Registered Counselling & Educational Psychologist

General Information and Work History:

Amanda has worked as a social worker and a school guidance counsellor, working with children, adolescents and their families. She has practised as a registered Educational and Counselling Psychologist for 12 years. Specialist roles include working with Educational Psychology assessments, a Behavioural Consultant for Traumatic Brain Injury and Suicide Prevention and Postvention.

Areas of Interest:

Amanda is interested in grief therapy; addressing the needs of mind, body & spirit after grief, loss and trauma. This has developed from her own personal Lived Experience of Bereavement by Suicide. Bereavement Counselling is useful for anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one, useful in the early grief experience or some years, even decades later.

Extreme grief can also be experienced when we lose a meaningful relationship through separation and divorce, job loss, loss of a homemaker role, country or lifestyle or adjustment to a new future such as after Traumatic Brain Injury.

She continues her interest with those struggling at school with friendship, emotional, behavioural and learning issues.

She continues her interest with those struggling at school with friendship, emotional, behavioural and learning issues.

She runs workshops for agencies in assisting caring for the bereaved after a suicide. She is a trainer and facilitator for the WAVES by skylight Bereaved by Suicide groups. She is a member of the Waitemata DHB suicide prevention advisory committee and of the Mental Health Foundation Lived Experience Advisory group.