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).

Spirituality is often an important aspect of the work that people do with me. My approach is to offer a space and a presence that supports people to listen deeply within. In terms of my own spiritual identity and background: I have both Catholic and Protestant whakapapa, and a home base in Quaker spirituality and the Anglican tradition. While a lover of holy places, traditions, and scripture, I am also part of the great exile or diaspora from traditional forms of religion/Christianity that longs for more generous, life-affirming wisdom and community, and experiences the Spirit moving on the edges and beyond our received religious forms.

But the yearnings stirring in us can in fact be seeds of new beginnings. Our exile can be a recovery of our true faith in one another and in the Earth. (J. Philip Newell).

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

I work from Ōhinetahi/Governor’s Bay, twenty minutes south of Ōtautahi/Christchurch. I have a limited number of spaces for Zoom-based sessions.