Meet the Team

  • Toni Snapes

    Role: Counsellor/Director

    Location: Hamilton/Huntly

    Registration: Dapannz and ACC ISSC

    Experience: Over 10 years

    Clients: Male/female, youth and correctional

    Treatment modalities: CBT, Mindfulness, Solution Focused Therapy, Behaviour Activation Trauma Focused Therapy, Exposure Therapy, Narrative Therapy, relationship counselling, and addiction treatment.

  • Sophie Chung

    Role: Counsellor

    Location: North Shore

    Registration: Dapannz, NZAC and ACC ISSC

    Experience: Over 10 years

    Clients: Female adults

    Treatment modalities: CBT, DBT, trauma therapy and meditation

  • Chantelle Hurst

    Role: Counsellor

    Location: Pukekohe

    Registration: NZAC Provisional Member

    Experience: 2 years practicing

    Clients: Female, youth and children

    Treatment modalities: PTC,CBT, DBT, Animal Assisted Therapy Creative Expressive Therapy and play therapy

  • Shirleen Prasad

    Role: Counsellor and Addictions Practitioner

    Location: Auckland (Glen Lynn)

    Registration: Dapannz and ACC ISSC

    Experience: Over 10 years

    Clients: Female adults

    Treatment modalities: CBT, Family Therapy, Person-centred Therapy, Mindfulness, Narrative Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

  • Liz Gilchirst

    Role: Counsellor

    Location: Christchurch

    Registration: Dapannz and ACC ISSC

    Experience: Over 6 years

    Clients: Female and male adults

    Treatment modalities: ACT, CBT, Mindfulness, Holistic Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Family Therapy, Strength-based approach

  • Sarah Reid

    Role: Clinical Psychologist

    Location: Hamilton

    Registration: APC New Zealand Psychology Association and ISSC ACC

    Experience: Over 10 years

    Clients: Children, adolescents and adults

    Treatment modalities: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness and Trauma Focused Therapy including Trauma Processing and Polyvagal Theory Informed Practice

  • Tommy Benefield

    Role: Counsellor, Therapist, Coach

    Location: Wellington, Kapiti, Hutt Valley

    Registration: DAPAANZ, ACC

    Experience: 20 years in counselling and psychotherapy as well as coaching and shamanic work

    Clients: I specialize in working with clients struggling with trauma, addictions, depression, anxiety

    Treatment modalities: Counselling, Psychotherapy, Transactional Analysis, CBT, Motivational Interviewing, Family Constellation work, 12-Step, Stutz: The Tools

  • Elizabeth Clausen

    Role: Clinical psychologist

    Location: Hamilton

    Registration: APC New Zealand Psychology Association and ISSC ACC

    Experience: Over 15 years

    Clients: Adolescents and adults

    Treatment modalities: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Solution-focused Therapy, Acceptance, Commitment Therapy, and Attachment-based Therapy

  • Wendi Halligan

    Location: Dunedin

    Registration: Clinical supervisor, Dapannz and ACC ISSC

    Experience: Over 20 years

    Clients: Male, Female, AOD and justice system

    Treatment modalities: CBT, Mindfulness, Behavioural activation, Couples counseling, Family therapy

  • Natasha Rojkind

    Location: Remuera

    Registration: NZAC

    Experience: Psychosomatic symptoms, Addiction, Trauma, and Relationships. 

    Clients: female ages 20-40 

    Treatment modalities: Body and Somatic Psychotherapy. Dance Therapy. Family Therapy

  • Steph Pease

    Role: Social Worker

    Location: Waikato and Hauraki Plains

    Registration: Registered with the SWRB (Master in Social work)

    Experience: As a community social worker for over 22 years 

    Clients: All ages and orientations

    Treatment modalities: Te Whare Tapa Wha model 

  • Kirandeep Kaur

    Role: Social Worker providing counselling 

    Location: Hamilton

    Registration: SWRB

    Experience: Mental health, ACC sensitive claims, PTSD, depression.

    Clients: From age 12 to any

    Treatment modalities: EMDR, IFS, CBT, NLP, mindfulness

  • Eugenia Jimenez

    Role: Clinical Psychologist

    Location: Wellington

    Registration: NZ Psychologist Board, NZCCP and EMDRNZ

    Experience: 20+ years of clinical experience working with trauma (PTSD and complex PTSD), addictions, depression, anxiety, sexual abuse, sexual harmful/inappropriate behaviour, couples therapy, family therapy, emotional regulation, OCD, stress management, dissociation, grief and borderline personality disorder. Supervising/consultant experience of 12 years. 

    Clients: Adults and adolescents 

    Treatment modalities: EMDR, DBT, CBT, neuropsychotherapy and Emotional Focus Therapy (individual, couples and families).

  • Sam Lindsay

    Role: Clinical Psychologist

    Location: Wellington

    Registration: NZCCP

    Experience: Five years working in Pain Management; Two and a half years in Private Practice

    Clients: Adults 18 onwards, Male, Female, Non-binary, open to all ethnicities

    Treatment modalities: CBT, ACT, EMDR (in training)

  • Marianne Harlaar

    Role: Counsellor, Supervisor, Coach, Social Worker and Therapist

    Location: Auckland (Parnell)

    Registration: MANZASW and ACC ISSC

    Experience: Over 25 years’ experience in counselling, social work, supervision and as a wellbeing coach

    Clients: Female and male adult clients

    Treatment modalities: Client-centred, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness, Strengths-based Approach, Solution-Focused, Holistic Therapy, Te Whare Tapa Wha, Trauma-focused Therapy (including Polyvagal Theory, Vagal Toning, Somatic Breathwork), Meditation, Narrative approach and Compassion-focused Therapy.

  • Rosemary Marsh

    Role: Clinical Psychologist

    Location: Riccarton

    Registration: I am registered with the New Zealand Psychologists Board under the clinical scope and hold a professional membership with the New Zealand Psychological Society (NZPsS).

    Experience: I work closely with patients in the treatment and diagnosis of a range of mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, substance use disorders, and various dissociative disorders.

    I have been conducting ADHD assessments since 2016 and have expertise in evaluating dissociative identity disorder. I hold a Ph.D. from the University of Groningen and the University of Canterbury, with a focus on dissociative identity disorder. My research has been published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, PLoS One, and Frontiers in Psychology. I have also delivered lectures in psychology at the University of Otago and the University of Canterbury, and have conducted workshops for the NZ College of Clinical Psychologists (NZCCP) on comprehensive assessment and treatment of dissociative identity disorder, and treatment of complex PTSD.

    Clients: Adults

    Treatment Modalities: Eye movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)

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