I qualified with a Masters degree in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and a Postgraduate Diploma in Working with Groups, studied at the Tavistock Clinic in North London.
The Tavistock Clinic was set up by members of the British Psychoanalytical Society and established national health services and psychoanalytic training using pioneering clinical and theoretical developments. These include the work of Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, John Bowlby, Michael Balint, and current post-Kleinian analysts.
Qualifications and membership
- Masters degree in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy studied at the Tavistock Clinic, London
- Postgraduate Diploma in Working with Groups studied at the Tavistock Clinic
- Diploma in Integrative Counselling, a training accredited by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Member of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists
- Member of the New Zealand Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
- Registered Psychotherapist with the Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand
I have been a practitioner of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychodynamic counselling since 2002. In London, I provided psychodynamic psychotherapy for adult outpatients in the National Health Service, psychodynamic counselling in agencies for young people and counselling and group work to secondary school pupils. In New Zealand I have provided adult psychotherapy in an agency specialising in childhood abuse and trauma treatment.