Supervisors in Auckland

Alex has over 15 years of clinical and professional supervision experience with the following:

Business people (HR, OD, CEOs, CTOs, owners, employees), community developers, counsellors, cybersecurity personnel, dentists, educators and teachers, general practitioners and other medical personnel, mental health professionals, osteopaths, psychologists, psychotherapists, probation officers, social workers, level 5 Olympic sports coaches and clinical and professional supervisors.

Approaches to supervision she particularly enjoys include: contemplative psychotherapy, coaching, counselling supervision, focusing, LEGO serious play, mediation, mindfulness, mentoring, passionate supervision, positive psychology and reflective practice. 

Alexandra is an experienced clinical and professional supervisor. She works alongside her clients to help facilitate their growth and change, and provides a safe and non-judgemental environment in which you can explore whatever you choose to. Alexandra has experience working with a large variety of issues, and works with whatever clients bring into the room. 

Anita's vast training experience spans over 30 years. She offers clinical supervision, especially for those starting out in the counselling field. Supervision is a three-pronged approach - case studies, education and personal therapy - especially when triggered by transference issues.

If you are looking for coaching rather than counselling, Anita has trained to offer this style of service. She also offers seminars in stress management, sexual harassment, creating a positive future and strategies for success.

As a career, leadership, and wellbeing coach, Anna supports her clients to address work-related challenges that may impact their wellbeing or performance. Anna is an experienced, empathetic and trustworthy coach with a genuine concern for people thriving and living fulfilled lives. She brings real curiosity to her clients’ challenges supporting them to uncover answers and solutions to create the life and work that they want.

Career development support might include improving communication, defining personal brand, or navigating a career transition. Wellbeing support might include managing stress and overwhelm, implementing healthy lifestyle habits, or addressing work-life balance. Leadership support might include developing an impactful leadership style, capitalising on strengths, or becoming more confident in decision-making.

Supervision with Anna is an opportunity to reflect on client and people relationships and discover new ways to navigate these. Working with Anna creates new perspectives and an enhanced ability to understand, analyse and interpret various aspects of organisational dynamics and culture. Anna supports both personal and professional development, identifying blind spots for greater self-awareness, developing cultural competence, addressing ethical issues, and paying attention to wellbeing.

Averill's training is in narrative therapy. This is a respectful, non-blaming approach to counselling that places the client as the source of knowledge on their life. Central to narrative therapy is the belief that clients have the skill, commitment and ability to assist them to change their relationship with problems they might be faced with. Averill places high value on respect, compassion and social justice. These values underlie all her work, including her supervision practice.

Bev has over 18 years' experience working in a private practice and with people both one-on-one and in groups. She also has experience in Mental Health working as a CBT therapist and psychologist.

Bev enjoys the role of supervision as her values consist of wanting to equip and encourage others in their journey. Bev has supervised intern psychologists and found this rewarding as they have journeyed to full registration. She has also supervised counsellors for the past 8 years and has a great deal of experience in a variety of areas.

Brett works with adults and adolescents, males and females and all ethnic groups. He is trained in different modalities to meet the needs of the client, matching their style and comfort with the right technique for optimal results. He is able to offer a listening ear with understanding and emotional balance.

Tena koe, Bridget supports supervisees who are wanting a cultural supervisor to help them become full members of NZAC.

Cabrini is an experienced supervisor who is able to work across any ethnic group, gender or issue using CBT, Gestalt and psychodynamic methodologies. Cabrini is fluent in both Tongan and Fijian languages.

Professional supervision is a process where we look at your work, celebrate the good things happening and discuss the parts that are not going so well. It helps to have another ‘eye’ on your work to uncover things that may not be obvious at first and to make sure that you are working safely and taking care of yourself.

Celia offers professional supervision to counsellors, mental health workers, nurses and other professionals working in mental health as well as pastors, church leaders and community volunteers.

Dean has been practicing psychotherapy and counselling for the past 16 years. He believes in using the strengths of clients in order to address those parts of their lives that they find challenging, difficult or unmanageable. Dean has supervised psychologists counsellors and psychotherapists for the past decade, both individually and in group supervision contexts.

Frances negotiates an individualised personal plan with each supervisee to ensure their specific needs are addressed for the enhancement of their professional practice. Frances offers professional supervision and mentoring for individuals, social service professionals and those involved in ministry.

Registered ACC sensitive claims counsellor.

Greg has been counselling since 2005 and has worked with a wide range of people, cultures and issues. His style of counselling focuses on developing a supportive and respectful relationship with his clients so that they feel comfortable to explore and process their concerns. Greg worked for more than 10 years as a tertiary counsellor, including most recently as team leader.

Helen has 30 years of counselling experience and has worked closely with the Family Court for much of this time, providing relationship counselling and counselling towards successful separation. Helen works closely with a women's refuge with women who have been subject to violence. One of Helen's work locations is in a doctor's practice, and from there she takes referrals related to anxiety and depression.

Jacqui has worked in corporate and business for 25 years and she understands many of its challenges. She is passionate about supporting professionals in high-stress and high people-contact roles by offering professional supervision/mentoring. This includes emotional support within a safe, confidential space, professional assistance, feedback and guidance, and regular consultations to help minimise workplace stress and to improve performance/effectiveness and job satisfaction. This can be especially beneficial for new professionals or those who are looking to advance their careers.

Jan brings 16 years' experience supervising qualified counsellors and student counsellors. She works in a collaborative way, brainstorming together to find the most helpful approach and the best strategies to help specific clients and likes to resource supervisees as well as she can.

Jan has been a counsellor with Employee Assistance Programmes since 1995, helping people from a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds with regard to both their work and personal life. She supervises counsellors and mental health workers.

Registered ACC counsellor.

Janet is a career and workplace coach, mentor, supervisor, and trainer with experience across a wide range of sectors working with people at every level. She is focused on empowering individuals and teams so they can make good decisions to support growth and development.

She has a good understanding of developments within the workplace and offers insights and tools to enable people to successfully navigate the world of work. She is particularly interested in encouraging and supporting reflective practices that encourage more strategic and purposeful working and living.

Janet offers a safe space to reflect, learn and grow professional competence through regular structured supervision conversations. She uses a reflective learning model in supervision, along with several other relevant modalities. She encourages and supports reflective practices that encourage more strategic and purposeful working and living.

Janet is a career and workplace coach, mentor, supervisor, and trainer with experience across a wide range of sectors working with people at every level.

Supervision for Janine is about making you the best practitioner you can be. It is about enabling you to stand in your truth and your power, creating strong ethical boundaries while connecting with clients from a place of honesty and partnership. It is about allowing expressions of vulnerability and uncertainty and seeing them as opportunities for growth.

Jenny has over 20 years' experience working with men, women, adolescents, couples and families regarding grief, loss, change, relationships, stress, anxiety, depression, family/parenting issues and supervision.

Jessica has considerable experience in providing clinical management, HR management, clinical and professional supervision support, training and development to registered health professionals to ensure work-life balance as well as that their clinical standards were to the appropriate level of required practice, and that it adhered to the organisational policies and procedures.

As a coach, Marie draws her knowledge from her tertiary business education and her experience holding roles as a finance manager, business analyst, and mentor in the banking and finance industry in New Zealand and overseas.

Marie’s passion for people, mental health well-being, and positive transformation of life galvanized her to pursue a career in counselling and coaching.

Marie also values the thought that “we can become who we want to be” with the help around us, and with professional support.

A registered psychologist with over 10 years’ experience, providing both peer and professional supervision with fellow psychologists/mental health professionals and managerial staff from not-for profit organisations. 

Julie can provide supervision to other mental health professionals as well as persons/groups who require or would benefit from supervision in their current role. Using a strengths-based approach, Julie retains confidentiality and has a genuine and caring approach to her work with her clients/peers.

Kathryn has a down-to-earth and collaborative approach to working with people of all ages and from all walks of life. This is reflected in her work which has taken place across a range of settings including the education, social services, health and justice sectors. Kathryn has knowledge and practical expertise in several approaches to trauma and abuse, cultivating individual and organisational resilience whilst providing professional supervision support to both individuals and groups.

