About Us

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.

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

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

Mark is available for in-person appointments in Taupō on Monday, Thursday, and Friday.

Mark is also available for telehealth across a few platforms for those not in Taupo.

Fees are $230.00 including GST for a 55-minute session.

Payment is required at the time of the session via EFTPOS or by Internet Banking transfer after each session. Some health insurers cover a portion of the fee associated with therapy from a Clinical Psychologist – check with your insurer.

Please be aware that fees apply to late cancellations, late re-scheduling or missed appointments.

This policy is in recognition of the time your therapist has held aside for your appointment, including preparation time. Additionally, it recognises that to offer the appointment to another client who is on a waitlist, sufficient time is required to enable them to re-arrange their schedules to attend a short-notice appointment.

Where an appointment is missed, or a late cancellation/change is made with less than 24 hours’ notice (within working days), the full consultation fee will be automatically invoiced.

Where a late cancellation/change is made between 24-48 hours (within working days) before the scheduled appointment, a 50% fee will be automatically invoiced. 

Cancellation fees may be waived in cases of sudden significant illness or emergency (such as hospital admission, with GP or doctor letter) at the clinic’s discretion.

Phone, Text or Email mark directly for appointment times.  Please leave a message on the answer phone and Mark will return your call as soon as possible.

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.

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

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

Trisha is available for in-person appointments in Taupō and offers telehealth options for people who live outside of Taupō when it is deemed clinically appropriate to do this.

Fees are $190.00 (GST inclusive) for a 60-minute session.

Payment is required at the time of the session via EFTPOS or by Internet Banking transfer after each session. Some health insurers cover a portion of the fee associated with therapy from a Clinical Psychologist – check with your insurer.

Please be aware that fees apply to late cancellations, late re-scheduling or missed appointments. 

This policy is in recognition of the time your therapist has held aside for your appointment, including preparation time. Additionally, it recognises that to offer the appointment to another client who is on a waitlist, sufficient time is required to enable them to re-arrange their schedules to attend a short-notice appointment.

Where an appointment is missed, or a late cancellation/change is made with less than 24 hours’ notice (within working days), the full consultation fee will be automatically invoiced. 

Where a late cancellation/change is made between 24-48 hours (within working days) before the scheduled appointment, a 50% fee will be automatically invoiced. 

Cancellation fees may be waived in cases of sudden significant illness or emergency (such as hospital admission, with GP or doctor letter) at the clinic’s discretion.

Phone, Text or Email Trisha directly for appointment times.  Please leave a message on the answer phone and Trisha will return your call as soon as possible.