Motivational Interviewing Therapists in Palmerston North
My focus in therapy is creating a respectful space where your life can change for the better. If you want to confront something problematic, I am here to listen to and support you through whatever it may be. I have many years of experience as a practising therapist and have worked with various issues with men, women, and youth. I offer an open, caring space for you to take the time you need to achieve your goals.
My focus in therapy is creating a respectful space where your life can change for the better. If you want to confront something problematic, I am here to listen to and support you through whatever it may be. I have many years of experience as a practising therapist and have worked with various issues with men, women, and youth. I offer an open, caring space for you to take the time you need to achieve your goals.
I am an experienced Social Worker, Counsellor and Group Facilitator that has been involved in clinical work for the past 10+ years. I work alongside clients who are navigating major life transitions, coping with mental health challenges, or seeking greater self-awareness. My top specialties are relationship dynamics, men's issues, intimate partner abuse and violence, anger management, communication, and parenting.
I am an experienced Social Worker, Counsellor and Group Facilitator that has been involved in clinical work for the past 10+ years. I work alongside clients who are navigating major life transitions, coping with mental health challenges, or seeking greater self-awareness. My top specialties are relationship dynamics, men's issues, intimate partner abuse and violence, anger management, communication, and parenting.
Kia ora and hello! As we head into 2025 I have some availability for both couples counselling and individuals. I also offer a free initial ten minute consultation by telephone.
I'm a registered counsellor with experience in addressing all kinds of concerns; including depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, anger management, stress and navigating life transitions. I have a particular interest and experience in assisting men and women who have suffered personal or intergenerational trauma, along with relationship issues.
Kia ora and hello! As we head into 2025 I have some availability for both couples counselling and individuals. I also offer a free initial ten minute consultation by telephone.
I'm a registered counsellor with experience in addressing all kinds of concerns; including depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, anger management, stress and navigating life transitions. I have a particular interest and experience in assisting men and women who have suffered personal or intergenerational trauma, along with relationship issues.
We provide online consultations for anyone distressed and obsessed by their partner's sexual and/or romantic past (Retroactive Jealousy). We also specialize in work with sex addiction, HSB and MAP issues.
We provide online consultations for anyone distressed and obsessed by their partner's sexual and/or romantic past (Retroactive Jealousy). We also specialize in work with sex addiction, HSB and MAP issues.
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I am an enthusiastic, energetic and reliable individual with a wealth of experiences combined with appropriate qualifications who has been supporting individuals through general, complex and diverse issues they may experience. I believe in creative yet simple ways to bring out positive emotional, social and cognitive changes in people. I have a diverse and comprehensive educational background from the University of Adelaide and Delhi (India). I have current police checks, all my DCSI screenings. Providing E-Counselling to NRIs and Indians. In one sentence, encouraging self care, positivity and mental health is my life’s passion.
I am an enthusiastic, energetic and reliable individual with a wealth of experiences combined with appropriate qualifications who has been supporting individuals through general, complex and diverse issues they may experience. I believe in creative yet simple ways to bring out positive emotional, social and cognitive changes in people. I have a diverse and comprehensive educational background from the University of Adelaide and Delhi (India). I have current police checks, all my DCSI screenings. Providing E-Counselling to NRIs and Indians. In one sentence, encouraging self care, positivity and mental health is my life’s passion.
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I qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 2005 and worked for the NHS, before moving to New Zealand in 2009. I have worked for the District Health Boards/Te Whatu Ora in adult mental health. I now work full-time in private practice, seeing young people and adults over 16, and offering individual therapy. I can help with anxiety, stress, mood, worry, assertiveness and emotion regulation. My aim in therapy is to provide a warm and safe space where we can work together on achieving your goals. I pride myself on being approachable and easy to talk to.
I qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 2005 and worked for the NHS, before moving to New Zealand in 2009. I have worked for the District Health Boards/Te Whatu Ora in adult mental health. I now work full-time in private practice, seeing young people and adults over 16, and offering individual therapy. I can help with anxiety, stress, mood, worry, assertiveness and emotion regulation. My aim in therapy is to provide a warm and safe space where we can work together on achieving your goals. I pride myself on being approachable and easy to talk to.
Better Self - Better Relationships - Better World. If you're wanting more confidence in yourself, more trust in your relationships, and more acceptance in the world, then I may be able to help. You'll find me an active listener. Through evidence-based interventions, I'll build a supportive therapeutic alliance with you, enabling you to achieve positive change. However, this requires your commitment to effort, time, and investment. The average course is some half dozen sessions, while deeper issues generally need more. Currently, I'm able to offer $945 as prepayment for 6 standard 50-minute sessions - more than a 10% discount.
Better Self - Better Relationships - Better World. If you're wanting more confidence in yourself, more trust in your relationships, and more acceptance in the world, then I may be able to help. You'll find me an active listener. Through evidence-based interventions, I'll build a supportive therapeutic alliance with you, enabling you to achieve positive change. However, this requires your commitment to effort, time, and investment. The average course is some half dozen sessions, while deeper issues generally need more. Currently, I'm able to offer $945 as prepayment for 6 standard 50-minute sessions - more than a 10% discount.