Lizette has considerable experience in providing individual counselling with children, adolescents and adults as well as providing professional and clinical supervision.

Lorraine brings supervisees her breadth and depth of experience. She has worked in a variety of settings and with a wide range of presenting issues. Lorraine is familiar with supporting supervisees through complex client issues and also through complex workplace issues. Lorraine also brings her familiarity with different careers since, for 20 years, Lorraine was a teacher who had management roles.

Losalia has worked in health and social services for over 20 years. She is an experienced and culturally-responsive therapist who can work well with all groups of people. Losalia insists on conducting her practice within her values of professional and personal integrity.

Losalia can work with all issues, including mental health presentations, and provides short-term interventions to help facilitate movement for her clients.

Louise has over 30 years' experience in both NZ and the UK in a variety of settings including adult mental health, alcohol and drug counselling, working with youth, workplace issues, life transitions and stress management.

Of the many professionals who have been initially referred for more short-term therapy, many have continued to see Marguerite for regular professional or business development. As a result of working with Marguerite in supervision, they have enjoyed a marked improvement in their ability to not only grow their career but also expand their thinking and reflections both personally and professionally.

Since 1997 Marta has been supervising counsellors who work with all ages and cultures, with the support of theoretical frameworks. Marta's supervisees enjoy her balance of support, challenge to grow and creative methods. She can offer supervision both in person and online. Marta has published a book on professional ethics and she deeply enjoys sharing her experience and ideas with other professionals.

Martin has 20 years' experience as a counsellor, psychotherapist and supervisor working with people who have a wide range of concerns affecting them at home and work.

Passionate about being a careful listener and supportive guide with the particular challenges you are facing, Martin provides supervision and consultation to frontline healthcare and human service workers and others. He has extensive training in group work and also trains others in group psychotherapy.

Mohini uses a strengths-based approach, supporting the individual or family with empathy, respect and integrity, providing value and empowerment in creating and developing self-efficacy. Mohini believes every problem has a solution!

Mohini is friendly and approachable, and working with people is one of her passions.

Muneet is a registered DAPAANZ supervisor. She is experienced in inspiring teams in various environments using a facilitative and inclusive leadership style to motivate, coach, mentor and develop teams and individuals into a cohesive functioning unit.

Niccy is  an experienced  counsellor, supervisor, coach and counsellor educator. Her main approach is strengths-based, creative solution-focused. She is a warm, encouraging, relatable supervisor who thrives on developing partnership to help people to reach their hopes, wishes, preferences or goals.

Nigel has provided supervision support since 2001 and he understands the project of 'supervision' as the co-creation of a reflective space to explore one’s own clinical practice, professional identity, and to move further towards the best practice one can offer those consulting us. It is also a place for personal support for practitioners who give so much to others. 

Supervision can be a place of care and nurture for you the practitioner who, having given out and attended to others, can receive care and attention.

Further details about his  work can be found at www.narrativepathways.com by clicking the supervision button.  

Nola has worked in social services and counselling for many years and is a full member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors and trained professional supervisor. Nola has managed a team of counselling staff, along with counselling students and researchers and have counselled a very wide range of people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.

Patrick has worked many years in the mental health sector. He is active in providing workshops for the mainstream mental health providers. Patrick also provides training workshops for tertiary training institutes such as Universities and Government Agencies.

He speaks Mandarin and Cantonese.

With over 20 years experience as a health counsellor, coach, and supervisor, Philippa provides professional supervision, coaching and consultation to all levels of staff in the workplace. This includes managers and other staff dealing with difficult work situations; staff performance and change-related issues; time management; personal challenges getting in the way of work; career issues; and personal development. She is skilled in group dynamics and systems theory and works collaboratively with clients exploring possibilities for change where necessary.

Philippa has worked in a variety of settings, including health, public service, retail, manufacturing, and NGOs, and in a range of different roles - service manager, advisor, workplace assessor, HR/training consultant and group facilitator.

