Counsellors

Areas of specialty

• Anxiety & depression
• Family/ sexual harm
• Prevention of suicide
• Stress related issues

“Kia ora tatou, ko Ngati Raukawa te iwi, ko Jackie Hill  tōku ingoa”

Jackie is the founder of Taupo Family Centre Inc. and has been working as a therapist/counsellor for the past 20 years.

She completed her training in 1999 at Hawkes Bay Eastern Institute of Technology and then continued training in child protection and cognitive behavioral therapy. Jackie offers an integrated wholistic approach utilising many modalities and culturally inclusive therapies. She specializes in the above issues with a strong passion for wellbeing and change. Jackie also provides critical incidents debriefs to organisations and companies within the Taupo District and is a full member of NZAC (New Zealand Association of Counsellors).

Areas of specialty:

• Anxiety and depression
• A&D assessment
• Domestic violence
• Grief and loss
• Relationship
• Workplace stress

Kia ora tatou

Ko Rangitoto te maunga

Ko Hauraki te awa

Nō Tāmaki Makaurau ahau

Ko Bergin tōku whānau

Ko Joshua tōku ingoa

Joshua has been a counsellor for the past two years after completing his bachelor’s degree at Bethlehem Tertiary Institute. In that time, Joshua also completed a post graduate certificate in mental health and addictions at WINTEC. Before and during his study, he was a youth mentor and support worker since 2016. 

Joshua offers a holistic, culturally inclusive, and trauma responsive approach to working with complex issues including mental health, addictions (including gambling), stress related issues, family harm, and relationships issues. Joshua’s main modality is cognitive behavioural therapy, with a strengths-based approach ensuring clients feel heard and understood. Joshua is currently a fully registered practitioner with DAPAANZ.

Areas of specialty

• Relationships
• Sexual abuse (victims and offenders)
• Stress management
• Supervisor

Lyn initially emerged as a counsellor over 30 years ago from a strong health background having owned and operated a nursing bureau. Although initially having trained generically, as a counsellor, she went on to specialise in addictions and mental health and was manager and clinical director of an addiction service for many years.  Approximately 10 years ago Lyn brought her clinical skills back into the generic counselling world which gives her a rather strong skillset to call on in her current role as both counsellor and clinical leader for a Family and Sexual Harm Centre.   Lyn enjoys the brief intervention work as a Vitae counsellor and the immense variety of clients and issues working for this company brings.  She works eclectically and sees her strengths as working in my specialties with strong capability in mental health issues, stress related issues and behaviours, and trauma related issues and behaviours.

Lyn places much emphasis on the relationship between body and mind and works wholistically with persons of all cultures and ethnicities.