Amanda has worked in private, public and non-governmental health settings. She has a professional, nonjudgmental, and warm treatment approach. She is passionate about working collaboratively with clients to support them to make sustainable and meaningful changes in their lives. She has experience working with adolescents, parents, adults, those in the criminal justice system, and with care and protection agencies. Amanda uses a range of evidence-based treatment strategies to develop an assessment and/or treatment plan with each individual client that is tailored to their needs.
Expertise
- Anxiety
- Trauma
- Grief & Bereavement
- PTSD
- Low mood
- Parenting support
- Difficulties in emotion regulation
- Youth Justice
- Care and protection
Therapy approaches
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness based therapies
- Behaviour Activation
Qualifications
- Doctorate of Clinical Psychology (The University of Auckland).
- Bachelor of Arts (first class honours in Psychology; The University of Auckland)
- Bachelor of Arts (The University of Auckland)
Affiliations
- Registered psychologist with the New Zealand Psychologists Board
- Member of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists
