Isabella Van Hoye
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 3: Certified
EFT Supervisor in Training
Registered Psychotherapist NZAP
EFT Supervisor in Training
Registered Psychotherapist NZAP
Address
Psychotherapy and Couples Therapy
Gloucester Court,
1 Franklin Road,
Ponsonby 1011
Gloucester Court,
1 Franklin Road,
Ponsonby 1011
Phone
027 455 3166
Email
Website
From Isabella:
In our busy and often stressful lives I find the model of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) an effective and powerful model, grounded in research that enables couples to slow down, to safely explore their issues and discover healthier and long-lasting ways for emotional reconnection.
I am often touched by the confidence given to me by couples to work alongside them as they seek to better their relationships, understand their negative cycle that catches them out and consequently discover and move towards a deeper, more loving connection and bond with each other.
Julian Metcalfe
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 3: Certified
Clinical Psychologist
NZ Psychological Society
Clinical Psychologist
NZ Psychological Society
Address
21 Essex Road
Mt. Eden
Auckland 1024
Mt. Eden
Auckland 1024
Phone
021 591 009
Email
Website
From Julian:
I am a registered clinical psychologist who has been providing therapy for over thirty years. My clients include couples, but also individuals (adults and adolescents) and whole families.
My long-standing experiences of people who come for therapy is that they are courageous and remarkably resilient. This is certainly true of the couples I have seen.
Even when there have been significant betrayals, couples can successfully work through their difficulties to obtain a sense of safety, openness and mutual respect.
To work with couples on this journey is a privilege and immensely rewarding.
Anne Kemps
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 3: Certified
MNZCCA
B. Couns
MNZCCA
B. Couns
Address
Private Practice & Life Unlimited
Epsom, Auckland
Epsom, Auckland
Phone
0274 823 321 / (09) 361 4163
Email
From Anne:
EFT makes total sense! It is a way of working that enables couples to venture into places in their relationship that have been out of bounds for some time. And that new depth of working brings a level of understanding that results in a freshness and intimacy that has been missing.
Susan Harding
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 3: Certified
M.A., PGDipClinPsych
MNZCCP
Clinical Psychologist
M.A., PGDipClinPsych
MNZCCP
Clinical Psychologist
Address
THE PSYCHOLOGY COMPANY
Ponsonby Psychology, 179a Ponsonby Rd
Byron Chambers, 2 Byron Ave, Takapuna
Ponsonby Psychology, 179a Ponsonby Rd
Byron Chambers, 2 Byron Ave, Takapuna
Phone
09 3607119 | 0274 502 372
Website
From Susan:
I have been working with the EFT for couples approach for the past 5 years, and completed the advanced Core Skills training in 2011. I am honoured to experience the transformation of relationships that is possible through using this model to help couples connect in a more heartfelt way.
I am experienced in working with a wide variety of mental health issues as a Clinical Psychologist for the past 22 years, both in the UK and New Zealand so I can bring this depth of understanding to couples work, along with other training that I have . For further information please visit my website at www.thepsychologycompany.co.nz.
Bridget Macdonald
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 3: Certified
Address
PeopleSupport Services Limited
5 Speight Road,
Kohimarama,
Auckland 1071
5 Speight Road,
Kohimarama,
Auckland 1071
Availability
I work 7am- 8pm, some Saturday’s and hold relationship intensives. These run over several days for up to ten hours; often from Friday evening til Sunday for people who come from outside Auckland. These can also be held in your regions. Sessions by Skype/Zoom or referrals to local therapist follow as needed.
Phone
021 451 193
Email
Website
From Bridget:
Couples Therapy, Counselling and Mediation.
Feeling deeply connected to a partner brings joy and security, giving confidence in other key relationships and life endeavours.
When we face mountains together they don’t seem so high! EFT offers a well-proven map to getting us all back on track from disconnection, distance, despair, entrenched patterns or injury. It will give you ways to hear, confide in and experience your partner with new depth and beauty.
I am passionate about the transforming change and healing that EFT brings to relationships. Understanding and working with emotions to shape safe, fulfilling, balanced lives is central to every aspect of my practice and daily life. I apply EFT principles and learnings to working with couples and individuals, leaders, managers and groups in businesses and hospitals.
It is a honour to join with people to discover how their relational lives can be optimised.
I work early morning, daytime and 4 evenings a week to provide flexible session options.
Richard Fox
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 2: Additional
MNZAC and MNZAP
FRNZCGP
MNZAC and MNZAP
FRNZCGP
Address
Counselling & Psychotherapy
4 Paget Street, Ponsonby
Auckland 1071
4 Paget Street, Ponsonby
Auckland 1071
Phone
(09) 376 2007 / 021 181 2643
Email
Website
From Richard:
One of my leading interests is working with couples using Emotionally Focused Therapy. I have trawled through many approaches to couples work before I found this approach. I find EFT a safe and powerful way of working with couples. For more about other EFT therapists in Auckland have a look at www.couplestherapyauckland.co.nz and for more about myself www.richardfox.co.nz.
