practitioner is trained, supervised, and supported to deliver work in line with our standards, values, and ethical approach. This ensures consistency, safety, and continuity of care for clients, while maintaining the integrity of the work across the practice.
Our client experience and operational systems are supported by a dedicated client care and operations team, ensuring communication, coordination, and scheduling are handled clearly, confidentially, and efficiently.
This allows practitioners to focus fully on therapeutic work, while maintaining consistent, professional systems behind the scenes.
Working with trauma carries responsibility.
Our practice operates within clear professional, ethical, and safeguarding standards. Supervision, reflective practice, and ongoing professional development are integral to how we work.
We recognise the limits of our role, collaborate appropriately where needed, and always place safety, boundaries, and wellbeing above outcomes or speed.
We are committed to providing trauma recovery work that is thoughtful, grounded, and sustainable.
Whether someone is beginning to understand the impact of trauma, or seeking deeper resolution after years of support, our role is to offer a steady, informed, and ethical path forward.
If you’d like to explore whether Future-Edge Therapy is right for you, complete our contact form and a member of our team will be in touch promptly.
A member of our team will review your enquiry carefully and respond if appropriate, usually within 1-2 working days.
Please note that submitting this form does not create a therapeutic relationship or guarantee suitability. If we believe another pathway would better support your needs, we will let you know.
