I was born in Bombay/Mumbai, India. My mountain is Malabar Hill. My water is the Arabian Sea. My mother’s people are Protestant - a mixture of Scottish, Cumbrian, and Australian Nonconformists and Anglicans. My father’s people are Catholic - escaping the nineteenth century Irish potato famines to settle in northern England. 

My family moved to Aotearoa when I was young. I now live in Ōhinetahi with my wife and children, under the gaze of the Seven Sisters/Matariki (western Port Hills). 

I have many years of experience as a psychotherapist, group worker, supervisor, and a trainer of counsellors and psychotherapists. I received cultural training on wānaka with Rev. Maurice Manawaroa Gray (Upoko Rūnaka o Te Rūnaka ki Ōtautahi o Kāi Tahu, until his death in 2021).

Although I integrate other models and understandings, my core therapeutic approaches are gestalt therapy and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Gestalt therapy is a present-centred approach characterized by presence, dialogue and creative, experiential methods, whereas psychodynamic psychotherapy is interested in how our early emotional experiences contribute to our deeper sense of self and psychological development. Both are deeply interested in the quality of our relationships, how we experience and interpret the world, and in cultivating (in therapy) a space and connection that supports greater awareness, choice, and aliveness. I also draw from the wisdom of depth and transpersonal psychologies, and contemplative spirituality.

I am a registered psychotherapist with the Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand (PBANZ), and a full member of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists (NZAP) and the Gestalt Association of Australia and New Zealand (GANZ). I am an ACC provider for sensitive claims. My qualifications include a Master of Arts (in Political Science and Religious Studies), a Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy and accreditation through the Gestalt Institute of New Zealand, and postgraduate studies in discursive therapies, clinical supervision and mind-body healthcare. 

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

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…”