Sue Morrison
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 4: Certified Therapist and Supervisor
MNZAP
MNZAP
Address
35 Victoria St
Wellington Central
Wellington Central
Phone
027 674 6698
Email
From Sue:
I have been working with couples for the past ten years to help create secure connections between partners.
This has healing implications for the wider family and for the individuals in their personal life, as well as – and most importantly – giving couples the experience of having a life partner who is a true friend and confidante.
I help you to make sense of the miscommunication between you and enable the loving and caring intent to take forefront in the way you communicate with each other.
EFT Supervision – I offer supervision to EFT therapists to help therapists be more attuned to themselves, the EFT model and their couples.
Dr. Celia James
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 4: Certified Therapist and Supervisor
MNZAC, MNZAP, Registered Psychotherapist
PhD, MA (Applied), BA (Hons),
Post Graduate Certificate Health (Eating Disorders),
Certificate Counselling
MNZAC, MNZAP, Registered Psychotherapist
PhD, MA (Applied), BA (Hons),
Post Graduate Certificate Health (Eating Disorders),
Certificate Counselling
Address
Dr. Celia James - Counselling and Psychotherapy,
3rd Floor, Tramways Building,
1 Thorndon Quay, Wellington.
3rd Floor, Tramways Building,
1 Thorndon Quay, Wellington.
Phone
021 336 245
Email
From Celia:
Our relationships with our loved ones are significant. They are the source of our greatest joy and can also be the cause
of our greatest pain. I am passionate about helping couples and individuals enhance and strengthen their close relationships.
I am passionate about Emotionally Focused Therapy which is the fastest growing evidence-based approach to working with couples.
Over and over again in my office I have experienced its power to help a wide range of couples such as same sex couples, and couples from diverse cultural and spiritual backgrounds.
All of us feel stuck and disconnected at times, and I can help you to reconnect with your important loved ones. I prioritise ongoing professional development as a therapist and supervisor.
I am available to offer couple therapy intensives. Intensives involve attending for several hours at a time over a 2-4 day period. I am an approved EFT Supervisor and I am available for supervision.
Annie Rogers
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 3: Certified
NZAP
TSTA
Psychotherapist
NZAP
TSTA
Psychotherapist
Address
Counselling and Psychotherapy Associates,
Level 3, 1 Thorndon Quay, Wellington.
Level 3, 1 Thorndon Quay, Wellington.
Phone
027 949 7331
Email
From Annie:
I have been working with couples for over 20 years. I am passionate about assisting people to experience the joy of sharing healthy and loving relationships throughout their lives.
Training in Emotionally Focused Therapy has been a wonderful personal and professional experience. It is pleasure to find a model that is so effective in transforming couples relationships.
I am passionate about supporting couples to work together to face their hurts in a way that enables a deepening and strengthening of their bonds. Our healthy relationships provide us all with resilience, love and compassion for others.
Dr Sarah Hayward
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 2: Additional
Child and family psychologist
MNZPS
BA(Hons)Psych
PhD
Child and family psychologist
MNZPS
BA(Hons)Psych
PhD
Address
Rooms in Whitby and Wellington CBD
Phone
021 412 702
Email
From Sarah:
My personal and professional work is with children, couples and families to support them to achieve loving relationships and wellbeing. I use the rich, attachment-based EFT approach in my work with couples and families. I have learnt that from a certain angle, love involves the desire to fully understand the experience of the other. I help people to understand themself, their partner, and the patterns that help or hinder the relationship, so that couples can be who they want to be with each other.
Prior to moving to New Zealand in 2005, I worked as a therapist and researcher for the Parenting and Family Support Centre, University of Queensland in Brisbane for over 10 years and am an accredited trainer for Triple P-Positive Parenting Program. In addition to working with couples, I specialise in working with parents, step-parents and foster parents to nourish their relationships with their children and to support children to develop to their potential.
I run a small private practice in Wellington. I am also a Principal Advisor, Development, Monitoring and Investigations at the Office of the Children's Commissioner, where I am responsible for monitoring Oranga Tamariki-Ministry for Children sites and residences to improve policy and practice for vulnerable children.
I completed my PhD in public health from the Queensland University of Technology in 2003. The topic of my PhD research was school-based mental health promotion. I have authored several articles on family risk factors, promoting family mental health, and the identification of children at risk of developing behavioural or emotional problems.
Fran Parkin
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 2: Additional
M Couns.
TSTA
MNZAP, MNZAC,
Psychotherapist, Counsellor
M Couns.
