Vikki Baird

On the healing journey, it’s always good to ask… Am I committed to healing my way to a new way of being, or am I simply hiding in my process? Therapy is not a place to hide from happiness. It’s a place to clear the obstacles to happiness. It’s a place to come alive.
– Jeff Brown

I take a creative, integrated, collaborative approach to working with individuals and groups.

Specialising in the areas of:

• self-esteem
• anxiety
• depression
• relationship issues
• existential concerns
• career and life path choices

Counselling/Therapy Services

I provide therapeutic support for navigating the emotional waves and challenges of daily life. I believe it is within these daily struggles and challenges of life that our most valuable opportunities for building deeper meaning, fulfilment and resilience can emerge. Taking a strengths-based, humanistic approach to psychological health, I am committed to facilitating a safe and deeply accepting space for you to discover you own unique gifts, resources and wholeness, which you can then integrate consciously into your life, creating more choice, emotional freedom, and flexibility, as you move forward on your chosen path.

I take a creative, integrative, and relational approach to working with individuals, couples, and groups. The foundation of my practice is rooted in psychodynamic psychotherapy and, more recently, my current training in psychodrama.

I believe in the healing power of relationships. We are social beings. Relationships are where we will experience our deepest wounding, but also our greatest healing. If we work together, I will work to meet you fully where you are, and to be committed to going on this therapeutic journey with you through all of the light and the dark places.

Counselling/Therapy Approach

I am trained in a range of therapeutic approaches including:

• Mindfulness
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Person-Centred Counselling
• Narrative Therapy
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
• Interactive Drawing Therapy (IDT)

Background and Experience

My previous experience has involved working with adults and youth in a wide range of settings, including Youthline face to face counselling team, and as the residential Counselling Psychologist in an adult mental health residential setting. I have previously worked as a group facilitator for ‘Mindfulness Works’ (a mindfulness skills teaching course for adults), and also as facilitator for ‘Mindsets’ (a mindfulness and resiliency program for youth). Currently I work part time at Anxiety New Zealand Trust in Auckland, specialising in treating adults and adolescents with various anxiety conditions such as social anxiety, generalised anxiety, and OCD. My private practice work involves individual counselling, community groups, and workshops in the corporate and educational sectors.

Supervision Services

I also offer supervision services to psychologists, counsellors, and other mental health professionals, based on psychodynamic and person-centred approaches which focus on providing space for you to reflect deeply on the interpersonal and intrapersonal dynamics at play within yourself and your clients.

This is influenced by my current training in Psychodrama Group Therapy work which helps me to understand the wider social forces at play, and the intricacies of working with individuals in an interpersonal way, within their social contexts and in groups.