Whakatāne Counselling Services
Compassionate, evidence-based support from a registered Whakatāne counsellor.
Services
Personalised, Evidence-Based Support for Your Healing
I offer a range of therapeutic services designed to support you in understanding your experiences, shifting unhelpful patterns, and creating meaningful change.
My services include Insight Focused Neurotherapy Therapy (IFNT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Person-Centered Therapy, and Narrative Therapy. Each method brings a unique lens to healing, whether it’s exploring the deeper roots of emotional responses, reframing thought patterns, centering your lived experience, or reshaping the stories that influence your life.
Together, we’ll choose the approach that best fits your needs, at your pace, to help you move forward with clarity, confidence, and self-compassion.
My Approach
Healing Begins With Feeling Seen & Heard
Healing begins when you’re given the space to be understood with honesty and compassion. Together, we move toward insight, clarity, and emotional wellbeing
Together, we unpack the thoughts, emotions, and experiences that shape your daily life, helping you build understanding, confidence, and long-term resilience. My role is to guide, support, and walk beside you while you reconnect with your sense of self.
Using modalities like Insight Focused Neurotherapy Therapy (IFNT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, and Narrative Therapy, I tailor each session to your needs and pace. This flexible, integrative style allows us to address root causes, shift unhelpful cycles, and gently move toward growth. You don’t have to navigate things alone, this is a place where your voice matters, your feelings are valid, and your healing is possible.
Insight Focused Neurotherapy (IFNT)
Insight Focused Neurotherapy supports you in understanding how your brain, body, and past experiences shape the way you think, feel, and respond.
Awareness & Understanding
A process that helps you identify the roots of emotional reactions and long-held beliefs. Together, we explore your inner world with curiosity, making sense of the patterns that influence your wellbeing.
Emotional Regulation
IFNT offers practical tools to calm the nervous system, manage stress responses, and build resilience. It’s supportive for anxiety, overwhelm, and moments when emotions feel hard to navigate.
Integrating New Patterns
This approach helps you develop healthier ways of thinking and responding. Through insight and guided reflection, you learn to replace old patterns with new, empowering pathways that support long-term growth.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps you understand how your thoughts, emotions, and behaviours influence one another. This structured approach supports you in building healthier patterns.
Thought Awareness
CBT helps you identify unhelpful thinking habits that may be influencing your mood, stress, or daily life. With gentle guidance, you learn to recognise patterns that no longer serve you.
Skill-Building Tools
This approach provides practical strategies for managing anxiety, low mood, and everyday challenges. You gain tools you can use both in and outside of sessions to support lasting change.
Creating Helpful Beliefs
Together, we work on shaping new, balanced ways of thinking. Over time, these supportive beliefs empower you to respond to life with more confidence, calm, and emotional wellbeing.
Person-Centred Therapy
Person-Centred Therapy offers a deeply supportive space where you can explore your emotions at your own pace. You lead the process, while I walk alongside you with empathy, understanding, and genuine care.
Safe Emotional Space
You’re encouraged to express your thoughts and feelings freely, without judgement. This environment helps you feel seen, heard, and understood.
Deep Self-Exploration
Through compassionate guidance, you gain clearer insight into your emotions and experiences. This process often leads to meaningful personal growth and strengthened self-trust.
Empowerment & Inner Strength
As you discover more about yourself, you learn to approach life with increased confidence. This approach supports long-term wellbeing and emotional resilience.
Narrative Therapy
Narrative Therapy helps you re-examine the stories you hold about yourself, your life, and your experiences. By separating yourself from your challenges, this approach allows you to see new possibilities for change and personal freedom.
Exploring Your Story
We look at the narratives shaping how you see yourself and the world. This gentle process helps highlight which stories feel supportive, and which no longer align with who you are.
Re-Authoring Meaning
You’re supported to rewrite limiting or negative narratives, creating new interpretations that reflect your strengths, values, and resilience.
Strength-Focused Change
This approach empowers you to step into versions of yourself that feel grounded and capable. It opens space for hope, choice, and meaningful transformation.
Take the 1st Step Towards a New You
A Safe, Private Space
Your privacy is honoured at every stage. As a registered Whakatāne counsellor, I offer a confidential environment where you can share openly and feel genuinely supported without judgement or pressure.
Working Together With Care
Counselling is a shared journey. We move at a pace that feels comfortable for you, exploring your experiences with warmth and curiosity. You lead the way, I’m here to guide, encourage, and walk alongside you.
Support for Real Emotional Growth
This is a space to understand your inner world more deeply. Whether you’re processing stress, navigating change, or seeking personal clarity, you’ll receive steady, compassionate support as you move toward healing and wellbeing.