Welcome, The Little Red Cottage
For Inner Healing & Wellbeing
-Restore balance, Embrace calm, Begin your journey within,
My Practice
A bit about my practice
My Practice in a Nutshell
I blend evidence-based counselling with professional coaching techniques to empower you to create meaningful, lasting change.
Using a tailored toolkit of therapeutic strategies, I support you in overcoming challenging thoughts and feelings that may be holding you back from living your best life. Grounded in trusted principles, with a focus on Cognitive Therapies and timeless methods, our work together provides a resilient and effective foundation for growth.
What sets my practice apart is the integration of coaching skills that help you set clear, actionable goals and develop practical strategies. While talk therapy is vital in exploring insights and awareness, coaching accelerates progress.
We set weekly tasks together to guiding you confidently on your path forward.
Together, we’ll work to transform challenges into opportunities, empowering you to live with purpose and confidence.
The Mind-Body & Holistic Approach
Science reveals the strong connection between the mind and body during healing that tells us how our mental state influences stress and growth, making healthy processing of feelings as crucial. Though so many of us are stoic, and taught to ignore or suppress thoughts and emotions to "move on."
In reality, suppressing feelings often intensifies unwanted thoughts, hindering healing. Our nervous system sometimes plays a vital role in moving forward with lasting change Working with this knowledge we learn to accept and face our thoughts and feelings in a balanced and safe way.
Stress, including trauma, can be more common than we think and not limited to major life events like we are taught. Everyday situations can sometimes project similar stress responses like anxiety with the same impact as traumas. Addressing this involves paying attention to not only our mental health, but also our environments. This can be home and work, and family occasions. It’s also now well recognised that caring for our physical health is equally important when healing. This is why my approach is holistic. It is not about claimed magic tricks but rather focused on understanding and nurturing the entire self to facilitate healing and positive change effectively.
A little more ....
Something a little different
Working from my peaceful, quiet home environment, I provide an stress-free space. I am available evenings and weekends and tailor sessions to create the support you need.
There are two spaces I work from. Both of which are built on providing a safe and meaningful space that is less clinical and more like a home away from home. I work from a larger space during the week and have a more tailored space during weekends and evenings. There is never an issue with parking and walking to where we do our sessions is as easy as a dozen steps once you arrive.
I space out my appointments with at least half an hour in between them so there is never a chance of your privacy being breached.
Strong Emotions that can be hard to manage.
Many of us in this industry have a specific passion.
My focus is on helping people heal from strong held emotions and thoughts. These emotions can sometimes just stay beneath the surface, but always there. A little bit of work can make a tremendous difference for both men and women who are dealing with strong emotions or thoughts that can make daily living tough on us. These are not just historical, and be something very recent.
My goal is to build a strong partnership so you have the tools achieve peace and growth.Be that:
- Anxiety
-Sadness
- Frustration
- Trust
Wellington has had it challenges, but it's still beautiful.
I am a born Wellingtonian who returned about a decade ago.
I love the windy city’s vibe, rich culture, and warm smiles despite the changes Over the years things have rocked us a bit. This is why I work within your budget and do my best to make my services affordable. Feel free to email me with your story and any questions you have so we can work together in a partnership for healing.
Real world, boots on the ground experience
I started working with people at risk in the early 2000's . I went on to work with families who were affected by violence and people impacted by mental health.
I then started running teams of counsellors and managing regional contracts.
Finally I wanted a practice of my own where I can work with people who want someone that has a hard working ethic and therapeutic by nature:
But importantly qualified and experienced.
Graduate and Post Graduate Certification
I studied Counselling before moving into the Trauma Informed Practice.
My training is from both recognised universities here in New Zealand and abroad. I have also trained with specialist programs in the UK, the States and Australia. My training of integrative skills and techniques were chosen to build my craft in different stages of growth throughout my career.
I continue professional development as many of us do. This is an effort to provide effective, comprehensive support that is evidence based and relevant.
I am always trying to find the most effective and trusted new ideas as well as always following older tried and true methods.
Ready For Change
Availability & You
Weekdays as well as evenings
I offer weekly appointments from 9:00am until my last appointment at 5:00pm.
By appointment I also offer evenings from Monday to Friday to accomodate those needs. This is also by appointment.
Tell me a little about you
It is always really helpful for us to tell me a little about yourself when you make contact. Use this time to ask me any questions you might have as well.
I am always trying to answer as much as I can to make the process as easy as I can.
My Email
Email me to chat
Feel absolutely free to email about appointment times that best suit you and I will always do my very best to see what I can do to make things easy. There is a contact below, however if you want to email me directly that's absolutely welcome.
My Email
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Email me directly if you want to hear from me sooner
You are welcome to use the 'contact me' drop box. Please note it can take a few days for the enquiry notifications to reach my inbox.
If you want to hear from me earlier you are super welcome to email me directly:
The Little Red Cottage
Hours
Open today | 09:00 am – 05:00 pm |
I work evenings during the week by appointment
