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The counselling service offers free counselling for individuals with a focus on restoring parents/caregivers wellbeing to strengthen relationships within the whānau.
You can self-refer through this website, by email or by calling us. You can also be referred by healthcare or education providers, legal professionals, or community workers.
Our short-term service is offered in a warm, welcoming, and non-judgemental space, with a solution-focused approach. We hold at the core of our values that the client has the resources to find solutions to manage life’s often complex and sometimes unexpected challenges.
This service is for people who wish to enhance the well-being of tamariki in their care by being supported to live their lives in a more satisfying way - both personally and in their relationships with their tamariki and whānau.
To qualify for our counselling service, the person referred needs to be responsibile for the care of tamariki between 0–18 years. This could include shared care, regular contact, as well as full time care.
Counselling is delivered by qualified members of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors (NZAC).
On occasion, we have counselling students on placement who are in their final year of study. All our students are well supervised and working towards their membership to the New Zealand Association of Counsellors (NZAC). Working with students is voluntary.
Read the Counselling brochure for more info.
Yes, this counselling service is free.
The Counselling Service is a brief intervention service and the usual amount of sessions is between six and eight. There can be some flexibility in exceptional circumstances.
Counselling sessions can involve exploring sensitive issues that can bring up strong emotions that may not be appropriate to have a child present for. We ask that children not come to appointments and try to accommodate appointment times that support this.
Our Counselling Service offers individual counselling for adults. The only criteria for our service is that the person referred has the care of a child/children between 0-18 years (this can be fulltime, shared care, regular contact). Our Counsellor uses person centred and solution focused approaches in the sessions as well as offering specific approaches where appropriate
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