Lorraine Dodd

Working with adults, adolescents and children, to bring about lasting change.

Areas of Special Interest

I work successfully with clients across a wide range of their presenting issues.

• trauma
• relationships
• mental health issues
• depression
• anxiety
• bi-polar
• grief
• domestic violence

Counselling Services

Our relationship with Change is regularly part of our lives: sometimes we want it but can’t get it, whilst at other times we don’t want change, yet it is thrust upon us.

I journey with clients to explore their existing strengths – strengths they already have which may be drawn on to support them through their chapter of Change. We can also find ourselves going deeper into the past to examine the elements which have contributed to the present.

Counselling Approach

I work with clients to support them in the mode that seems a comfortable and easy fit for them. I draw on a range of approaches including EMDR, Trauma-Informed Practise, Person-Centred Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). I also utilise Creative Expressive Approaches and Sand Tray Therapy, if these approaches seem to be a good-fit for clients.

Background and Experience

• Since 2006 I have worked in Private Practise: in Christchurch, Melbourne and Auckland.
• I have been a Counsellor-Educator at Manukau Institute of Technology (2020-2023), where have I supported Students in the Bachelor of Applied Counselling Degree.
• I have worked with adolescents within Secondary Schools as a School Counsellor.
• I have written and delivered weekend workshops for adults and children.