About Us

The therapy approaches that inform my work include:

• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
• Attachment Based Therapy
• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy – CBT
• Emotion Focused Therapy for couples – EFT
• Mindfulness Based Therapy – MBT

• Psychological assessment and psychotherapy for adults (17 years +)
• ACC Sensitive Claims assessment and therapy
• Professional Clinical Supervision for a range of allied health professionals

Please see Get to Know Mark for more detailed information about range of issues worked with, and types of therapy approaches offered.

We do not provide the following services:

• ADHD/Neurodevelopmental Assessments 
• Formal Psychological Reports for Corrections, Family Court or Criminal Court.
• Couples Therapy
• Child and Family Therapy
• Mediation Work

My approach to therapy is guided by psychodynamic and attachment ideas alongside cognitive, emotion focused, and mindfulness-based therapies. I aim to provide a reflective space to explore issues that are troublesome, to understand the situational and life patterns that contribute to current or long-standing issues, and to draw on current skill sets while helping to develop new ways of managing or coping.

Since the year 2000 when I qualified as a clinical psychologist I have worked with a range of individuals (adult), from various cultural backgrounds, in a variety of settings (Helplines, ADHB, Private Practice). I have experience with a wide range of issues including: people hearing, seeing, feeling, or believing things that others are not able to experience (sometimes called psychosis), psychological trauma and abuse, dissociation, depression and anxiety (and anxiety conditions), grief, a range of life transitions, and relationship issues.

I am ACC Sensitive Claims registered. I offer supervision to professionals, have also done several presentations at conferences, and I co-taught the attachment and development segment of an AUT training programme: Post Graduate Certificate in Health Studies, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

I am senior clinical psychologist and qualified in the following ways:

• Bachelor of Arts – Psychology and Political Studies: 1988 – 1991
• Master of Arts – Psychology: 1995 – 1997
• Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology: 1997 – 2000
• Post Graduate Certificate in Advanced Psychotherapy (Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy): 2002-2003

I have registrations and memberships with:

• NZ Psychology Board
• NZ Psychological Society
• NZ ISPS – International Society for psychosocial understandings of psychosis
• NZ-ICEEFT – NZ branch of the institute governing emotion focused therapy for couples

I have completed a range of complementary trainings throughout the years including but not limited to:

• Trauma, Dissociation, Complex PTSD
• EFT for Complex Trauma
• Janina Fisher on trauma and memory
• Mentalisation
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy DBT training
• Psychosis, voice hearing, At Risk Mental State Training, and extreme states – numerous conferences and courses
• Emotion Focused Therapy – Externship and Core Skills 1
• CBT for OCD and other conditions (anxiety, psychosis, depression)
• Many aspects of psychoanalytic psychotherapy including transference, Klein, the process of healing, Freud, Ghosts in the nursery.
• Supervision

My office days in Taupō for in-person sessions are

• Monday 9:00am-6:15pm
• Tuesday 11-5:00pm
• Thursday 9:30am-5:30pm
• Friday 8:30am-2:30pm

On Wednesday I do online appointments, and I am not available on weekends.

If you wish to enquire about my appointment availability, or have other questions, please use the contact form here. You are welcome to call, however, due to the nature of my work I am often with clients and unavailable to answer. If you leave a message, I will get back to you when I am able.

My therapy work is informed by the following clinical models:

• Attachment Therapy
• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
• Dialectic Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
• Mindfulness-based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
• Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples and Individuals (EFT)
• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

• Psychological assessment and psychotherapy for adults (17 years +)
• ACC Sensitive Claims assessment and therapy
• Professional Clinical Supervision for a range of allied health professionals

Please see Get to Know Trisha for more detailed information about range of issues worked with, and types of therapy approaches offered.

We do not provide the following services:

• ADHD/Neurodevelopmental Assessments 
• Formal Psychological Reports for Corrections, Family Court or Criminal Court.
• Couples Therapy
• Child and Family Therapy
• Mediation Work

I am a Senior Clinical Psychologist with 20 years’ specialist experience in the field of mental health and trauma recovery.

I have worked across a range of specialist services including the Auckland and Waitemata District Health Board’s (ADHB & WDHB) Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Tū Māia, ADHB’s Regional Youth Forensic Service, WDHB’s Maternal Mental Health Service, and the Specialist Child Assessment and Investigation Services (SSU) of Oranga Tamariki – Ministry for Children, based at the Puawaitahi Child Protection Multi Agency Service in Auckland.

I also held the role of Psychology Practice Supervisor within the ADHB which was a management role overseeing the quality of practice of clinical psychologists within the ADHB.

In addition to the roles I have held within Auckland’s public mental health and child protection agencies, I have spent the past 15 years working across the spectrum of mental health and relationship issues within my private practice. I have worked with children, adolescents, adults, and families who have brought their very personal struggles with anxiety, depression, relationship issues, family violence, trauma, chronic pain, self-harm and/or suicidality, and maternal mental health.  I also have significant experience in providing clinical supervision for a range of health professionals.

Complementary to my clinical work, I have also done some teaching, lecturing and training for Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in the Psychotherapy and Psychology Departments, and for the University of Auckland in the Psychology Department and Medical School’s Practitioner Development Unit. I was a lecturer for the AUT’s Masters of Psychotherapy Programme – Developmental Theory and Child Observation; and the AUT/NZIPP’s Post Graduate Diploma in Health Studies -Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

I have the following professional qualifications and affiliations:

• Master of Arts (endorsed in Clinical Psychology with first class honours) from the University of Auckland.
• Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology from the University of Auckland.
• I have held continuous registration in the clinical scope of practice with the New Zealand Psychologists Board since 2002.
• I am an active member of the New Zealand Psychological Society (NZPsS) and the Institute of Clinical Psychology (ICP).
• I am registered with New Zealand’s Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) to provide Sensitive Claims work.
• I am a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP).
• I am a member of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT)
• I am a member of the New Zealand Community for Emotionally Focused Therapy (NZCEFT

In addition to the qualifications already mentioned, I have completed formal training in the following therapy approaches:

• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy – Intensive Training (Part 1 and 2) and Advanced training through the Behavioral Tech, a Linehan Institute Training company based in the United States.
• Mindfulness-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy – Through the New Zealand Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (NZIPP).
• Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples – via NZCEFT/ICEFT trainers.
• Emotion Focused Therapy for individuals and trauma – via NZCEFT/ICEFT trainers.
• Attachment Therapy
• Trauma-informed CBT
• Sandtray therapy
• Advanced Clinical Supervision

Clinical supervision is a process of reflection on our clinical work with a supportive and trusted allied health professional. Quality supervision is an important and required component of our work as health professionals. It is one of the tools in our tool box helping us to enhance our clinical effectiveness, support our professional development and sustaining our own mental wellbeing. 

I have provided clinical supervision to a range of health professionals including Psychiatrists, Clinical Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Clinical Social Workers, Counsellors, School Guidance Counsellors, and Clinical Team Managers. I have also provided supervision to a wide range of professional experience levels from trainees and new graduates through to senior practitioners. 

My approach to supervision is informed by my own preferred therapy models (see Therapy Approach) and the clinical supervision models that I have been trained in. I will seek to foster a safe and supportive space to maximise reflection on your clinical work, related dynamic issues, and professional development goals. I am strengths-based, but also process-oriented, so where needed, will help you explore relational dynamics or transference and counter-transference with respect to therapy work you may be doing, or any team issues that may be at play in your work context. 

I normally suggest an initial appointment to discuss your supervisory needs, including a more in depth discussion about my supervisory approach and how this may best be tailored to what you are seeking.  This can also include supporting you to learn about how supervision works if you are in a health profession that has not had access to clinical supervision of this kind. 

If you decide my style and approach fits you and would like to proceed, we  begin with negotiating a formal supervision agreement which will outline various aspects of the supervision process such as your goals, preferences for supervisory approach, role-expectations, confidentiality and conflict resolution processes.  

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch to ask any questions you may have or to set up a time to discuss this in more depth.

My office days for in-person sessions in Taupō are Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 8am-6pm. My online Telehealth sessions are on Tuesdays and Fridays. I am unavailable on weekends.

If you wish to enquire about my appointment availability, or have other questions, please use the contact form here. You are welcome to call, however, due to the nature of my work I am often with clients and unavailable to answer. If you leave a message, I will get back to you as soon as I am next available.