Christchurch based counsellor and psychotherapist.

​I am an experienced and professionally trained counsellor and psychotherapist based in Christchurch.

I gained my Diploma in Counselling with the College of Natural Medicine in 1990, and became a certificated Psychodramatist with the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association (AANZPA) in 2018.

I have also completed training in various other forms of therapy including NLP, Gestalt, Narrative Therapy, and Solution Focused Counselling. In addition, I completed Couples Therapy Training, Developmental Model: Level One, with Ellyn Bader and Pete Pearson of the Couples Institute, USA, in 2022, couple therapy workshops with Nic Beets and Paula Dennan in 2021, and attended couple therapy supervision groups with Walter Logeman, in 2018 and 2019.

I have been employed for over thirty years in the helping industry with a strong focus on work with children including work in residential settings (Glenelg Health Camp, Richmond Fellowship), and employment as a Family Counsellor for eight years (Campbell Centre, Presbyterian Support, Christchurch).

I have also been a Clinical Worker (Stopping Violence Services), and Clinician providing sexual abuse counselling with children, adolescents, and adults, for six years (START Inc).

I now work in private practice with individuals and couples (18 yrs+) from Otakaro Healing Arts, 232 Fitzgerald Avenue, Linwood, Christchurch, and also run groups for men. I find working with people deeply rewarding.

I am a partner, parent, and step-parent, and enjoy expressing myself creatively through my work, painting, music, landscape gardening, and football among other things. I love to travel and be replenished by the beauty of the natural world.

I am a member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors (NZAC), the Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand (PBANZ), the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association (AANZPA), and am ACC Registered.

If you would like to meet with me, please get in touch and we can arrange a time.