Psychotherapy and Counselling
Welcome 🙂 I offer:
– a long term stable psychotherapy relationship to bring about sustained personal growth, and
– short-term counselling to successfully navigate ‘bumps’ in the road of life.
How I can help:
I work to build a safe relationship in which we can together compassionately explore what brought you to see me. The sort of experiences I can effectively help with in therapy include:
- grief and loss
- depression
- anxiety and overwhelm
- work challenges and career changes
- life transitions
- difficulty asserting yourself
- loneliness
- feeling inadequate or stuck
- trauma
- relationship difficulties (professional and personal)
Short-term counselling is for anything that can be effectively worked on in 1-10 sessions.
I work with adult (20yr+) individuals of all ages and from a variety of backgrounds and cultures.
My approach
My approach is warm, compassionate and collaborative. I use my extensive skills and experience in an intuitive way to best meet your needs. I aim for you to feel heard, understood, and accepted. Working together we will make sense of your inner world and your life circumstance, and develop the capacity/find healthy ways to achieve your therapeutic goals. Over time the therapy process organically increases self-awareness, self-acceptance, and genuine self-esteem.
Professional Supervision
I offer reflective practice/supervision for professionals wanting ongoing confidential support. Professional reflective practice can help to:
- improve/maintain wellbeing at work
- increase awareness of self, others, and group/organisation dynamics
- gain confidence solving problems/critical thinking
- improve workplace relationships
- enhance leadership skills
In addition to my therapeutic skills, I bring to professional supervision coaching, facilitation and leadership development skills and experience from my first career.
FAQs
Background and Experience
- I have been working as a psychotherapist and counsellor in private practice for over ten years providing short-term counselling and long term psychotherapy.
- I've had extensive training in a variety of therapeutic approaches, and use all of these skills when working with people. My primary paradigm is psychodynamic psychotherapy - a relational depth approach that enables lasting positive change.
- My first career was in Organisational Capability and Development, and many of the skills developed and knowledge I gained, are also useful in my work as a therapist. I changed careers because my curiosity, my own inner struggles and love of learning, propelled me to delve deeper into the human psyche.
Registrations and Memberships
- Member of Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists (MANZAP)
- Member of International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Qualifications
- Advanced Clinical Practice, New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists
- Wholebody Focusing Oriented Therapist, International Focusing Institute
- Satir Systemic Transformational Therapy L2, Satir Institute of the Pacific
- NLP (neuro linguistic programming) practitioner, Transformations
- Graduate Diploma - Management, University of Canterbury
- Bachelor of Science - Psychology, University of Canterbury
Appointments
- Appointments are 50 minutes, $165 a session ($184 for EAP and supervision).
- I work 8:15am - 4:30pm Monday-Thursday in the CBD
Please contact me to find what times are available.
Cancellation fee is charged for less than 24 hours (not including Sundays).
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2 Woodward Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, New Zealand
March, 2025
Friday
August 26,2019
- Tuesday
- 9:00am - 10:00am
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