TSTA
MNZAP, MNZAC,
Psychotherapist, Counsellor
Address
Counselling and Psychotherapy Associates,
3rd floor, Tramways Building,
1 Thorndon Quay, Pipitea, Wellington.
3rd floor, Tramways Building,
1 Thorndon Quay, Pipitea, Wellington.
Phone
(04) 499 8526
Email
From Fran:
Working with couples is challenging and dynamic. Couples often arrive in therapy as a result of some crisis or feeling desperate or disheartened about their relationship.
Emotionally focused therapy is an even-handed and powerful way of helping couples to focus on the connection underneath the issues and get their relationship back on track- if that is what they want.
It comes from a solid research base and makes sense both personally and professionally. Practitioners in this approach get ongoing supervision and support so the work is constantly being reviewed and refreshed.
Marion Wade
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 2: Additional
MSc (Psychotherapy)
Post Graduate Diploma in Educational Studies
BA
ACC Registered
MSc (Psychotherapy)
Post Graduate Diploma in Educational Studies
BA
ACC Registered
Address
The Terrace, CBD
Wellington
Mail: PO Box 24 076,Wellington 6142
Wellington
Mail: PO Box 24 076,Wellington 6142
Phone
021 850 094
Email
From Marion:
I have worked with couples providing sex therapy since 1997. I realised that some couples needed particular assistance with their communication and tricky feelings they were stuck in, before they could make the most of sex therapy.
I find that an emotionally focused therapy can make the difference. While many relationships need help to achieve sexual satisfaction some need help to feel comfortable in intimacy and to feel emotionally safe together; before they can sort out their sexual situation.
I personally and professionally enjoy the EFT way of being and working. I find that when a couple relax and feel confident about feeling understood together, the benefits of this can extend into other relationships and areas of their lives.
I am at level 2 in regular supervision, working towards certification in EFT.
Cary Hayward
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 2: Additional
MNZAC
MANZPA
Diploma Psychotherapy
BA Psych
Post Grad Dip Education
MNZAC
MANZPA
Diploma Psychotherapy
BA Psych
Post Grad Dip Education
Address
Rooms in Whitby and Wellington CBD
Phone
027 2216871
Email
Website
From Cary:
I have had the privilege of leading the initial development of Emotionally Focused Therapy in New Zealand by bringing Dr Rebecca Jorgensen to New Zealand from 2008 to 2014.
Over this time I have worked very closely with Rebecca developing the organisation, training and practice of EFT in NZ, and have organised and hosted trainings to over 260 counsellors from NZ, Australia and the US.
Through this work I have had exposure to many training hours and many hours of conversation with Rebecca and other practitioners about the practice of EFT and its application to different aspects of relationship work.
I love working with couples, and for me EFT has brought a magic ingredient to this work. EFT focuses on the attachment dynamics in a relationship and how these influence the ways that we respond to one another and try to get what we need in our relationships – our patterns of connection and disconnection.
Once we can understand these patterns we can start to get beyond the dramas that get in the way, and to get to the places we want to be with one another. EFT helps us to move away from moments of disconnection, frustration or despair and to find our way to moments of satisfaction, connection, hope and love.
I work from a beautiful spot in Whitby with amazing views of the Pauatahanui Inlet and surrounding hills, and also from rooms in the CBD (Wellington). My website should be up in September ’15 with more information about me and the way I work.
May Sahar
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 3: Certified
NZAP (Provisional Member), PAnzA (Clinical Member)
B.A (Psych); Dip. Psychosynthesis Counselling
NZAP (Provisional Member), PAnzA (Clinical Member)
B.A (Psych); Dip. Psychosynthesis Counselling
Address
May Sahar Counselling & Therapy
Level 3, Braemar House, 32 The Terrace, Wellington CBD (2 days a week)
&
151 Wilton Road, Wilton, Wellington (2 days a week)
Level 3, Braemar House, 32 The Terrace, Wellington CBD (2 days a week)
&
151 Wilton Road, Wilton, Wellington (2 days a week)
Phone
021 403 818
Email
Website
From May:
When I was introduced to Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy as a way to work with distressed couples, it resonated with many of my core beliefs.
We all have the potential to grow and change; we are doing the best we can with what we are currently aware of; old patterns of relating we learned in our earlier years, which may have served us well once, can get in the way of creating a loving, intimate relationship as an adult.
