As a registered psychologist and previous teacher, I have worked with young people for over 20 years and I feel very fortunate to be in this role. I was a secondary school teacher and then retrained as a Child and Family Psychologist in 2011. I believe that I am easy to relate to and engage with. Currently, I work in private practice. My previous roles were as a school psychologist at a local Dunedin school; the Youth Brief Intervention Co-ordinator for Waitaha Primary Health and prior to that, at an NGO providing parenting support, group work facilitation and clinical assessment and intervention.
Expertise
- Anxiety
- Family Harm
- Trauma
- Phobias
- Grief & Bereavement
- PTSD
Therapy approaches
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Solution Focused
- Mindfulness based therapies
Qualifications
- Post graduate Diploma in Child and Family Psychology
- Master of Science with First Class Honours: Psychology
- Graduate Diploma in Science with Distinction
- Graduate Diploma of Teaching and Learning (secondary)
Affiliations
- New Zealand Psychological Society
- New Zealand Psychologists Board
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