Supervision/mentoring is a workplace service focusing on support for people related to their job demands, their personal effectiveness and performance. Prue has specialised in this area over many years and brings to the work her judgement and understanding of the pressures and conditions under which people perform their roles in the workplace.

With over 30 years' experience working in the mental health field in the areas of addiction, forensics, gambling, either in community or acute services, detoxification, and/or residential services, Raewyn provides both training and supervision for counsellors and therapists and other health professionals.

She has  commenced the process to train in transactional analysis teaching and supervision; and she also co-facilitates first-year counselling diploma and degree process groups for a local education provider.

Ray is a professional supervisor and a chaplain within the Christian ministries. Ray has experience in critical incidents and addictions, most recently within a local whanau group. Ray is passionate about the wellbeing of those that serve others in times of trauma, stress, grief and loss.

A qualified professional counsellor with over 25 years' experience, Ray has worked in many different areas of the profession and provides supervision to other counsellors.

In the 21 years that Richard has been counselling people in career development, he has honed his counselling skills to work with a diverse range of people from business executives to school leavers that are confronting issues such as redundancy, harassment in workplace, returning to work after parental duties, injury or disability, long-term unemployment, drug and alcohol addiction and indecision and uncertainty about life after school.

Currently in private practice utilising an eclectic blend of talking therapies and adult educational for supervision and assessments, plus individual and group treatment for a range of problematic behaviours and EAP support including critical incident debriefing.

Robin’s experience includes 20 years providing individual and group supervision in a variety of contexts - particularly counselling and mental health services. Robin has a post-graduate diploma in health science (clinical supervision), and her masters in health science thesis was on supervision.

Robyn has been involved with the careers industry for the past 30 years as both a consultant and as an educator of career practitioners to a master's level. Robyn works from a client-centred perspective and is interested in helping clients make meaning of their career and work experiences.

Sam has supervised for a number of years within her organization, supervising her team and student’s counsellors.

Sam also supervises people from other areas such as healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, paramedics, hospice, leadership & pastors).

Shona is a clinical psychologist with counselling and therapeutic skills. She is in a senior role supervising counsellors and students and other allied professionals.

Stephen has social work experience in mental health and experience in family therapy. Using transactional analysis and psychosynthesis, Jungian depth psychology, cognitive behavioural therapy and emotional freedom techniques to assist the client to achieve and maintain work-life balance.

Sue brings over 20 years of professional experience working with individuals, couples and families in the Rodney district, working collaboratively to identify strengths and passions, change unwanted behaviours and experience life from a more consciously aware place.

Susan has had a wide scope of practice throughout her professional career, including direct client work, project work, group facilitation and coaching in the area of efficiency and effectiveness. This broad skill level is very useful in group supervision, where she can draw on many concepts and ideas to bring into the group for reflection and consideration. She has many years' experience supervising a range of health practitioners.

Registered ACC counsellor.

Theresa has over 20 years' experience working in community, mental health and addiction services. She has held a private practice for 12 years and worked at health and counselling centres at two Auckland universities.

Theresa also provides personal development, assertiveness training, transition and is both a qualified anger management facilitator and a certified teacher of Koru Mindfulness.

Tony worked for corrections for 20 years, including probation, courts, treatment units and cultural advisory groups. Tony has spent 10 years working with problem gamblers and other addictions and also works in restorative justice. Tony's approach is non-judgemental and empowers people to make healthy, values-based life choices.

An accredited clinical supervisor and addictions practitioner, Topou provides professional, clinical and cultural (Pacific) supervision working with individuals, groups, social and family networks. His approach is warm and person-centred and he brings his experience and learning in health from health promotion and education to his work.

Vanesa has been counselling, supervising and training for over 15 years. She is committed to supporting each person she works with to gain new insight, confidence, skill or direction.

Vanesa's background includes extensive experience in leadership for team leaders, the alcohol and drug field, supervision for the Nursing Council and working alongside supervisees wanting a DAPPANZ-accredited clinical supervisor.