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ABOUT ME

I wish to introduce myself as highly qualified and extensively trained Mental Health Professional of 23 years, with a comprehensive background in hospital and community based mental health services.

I have operated as a private practitioner, within my own premise, since 2005. I provide counselling, therapy, and treatment based on the sound psychological principle that our thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs influence the way we feel and behave. To complement therapy I can also offer Clinical Hypnotherapy for stress management or, if desired, for more targeted goals.

Freedom

When unattended, our thinking runs our lives without our even knowing it. Attended with mindful awareness, we have a chance not only to know ourselves better, and see what is on our minds, but also to hold our thoughts differently, with greater wisdom, so they no longer rule our lives.

Jon Kabat - Zinn

Accepting what is

Acceptance doesn't, by an stretch of the imagination, mean passive resignation. Quite the opposite. It takes a huge amount of fortitude and motivation to accept what is especially when you don't like it and then work mindfully as best you possibly can with the circumstances you find yourself in, and with the resources at your disposal, to be in wise relationship to what is, which may mean at some point acting to mitigate, heal, redirect, or change what can be changed.

Jon Kabat - Zinn

Anxiety

Panic Attacks, Agoraphobia, Social/Performance Anxiety, Generalised Anxiety, Specific Phobias, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Hoarding.

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Depression

We all know what it is like to be sad and miserable. It is normal for moods to go up and down from day to day, but the downward sweep of these fluctuations is usually not severe enough to make you depressed. It is important however, to seek help if your low mood feels as if it has got stuck and gives you no respite.

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Assertiveness

Assertiveness is a skill based on the idea that your needs, wants, and feelings are neither more or less important than those of other people: they are equally important.

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Stress Management

Therapy may include Diaphragmatic Breathing and Relaxation, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Decision Making, Time Management, Life Changes or addressing Lifestyle Imbalances, Resource Strengthening.

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Phone: 03 384 7405

Cell phone: 027 628 3429

Fax: 03 384 7406

Address

Joy Kinder
Mindfree
Unit 5, Tussock Lane
Ferrymead