AADILA PRETORIUS
Location: South Africa
Performer Type: Speaker / Keynote
Languages: English
Sector Focus: Personal Development, Mental Health & Wellness; Spiritual and Social Transformation; Peacebuilding & Interfaith Dialogue
Speaking Topics: Healing (mental health), Personal Development, Moral Regeneration, Spiritual Reformation & Peacebuilding
Rates: Contact for Details
Available to travel: Yes
Aadila Pretorius is a registered Traditional Doctor in Ethnopsychology, Hypnotherapist, and NLP & Neuro-Semantics Practitioner with over two decades of experience in personal transformation, trauma healing, and coaching. Through her integrative work in Hypnotherapy and Hypno-Coaching, she guides individuals toward emotional release, healing, restored self-worth, and authentic living.
A passionate advocate for social cohesion and interfaith harmony, Aadila has been a respected speaker and panellist on topics such as trauma recovery, mental health, GBV&F, and spiritual transcendence. A revert to Islam since 1992, she has hosted television programs on iTV (Ch. 347, DStv) and regularly features on YouTube (Kiran Zakir) and radio platforms including Pan African Radio and Salaamedia.
Expanding her mental-health practice into a peacebuilding movement, Aadila empowers individuals and communities to heal, awaken their inner potential, and reconnect with the Divine essence that unites humanity—grounded in truth, justice, moral regeneration, and spiritual reformation.
A. Main Themes: Mental Health, Women Empowerment, GBV&F, Communication and Relationships:
1. Mall for Women, 9/9/2025 – Women’s Day – Healing, Communication & Inclusive Leadership
2. Minara Chamber of Commerce, 2/8/2025 – The Power of Healing and Transformation
3. Yobuningi, 5/7/2025 – Mental Wellness for Women in Business
4. Yunus Emre Institute (Turkish Attache), 8/3/2024 – Leadership: Empowering Women through Inclusion
5. Minara Chamber of Commerce, 25./8/2021 – Navigating COVID
6. Channel Islam (Cii Radio) – 8/2021: COVID: The spiritual meaning, how to navigate during a time of turmoil
7. Cii, 2021 – PALESTINE, Children of War & their Mental Health
8. Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce (JCC), Nov 2020 – Speaker and Panellist: GBV& F
9. Salaamedia, 2020 – Emotional Abandonment; Reboot & Re-romanticize your relationship; Various relational and family topics; Effective Communication; Assertiveness; Children and Marriage;
10. Kiran Zakir Podcast – variety of mental health related topics, childhood traumas, complimentary health practices, and its effects; GBV&F; Healing from Emotional Abuse.
B. Main Themes: Interfaith, Polygamy & Business, Spiritual Reformation & Moral Regeneration:
1. SAWID (South African Women In Dialogue), 2019 –
• The Need for Healing
• Truth and Restoration
2. HWPL, SA (Interfaith, representing the Islamic faith) 2015 – 2019 –
• The Origin of Religion;
• Religion & Religious Laws;
• The Origin of Life and it’s Ending (Death);
• Prophecy & Fulfilment;
• The Spirit;
• Origins of Scripture; Founders of Religion; & Creation
3. SABC, Media Forum, Panellist, 2015 – The Role of Media in Peacebuilding
4. Polygamy in Business, Zubair Saith, Author’s Launch, 2017 – The Impact of Polygamy (Polygyny) on succession planning in family-owned businesses
Audiences leave my talks not only informed and inspired but deeply transformed. Through a blend of psychological insight, spiritual wisdom, tangible truth, a strong moral compass, and practical tools, I create a safe and inclusive space for reflection, healing, and growth.
Participants gain renewed awareness of their choices, purpose, and potential, along with practical strategies to strengthen mental health, communication, and relationships. My talks call to spiritual reformation, moral regeneration, and a conscious return to the Divine – beyond the boundaries of faith or culture.
By fostering dialogue, empathy, and collaboration, I help individuals and communities recognize our shared humanity, honour diversity within unity, and move forward with courage, love, and compassion.
Ultimately, I invite audiences toward collective healing, to seek truth, and stand out firmly for justice – essential foundations for a more peaceful and awakened world.
