Experience

My practice is grounded in specialised academic and clinical training, ongoing professional development, and regular supervision.

I have many years of experience working with adults and couples across a wide range of issues in private practice. I have also worked within organisations providing specialised support for survivors of trauma and abuse, and compassionate end-of-life care. My professional background further extends to healthcare settings and human resource management within a large international corporation.

Having undergone personal in-depth psychoanalytical informed therapy alongside many years of therapeutic work with clients, I remain continually affirmed in the transformative power of inner work in building a meaningful life.

My Approach

I work in a warm, collaborative and straightforward manner, offering a safe, supportive and non-judgemental space to explore your thoughts, feelings and experiences.

My aim is to help you develop a wider range of emotional capacity and find relief from symptoms, conflicts and difficulties — including anxiety, panic, depression, grief, loss, trauma and PTSD. I also support people working through relationship difficulties such as infidelity, conflict and anger.

I take an integrative approach, tailored to your needs and preferences, drawing on depth psychotherapeutic modalities including psychodynamic, object relations, somatic, mindfulness-based cognitive, humanistic and existential therapy. Depending on what best suits you, this can take the form of brief, solution-focused work or longer-term, in-depth psychotherapy.

Qualifications

Master of Health Science (Psychodynamic Psychotherapy) (1st Class Honours)

Professional Associations

IARPP - The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

PBANZ psychotherapeutic Registration 550115 (Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand)
NZAP – Full Member of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists