Certified Havening Techniques® Practitioner. Red Beach, Auckland.
The short version
I trained in psychology and counselling. I spent a long time in the world of talking things through, and I still believe in it.
I also came to think that talking was not always getting people all the way to where they wanted to be. You can understand something completely and still feel it in your body every time it comes up. That gap is what bothered me.
How I found Havening
I heard about it on a podcast, of all places.
What caught me was that it did not ask people to go back through the worst of it out loud. That is a lot to ask of someone, and it is the reason plenty of people never walk into a room like mine in the first place.
It also seemed flexible in a way I liked. It meets people where they are rather than putting them through a process. And it hands people something they can use themselves, which matters to me more than I expected it to.
Then I had it done on me
This is the part I did not see coming.
I went in curious and professional about it. What I came out with was the confidence to believe I was actually enough to sit with someone else's difficult thing. I had not realised I was carrying a doubt about that until it was not there any more.
I do not think you can offer someone something you have not been through yourself. Not properly.
What I bring
A background in psychology and counselling, which shapes how I listen even though I am not doing that work here.
And the other thing, which is harder to put on a qualifications list. I have had my own difficult stretches. That is where the compassion comes from, and compassion is genuinely the thing I think makes the difference. Not technique. Technique is learnable.
Sitting with someone without flinching or fixing is a different skill.
What I believe
That no one should have to face their hard things on their own. That is where the name Thrive Together came from, and it is not a slogan, it is the actual reason I do this.
I work with people from all walks of life. I am not here to judge what you bring, rank it against anyone else's, or tell you it is not that bad.
Qualifications
Certified Havening Techniques® Practitioner, April 2026. Certification and practitioner standards are at havening.org.
Postgraduate qualification in counselling and guidance
Bachelor of Arts, majoring in psychology
I am not a registered psychologist or psychotherapist. Havening is not psychotherapy, and I will always tell you when something belongs with a registered professional rather than with me.
