Specialties
Healing After Trauma
For those healing from a significant life event—such as loss, injury, illness, or betrayal—or navigating the aftermath of trauma. This includes: - Betrayal trauma in Couples Therapy. - Veterans with PTSD or MST. - Shock, injury, or violation. - Trauma held in relationships and power structures—childhood, family, medical, cultural, or generational.
Support Through Transition
For those navigating a transition or turning point—where identity, choices, behaviours, relationships, or roles are shifting. This may involve: - Aspects to complete, learn from, or release. - Grief, pain, and healing. - Retrieving values once abandoned or left behind. - Gaining clarity about what’s emerging. - Meeting deeper needs or purpose.
Support for Relationships & Families
The push and pull we feel in relationships often points to earlier patterns or unmet needs, i.e. - Being authentic vs keeping the peace. - Having boundaries vs being ‘good’ or ‘good-to’. - The competition of one’s own needs vs everyone else’s. - Freedom vs security. - The quiet burial of desire to stay who we were raised, chosen, or expected to be. Relationship counselling offers a supportive space to untangle these tensions, restore connection, and move toward more honest, life-giving ways of relating. Sessions can be individual or include a partner, family member, or someone important to you.
Couples Therapy
For couples wanting to feel supported as two individuals, with the relationship honoured as a living ‘third’ between you. Together we’ll: - See beyond surface tension to deeper patterns, needs, and dynamics at play. - Listen beneath communication styles—to what’s said, what’s heard, and what’s quietly asking to be known. - Attune to the roots of current struggles—shaped by early life, culture, and memory. - Sense your relationship as something alive -- moving through cycles of connection, distance, chemistry, and growth. I also work with couples seeking to address and repair Betrayal Trauma through Couples Therapy.
Crisis Support
It’s time to change the stigma around crisis. Crisis is not reserved for the few— It is our unraveling, pushing us to locate something deeper. It's a human initiation we walk through. Crisis can come when: - We go through dark tunnels of the Unknown - What we knew, loved, or relied on falls away - When we forget who we are or why we are here - When we experience an amount of pain that we don't think is possible to handle - The structures that held us—internally or externally—begin to unravel
Support for Spiritual Emergency
When natural openings or awakenings (Spiritual Emergence) become overwhelming or ungrounding, they can turn into a Spiritual Emergency. This may look like: - Feeling destabilised—physically disoriented, emotionally in pieces, or without anchor - Drastic shifts in your meaning system—changes to attitude, beliefs, identity, or focus - Disorienting spiritual encounters, often paired with a need for spiritual boundaries - Heightened sensitivity to everyday environments, requiring spiritual hygiene or protocol and internal regulation - After-effects of peak experiences, altered states, out-of-body or near-death experiences that haven’t been fully integrated or witnessed in relationship
Support For Young People
Hello to one of the most challenging, revealing, confusing, and remarkable stretches of life. Do you feel like you're constantly changing, adapting—while also craving something solid in yourself, in who you are? Do you feel tested—sometimes in small, tedious ways, other times in all-consuming ones? We're talking friends, family, decisions, school, creativity, romance, sexuality, direction, passion, risk, confidence —or that pressure to prove yourself (especially to yourself). Now is the time to awaken curiosity, character, and your own capabilities—alongside your sense of wonder and possibility. If you’re wrestling with deeper questions about who you are or how you want to be — it’s important to realise where you draw your power, joy, and purpose. It's the time to find out.
Cultural Therapy & Cultural Healing
Cultural therapy is about rediscovering your deep (rather than surface) culture. I use the term Cultural Therapy to acknowledge: - That modern psychotherapy arises from Western academic and colonial lineages - That many healing practices predate this—held in Indigenous, ancestral, and community-based ways - That our identities carry complex experiences of displacement, loss, survival, adaptation, and belonging - That cultural reconnection can be a therapeutic process in itself This is a space where cultural identity, intergenerational memory, and personal meaning are welcomed—not pathologised.
Nature-Based Therapy
Nature is our primary guide and teacher. We need to rediscover nature because we need to break the small worlds that have been imposed by technology, work, modern culture, and ourselves. To connect with Life we need to reconnect with our living spirit. Nature is the intuitive teacher. Nature is the ever-adapting healer. Nature is a revealing experience. Nature knows.
OUR THERAPEUTIC APPROACH
SOMATIC BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY
NATURE-BASED THERAPY
FAMILY SYSTEMS THERAPY
CONTEMPLATIVE PSYCHOLOGY
CULTURAL THERAPY
PUKENGA MĀORI
EQUINE THERAPY
ECOPSYCHOLOGY
TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY
NEURO-PSYCHOBIOLOGY
GESTALT THERAPY
IFS/ PARTS WORK
EXPERIENTIAL PROCESS
RELATIONAL COUPLES THERAPY
"Haaweatea has done enough work in her own life to show vulnerability as strength, transparency as a moment's truth and laughter as necessity."
~ Tiffany H
"In one session we uncovered more pieces than the last two months of
(our regular) couples therapy."
~ Ron and Abby
"It cleared up the past years of my life to an understanding of myself, which I could embrace like a Heroine! It gave me an orientation for now and in the future."
~ Robbie F