Jo Batts
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 2: Additional
Provisional member NZAC, ICEFT
B.Couns, Adv Sex Therapy
Provisional member NZAC, ICEFT
B.Couns, Adv Sex Therapy
Address
The Parenting Place
300 Great South Road
Greenlane
Auckland 1051
300 Great South Road
Greenlane
Auckland 1051
Phone
021 525 343
Email
Website
From Jo:
Jo is passionate about relationships. Recognising that life is a lot more enjoyable and fulfilling when our relationships are thriving, Jo has dedicated her training and her practice to support couples as they find their way back to one another through difficult or challenging seasons.
Having trained extensively in advanced sex therapy and emotionally focused therapy, Jo works collaboratively with couples to explore the places where their relationship has become stuck in criticism, blame, anger and resentment.
The goal of working together is to establish new and healthy relationship patterns that in turn provide a deep sense of connection, safety and security. Most couples experience their new relationship pattern as life changing which sets them free to focus on the rest of life’s joys and challenges.
Jo’s approach to therapy is grounded in the science of relationships along with practical real life experience and a pragmatic caring style of listening without judgement.
Rob Mason
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 2: Additional
Dip Tchg., TTC., B.D., PG.Dip Ed (Couns).,
Cert. Supervision,
MNZCCA.
Dip Tchg., TTC., B.D., PG.Dip Ed (Couns).,
Cert. Supervision,
MNZCCA.
Address
Rob Mason Counselling & Consultancy Services,
10 Raelene Place,
Massey,
Auckland 0614
10 Raelene Place,
Massey,
Auckland 0614
Phone
09 833 9829
Email
Website
From Rob:
Rob is an experienced couples therapist, who is amongst the first group of therapists to train in New Zealand in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy.
He works with varying ages and stages of relationships with a wide range of relationship issues. He has a breadth of vocational experience, including pastoral ministry, social work, teaching, management and working in labouring gangs.
Ali Andrew
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 2: Additional
MNZCCA
Dip Couns.
MNZCCA
Dip Couns.
Address
Phoenix House,
306 Great North Rd,
Henderson,
Auckland.
306 Great North Rd,
Henderson,
Auckland.
Phone
021 232 2701
Email
Website
From Ali:
I have worked as a counsellor for 20 years and have trained in a variety of counselling models. I love the way that EFT takes a non-blaming approach to counselling.
It helps couples to step back and recognise their stuck patterns, and the pain this causes. EFT instead invites couples into a whole new way of doing relationship, where there is a deep sense of closeness and connection. I personally have experienced the benefit of having had EFT counselling in my own relationship.
You can find more about me from the profile on our website.
Helen Bennet
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 2: Additional
Address
Titirangi,
Auckland
Auckland
Phone
021 126 0420
Email
From Helen:
Having worked with couples for roughly 20 years, I was delighted to find this particular way of working with couples experiencing difficulties in their relationship.
It's been so much more helpful than any other model I've worked with. The extensive and robust research, which has also been born out in my experience, shows that it is really helpful for the majority of couples. It helps couples re-discover their close, warm connection again, improving their intimacy (both physical and emotional), improving their communication and reducing arguments or 'freeze outs'.
My sense is that it works so well because we are not looking for fault or blame. Instead, we're directly working with the couples' patterns of communication that keep them stuck in doing the same things over and over and that sadly, leave them feeling disconnected and unhappy.
I completed the training in EFT for Couples in 2011 and have been using this model almost solely in my couples work ever since.
I'm a member of NZAC and am also Family Court approved. Currently I'm working from Titirangi and on occasion, from New Lynn.
Angela Shaw
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 1: Externship
Registered Psychotherapist (MNZAP)
Registered Psychotherapist (MNZAP)
Address
Three Lamps Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre
2 Jervois Road
Ponsonby, Auckland
&
New Lynn Osteopathic Clinic
40 Titirangi Rd
New Lynn, Auckland
2 Jervois Road
Ponsonby, Auckland
&
New Lynn Osteopathic Clinic
40 Titirangi Rd
New Lynn, Auckland
Phone
021 255 7154
Email
Website
From Angela:
I have training in a variety of couples therapy models and find Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples to be very effective in restoring and/or enhancing a loving connection.
I can help you to think about what makes relationships work well and to learn to manage your conflicts and arguments more effectively. Together we’ll look at where you are both getting stuck in your relationship.