I use EFT to focus on the emotional bond between you and your partner. When you understand the obstacles, you can learn how to reconnect and build closeness and security. We are all ‘a work in progress’ and I feel fortunate to be able to guide couples to rediscover the joy and satisfaction that a loving relationship can bestow.
Please have a look at my website if you would like to know more about me and the way I work.
Ines Ferrer-Bergua
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 2: Additional
Address
Private Practice in Strathmore & CBD,
Wellington
Wellington
Phone
021 038 4700
Email
From Ines:
We can get stuck in negative dynamics with our most loved ones, experience so much heartache and feel so alone. EFT is a great model that guides my work with couples to help them out of their distressing dynamics, find new ways of relating that brings closeness, healing and connection, and develop a more secure and trusting relationship.
Christine Thomson
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 2: Additional
MNZAC
Masters of Counselling
Diploma in Social Work
MNZAC
Masters of Counselling
Diploma in Social Work
Address
Rooms in: Kapiti, Porirua and Wellington CBD
Phone
021 247 4717
Email
From Christine:
Having seen and worked with different approaches to couple therapy, EFT stands out as a model that enables couples to readily get to their key issues and needs, and experience moments of change that have a lasting affect.
Couples come to understand the pattern of relating that creates distance, and develop a new pattern of relating based on a close connection, allowing them to deal with old and new hurts.
It is exciting to see them begin to share and respond to each-others needs in a free and trusting manner, and successfully deal with new challenges. My own relationships benefit daily from the principles of EFT.
Pauline Griffiths
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 2: Additional
Registered Clinical Psychologist (NZCCP)
Certified Sex Therapist (STNZ)
Registered Clinical Psychologist (NZCCP)
Certified Sex Therapist (STNZ)
Address
Level 2. Central House, 26 Brandon St
Wellington City
Wellington City
Phone
04-472 4198
Email
From Pauline:
Emotionally Focused Therapy training has significantly helped me deepen the work I do with couples and individuals. It has been a real privilege and joy to see couples I work with, understanding their negative patterns and strengthening their connection to each other and then developing more secure bonds of love, friendship, healing and trust.
Valeska Campion
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 2: Additional
Address
Campion Counselling
Level 1, 35 Victoria Street
Wellington CBD
Level 1, 35 Victoria Street
Wellington CBD
Phone
0272 389 344
Email
Website
From Valeska:
Couples often come to therapy in response to a crisis in their lives – feeling disconnected and distanced from each other, stuck in negative patterns or after the trauma of an affair. Maybe you find it hard to share your insecurities and secrets with your partner for fear of being rejected or judged unfavourably.
EFT is a powerful method to help couples find their way to more secure and loving relationships, where they can feel loved and get their needs met by one another. Healthy relationships provide us with resilience, and compassion for each other. You will come to understand the pattern of relating that creates distance and conflict and develop new ways of connecting based on open and trusting behaviour.
I have experience working with people of different sexual identities, as well as couples struggling after affairs and sexual addictions, and am very accepting and non-judgemental.
Belinda Hodson
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 2: Additional
MNZAC
Bachelor of Counselling
MNZAC
Bachelor of Counselling
Address
Rooms in: Porirua, Johnsonville and Wellington CBD
Phone
027 659 4450
Email
Website
From Belinda:
For many, the decision to seek professional help for their relationship is often a big and scary step. I know this from my own experience of seeking help many years ago with my own.
I use Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) because it is respecting of people’s beliefs and values about relationships, is non-judgemental and the couples I see feel safe to explore the issues in their relationship that really matter to them.
30 years of research proves the effectiveness of EFT and many NZ therapists I speak to who use this approach agree.
In addition to de-escalating conflict, EFT helps deepen the connection with one another. A deep connection of closeness and love creates lasting results from therapy and is often the single most important thing people seek in their relationship.
Helping couples rediscover that connection is a privilege.
Dr. Celia Felchi
EFT Level & Qualifications
Level 1: Externship
Address
Kotahitanga: Wellbeing, Unity and New Beginnings,
35 Box Hill,
Khandallah,
Wellington 6035
35 Box Hill,
Khandallah,
Wellington 6035
Phone
021 672 017
Email
Website
From Celia:
Celia is a registered psychologist and specialises working with parenting, adolescents, families and couples.
She also has special interest in working with families with unique family situations such as children who present with
Motor Stereotypies Disorder, Autism, ADHD, and attachment issues. Or managing to live with additional (or care for)
additional family members such as grandparents (independent or otherwise).
Celia has two children.
