Ko Malabar tōku maunga
Ko Arabian Sea tōku moana
Nō Mumbai, Īnia, ahau
Kei Ōhinetahi tōku kainga ināianei

“As the light shone, the seed grew…”

I was born in Bombay/Mumbai, India. My mountain is Malabar Hill. My water is the Arabian Sea. My mother’s people are Scottish and Cumbrian; my father’s are mainly Irish. Our family moved to Aotearoa when I was young.  

I have many years of experience as a psychotherapist, group worker, supervisor, and trainer of counsellors and psychotherapists. My primary approach is gestalt therapy. I also integrate perspectives from other approaches in which I have training, experience and interest, mainly psychodynamic and depth psychotherapy.  

I take a broad, integrative approach to therapy, inviting all parts of self to the journey (body and spirit, mind and soul, individual and group, person and environment). My home base is Quaker spirituality, though I have a long-held interest in Eastern wisdom traditions and bodywork.

I am a registered psychotherapist with the Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand (PBANZ), and a full member of the Association of Psychotherapists Aotearoa New Zealand (APANZ, formerly NZAP) and the Gestalt Association of Australia and New Zealand (GANZ). I am an ACC provider for sensitive claims.   

I mainly work from Ōhinetahi (Governor’s Bay) but I also work one morning a week in Ōtautahi (Christchurch). I have a limited number of spaces for Zoom-based sessions.