My areas of special interest include anxiety and depression, grief and loss, maternal mental health, fertility issues and secondary infertility. I find that these issues can often be very effectively addressed in the context of the couple relationship.
Additionally, I have a particular interest in how people who have characteristics of Asperger Syndrome experience relationships and in the experiences of their intimate partners.
Garey Clark
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 1: Externship
Counsellor
B.Theol, B.Counselling, ProvMNZAC
Counsellor
B.Theol, B.Counselling, ProvMNZAC
Address
Moving Forward Counselling Services,
Youthline House Manukau
145 St George Street,
Papatoetoe,
Auckland
Youthline House Manukau
145 St George Street,
Papatoetoe,
Auckland
Phone
021 421 698
Email
Website
From Garey:
I am registered with the New Zealand Association of Counsellors and have been working with people in a pastoral capacity for over 20 years and as a counsellor in the last 7 years.
Couples therapy is a particular passion of mine. Working with people who love each other but find circumstances have created road blocks not bridges to communication. Helping couples find a way to reconnect in an intimate and caring way is what I’m about.
For more information about me see www.talkingworks.co.nz.
Lorraine Sievers
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 2: Additional
BMin, DCouns+Fam,Th, CSup, MNZAC
Address
Lorraine Sievers of Building Families,
1/118A Victoria Street,
Onehunga, Auckland 1061
1/118A Victoria Street,
Onehunga, Auckland 1061
Phone
027 492 1962
Email
From Lorraine:
It has been a privilege to train as an EFT couple therapist after practicing over the past 18 years as a counsellor, family therapist, attachment-parenting educator, and as a supervisor.
I have always had a passion for helping couples and families find the experience of love they long for, and to find healing from past emotional hurt.
I consider EFT to be the ultimate approach for couples and families who are experiencing distress and disconnect in their relationships.
I love the way the EFT model is designed to identify the conversations that keep us stuck, help to make sense of the deeper places within ourselves and our loved ones, and equip us to reestablish safe emotional connection “for a lifetime of love” (Dr. Sue Johnson’s words).
Rodger Pool
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 2: Additional
Registered Counselling Psychologist
PG Dip (Counselling Psychology), MHSc (Hons), BHSc (Hons), LLB (Hons), BA, Dip Bus
NZ Psychological Society, International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEFT)
Registered Counselling Psychologist
PG Dip (Counselling Psychology), MHSc (Hons), BHSc (Hons), LLB (Hons), BA, Dip Bus
NZ Psychological Society, International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEFT)
Address
11 St Mary’s Rd, Ponsonby
498 Hibiscus Coast Highway, Orewa
498 Hibiscus Coast Highway, Orewa
Phone
021 736 575
Email
Website
From Rodger:
I’m passionate about working with couples who want to build a more loving and lasting relationship and are willing to put in the effort needed get free of the old patterns that have undermined their happiness and intimacy, no matter how challenging the situation may be right now.
Bronwyn Alleyne
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 1: Externship
Registered Psychotherapist (NZAP)
Registered Psychotherapist (NZAP)
Address
The Psychotherapy Centre,
Level 1, 300 Great South Road,
Greenlane, Auckland
Level 1, 300 Great South Road,
Greenlane, Auckland
Phone
021 127 7738
Email
Website
From Bronwyn:
I work with individuals and couples to move towards having a deeper, loving and more satisfying experience of themselves and their relationships.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) offers a well-researched map which helps us navigate together why we might find ourselves disconnected and stuck. It gives us a hopeful path forward to a secure loving relationship.
Bronwyn’s style is collaborative, warm, caring and non-judgemental. For more information about me and how I work please see my website – www.yourpath.co.nz.
Emma Green
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 1: Externship
Registered Psychotherapist (MNZAP)
Registered Psychotherapist (MNZAP)
Address
The Psychotherapy Centre
Level 1, 300 Great South Road
Greenlane
Auckland
Level 1, 300 Great South Road
Greenlane
Auckland
Phone
0220 635 838
Email
Website
From Emma:
As soon as I came across Sue Johnson’s book Hold Me Tight I knew that I had discovered something that could help me and my partner strengthen our relationship and deepen our connection. Since then I have completed the EFT Family Therapy training and the EFT Couples Externship training.
I believe this way of working with couples has such success because it helps the couple find their way back to each other, helping them reconnect, perhaps more deeply than even before, facilitating new understandings and enhanced empathy and connection. How we behave when we are distressed and despairing and desperate to be heard and seen often leaves us getting less of what we want or need. EFT helps couples turn those patterns around enhancing connection, closeness and intimacy.
It is a real privilege to help couples work through their difficulties and to see them as they come to be able to turn towards each other for support. Seeing that light go on as they recognise that these patterns are there because they are so important to each other, that is what makes EFT such a hopeful approach for me.
