A lot of what goes on within our minds is complex and often remains outside of our awareness.

This can be confusing to make sense of on your own and it can feel like you are going around in circles, caught up in vicious cycles. Through psychotherapy, together we will explore and seek to understand your inner experiences. We will endeavour to illuminate and decipher the conscious and unconscious elements that influence behaviour, how you relate to self and others, and how it underlies your pain and suffering.

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Learning & unlearning
The psychotherapy process typically involves both the learning of new skills and ways of being and also unlearning and letting go of self-defeating beliefs and patterns.  It can foster understanding of the meaning behind repetitive defensive patterns of behaviour that were originally adaptive and protective, yet over time may have become unhelpful, restrictive and limiting.

Therapeutic relationship
Psychotherapy involves working with what emerges between us in the therapeutic relationship. It offers a relational experience that supports revealing and removing obstructions that may be blocking personal growth and healing, it can lead to a more expanded sense of self with increased options and choices to respond to life’s inevitable stressors and challenges.

Decode puzzling patterns
Psychotherapy provides a process to explore and make sense of repetitive and problematic patterns in your life that may have become distressing, self-defeating and painful. It can help you make connections of how the past may be influencing current ways of feeling and dealing with life. Facilitating increased understanding of the origin of these patterns, what keeps them going and helping you to free yourself from them so you can grow and flourish in the present.

Clinically proven
Psychotherapy is research based and clinically proven with demonstrated effectiveness to address a range of mental health issues and support psychological wellbeing.  Psychotherapists are trained professionals and provide a safe, ethical and confidential relationship.  

​Psychotherapy is a registered profession in New Zealand.
​The Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand (PBANZ) is the regulatory authority appointed under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003.  There are rigorous mechanisms in place to ensure that registered psychotherapists adhere to professional and ethical standards of conduct and are competent and fit to practice.

When someone really hears you, without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mould you, it feels good… when I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.  

​How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.