Services
Professional Counselling for Individuals & Couples
Online or In Person
20+ years Clinical Experience
INDIVIDUALS
Individual Counselling
Counselling can facilitate insights and self-reflections, especially in areas where you are struggling or feeling blocked. Counselling can help to provide options or alternatives and always places your wellbeing as paramount.
Many approaches inform my practice to individual counselling and include - client-centered, narrative therapy, parts work, and trauma informed somatic experiencing, along with intuition and some common sense 😊
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a form of therapy that focuses on the connection between the mind and body to help with the effects of trauma and stress. SE recognizes that our bodies hold on to and remember experiences, especially those that have been difficult or overwhelming.
Relationship or Couple Counselling
Feeling hurt, stuck or lost in your intimate relationship? Relationship counselling can be an incredible resource for couples - both for personal development and healing, and for the essential growth and development of the relationship!
Hurts and betrayals in relationships can be explored together, and counselling can facilitate insights and self-reflections, and help to provide options or alternatives to what's happening. Challenges and blocks can cause issues and upset, especially relating to how we feel about ourselves and about our life. They can stop us feeling able to love ourselves and others, to feel love from others, to feel resentment, anger, jealousy, and intrusive thoughts to name a few, without knowing why!
We are all made up of different parts that have developed by us, often for self protection from feeling further hurt, and to be able to manage familial and social conditioning we are all exposed to and influenced by. Parts develop in childhood and not at a conscious level, so we are often unaware of them. Having many parts, some that are in opposition with each other, is totally necessary to make us who we are and to manage life. There will be parts of us that we don't like, that seem against us, and this is normal, not your fault, doesn't mean there is something wrong with you, and you are not to blame. However, without getting to know your parts and understanding why they are there, can mean challenges and blocks in your lives and in your intimate relationships.
Published Article -
Connor, H., Gremillion, H. and Meima, Y. (2016), Couples Work in Cultural Context: Te Ao Māori and Poststucturalist Practices Informing Counselor Training in Aotearoa New Zealand. Family Process, 55: 238– 252. doi: 10.1111/famp.12210
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