About Me

My many years working in health and my work in counselling has provided me with the opportunity to grow and learn about the needs of others. I have significant experience have worked in non-for-profit organisations and a partially funded organisation prior to working in private practice. I have significant experience working with clients who are living with anxiety, stress, and burnout.

I also have a particular interest and am experienced working with clients who have long term health problems or limited life expectancy. My most recent experience prior to private practice involved working with palliative care clients and their families.

Grief and loss can often feel confronting, and it often bring with it a myriad of emotions and emotional distress. Counselling can provide a confidential safe space to support you to work with your grief experience in a way. Grief is a unique experience and has the capacity to intersect with many other experiences. Trauma and life transitions or any life event that evokes a sense of loss may be described as grief.

I trained as a counsellor at the University of Canterbury, and I am a full member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors.