Our team at Albany Psychology Clinic , Mātou o te whare mātai hinengaro ki Ōtehā

Louise specialises in children, adults, trauma, clinical supervision, training and ACC-accredited psychology.

She has worked in the field of children and young people previously for over 10 years, in older adult mental health, and more recently in adult mental health in private practice (10 years). Louise has experience in family court work, intercountry adoption assessment, EMDR and trauma therapy, neuropsychotherapy and play therapy. As well, she also has experience in cognitive testing, particularly with the elderly.

Louise's areas of interest include CBT, ACT and mindfulness based interventions, EMDR and trauma therapy, Compassion Focused therapy. Louise is a member of NZCCP (committee member of Auckland branch), ACBS, EMDRNZ and EMDRA.

She is available Monday to Friday.

Kay has over 17 years experience working with children, teenagers and adults with anxiety, sadness, relationship difficulties, grief, trauma, stress.

She has worked for the DHB, primary care with GP’s, non-profit organisations and in private practice. She is an ACC sensitive claims therapist and is trained in CBT and trauma informed EMDR therapy.

Kay's areas of interest include:

• CBT ( Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)
• ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
• mindfulness
• EMDR
• play therapy
• trauma and grief work.

She offers supervision to practitioners.

She is available Monday to Friday.

Kirsty specialises in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based interventions. She has experience in compassionate and non-judgmental evidence based psychotherapy for individuals and groups.

Her memberships include New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists, Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, New Zealand Psychologists of Older People, Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Aotearoa, National Sleep Foundation.

Kirsty's area of interest is offering compassionate and non-judgmental evidence-based psychotherapy for individuals and groups. Kirsty has a special interest in resilience and brings this into her work. Kirsty works with clients experiencing anxiety, stress, depression, gender identity issues, grief and loss, trauma, anger, difficulties managing health issues such as pain, and challenges adjusting to pregnancy and becoming a parent. Kirsty also offers coaching. Coaching areas include stress management, goal achievement, improving performance, and wellbeing.

She is available Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

Samuel is a recent graduate of the Victoria University of Wellington Clinical Psychology programme. He has experience across both the private and public sector working with children, adolescents, adults and whānau experiencing depression, anxiety, stress, relationship difficulties, OCD and ADHD. Samuel’s areas of interest include CBT, family interventions, ACT and mindfulness-based interventions. He also has a special interest in clinical formulation which he incorporates into his work.

In addition to his clinical work, Samuel has published research internationally in the fields of theoretical and clinical psychology with an interest in topics such as diagnosis, theories of mental disorders, depression and clinical formulation.

He is available Monday to Friday

Regan is in his final year of training towards the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Massey University. His thesis is in the area of youth resilience with a focus on the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).

He enjoys working with people of all ages and all walks of life. Regan will be completing his internship with the Centre for Psychology until December 2021.

Regan's professional student memberships include NZPsS and NZCCP.

He is available Monday to Thursday.

With 30 years of clinical experience both in public and private mental health practice, Beverly specialises in CBT. Her areas of interest include anxiety disorders, clinical supervision, OCD and self-reflective practice.

In addition to clinical practice, for the past 18 years she has been a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Massey University, Auckland, where she taught the Postgraduate Diploma in CBT. She has a particular interest in CBT for the anxiety disorders (e.g. social anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, generalised anxiety disorder, PTSD, health anxiety and specific phobias). In addition

Beverly's research interests are in therapist training and supervision and the utility of low intensity CBT interventions. She has co-authored two books in the field: 'Experiencing CBT from the inside out: A self-practice/self-reflection workbook for therapists' (Bennett-Levy, Thwaites, Haarhoff & Perry, 2015) and 'Reflection in CBT' (Haarhoff & Thwaites, 2016).

She is available Monday.