Lara Mulgrew

Lara Mulgrew is a child and adolescent psychotherapist who graduated and started practice in 1998 after initially studying and working as a registered Nurse.    She has worked with parents and children in a variety of settings since. These have included Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Starship Children’s hospital, Infant Mental Health and private practice.  She has supervised clinicians and students in those areas for many years. And works as the Clinical Educator at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), with the Child and Adolescent psychotherapists.

Lara has specific skills in working in the following areas:

• Sleeping and feeding concerns
• Relationship difficulties
• Grief
• Adjustment difficulties
• Anger and emotional regulation difficulties
• Generalised and separation anxiety
• Emotional impacts of chronic and acute illness
• Parenting challenges

Lara has experience and training in a wide variety of methods tools for understanding and working with issues and emotional challenges facing children, young people and their families.  This allows her to offer approaches that you and your child or young person will feel comfortable with.  She uses a range of evidence-based therapeutic approaches incorporating elements of the following:

• Parent infant psychotherapy
• Child and adolescent psychotherapy,
• Play therapy
• Sand tray therapy
• Parent child interactive therapy
• Circle of Security parenting
• Watch Wait and Wonder