Therapy is a place to feel known and understood, a place to overcome painful experiences, and explore new ways of being with yourself and others. I am a compassionate, warm and authentic person with 25 yrs experience in the mental health sector. I am trained in the following modalities; Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Addiction Counselling, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Diversity Affirming Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR).
Therapy is a place to feel known and understood, a place to overcome painful experiences, and explore new ways of being with yourself and others. I am a compassionate, warm and authentic person with 25 yrs experience in the mental health sector. I am trained in the following modalities; Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Addiction Counselling, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Diversity Affirming Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR).
Hello, I'm Bethany. I enjoy helping others and feel honoured to be part of a client's journey towards healing, freedom and becoming a more authentic and healthier version of themselves. I have experience working individually, with couples and groups. I provide a safe, accepting and affirming environment where growth, insight and discovery are nurtured.
Hello, I'm Bethany. I enjoy helping others and feel honoured to be part of a client's journey towards healing, freedom and becoming a more authentic and healthier version of themselves. I have experience working individually, with couples and groups. I provide a safe, accepting and affirming environment where growth, insight and discovery are nurtured.
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Can You Save Your Marriage? When you're lying in bed at night, feeling distant from your partner, it may seem hopeless. But change is possible—even if only one of you is ready to take the first step. Many successful professionals struggle with relationship issues like broken communication, constant conflicts, lost intimacy, or trust rebuilding. If you're tired of cold silence and talk of divorce, and traditional couples therapy isn't working, there’s hope. Grant Wattie specializes in online couples counselling using the Aroha Rapid Transformation Method, guiding individuals and couples through these challenges effectively.
Can You Save Your Marriage? When you're lying in bed at night, feeling distant from your partner, it may seem hopeless. But change is possible—even if only one of you is ready to take the first step. Many successful professionals struggle with relationship issues like broken communication, constant conflicts, lost intimacy, or trust rebuilding. If you're tired of cold silence and talk of divorce, and traditional couples therapy isn't working, there’s hope. Grant Wattie specializes in online couples counselling using the Aroha Rapid Transformation Method, guiding individuals and couples through these challenges effectively.
In my mahi, I understand that the path to wellness is unique to each person. Whether someone is dealing with anxiety, trauma, or navigating complex life transitions, I aim to provide a safe and supportive space for them to explore their journey. I take a holistic, strengths-based approach that helps individuals recognise their own resilience and take meaningful steps toward a more fulfilling pathway in life.
In my mahi, I understand that the path to wellness is unique to each person. Whether someone is dealing with anxiety, trauma, or navigating complex life transitions, I aim to provide a safe and supportive space for them to explore their journey. I take a holistic, strengths-based approach that helps individuals recognise their own resilience and take meaningful steps toward a more fulfilling pathway in life.
Kia ora. I’m Glen. I’m a counsellor and I help people to find things.
Find peace. Find strength. Find connection. Find energy. Find answers. Find purpose. Find a way forward.
Because we can get a bit lost when we're challenged by life. Stuck. Confused. Conflicted.
To me, counselling is about making time and space in your week to untangle things, lay them out, move the pieces around and start to get a better picture of what's going on.
Then we can work with life rather than against it and hopefully move towards better days. Visit lostandfoundcounselling.co.nz for more info.
Kia ora. I’m Glen. I’m a counsellor and I help people to find things.
Find peace. Find strength. Find connection. Find energy. Find answers. Find purpose. Find a way forward.
Because we can get a bit lost when we're challenged by life. Stuck. Confused. Conflicted.
To me, counselling is about making time and space in your week to untangle things, lay them out, move the pieces around and start to get a better picture of what's going on.
Then we can work with life rather than against it and hopefully move towards better days. Visit lostandfoundcounselling.co.nz for more info.
Commonly there is a range, e.g., addictions, mental health, offending, whānau dynamics, intergenerational trauma from colonisation and racist policies
Commonly there is a range, e.g., addictions, mental health, offending, whānau dynamics, intergenerational trauma from colonisation and racist policies
A blend of somatic therapy, (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, and Person-Centered Therapy.
Hi, my name is Saxon. I am a counsellor who knows personally how challenging life can be. If you are stuck in a cycle of pain and need support to get out of it - counselling could be right for you. I provide a safe, grounded and friendly space where you can explore your experiences and process emotions. If you're on a healing journey, just need help with a specific issue or just need someone compassionate and professional to listen, reach out, I would like to help.
A blend of somatic therapy, (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, and Person-Centered Therapy.
Hi, my name is Saxon. I am a counsellor who knows personally how challenging life can be. If you are stuck in a cycle of pain and need support to get out of it - counselling could be right for you. I provide a safe, grounded and friendly space where you can explore your experiences and process emotions. If you're on a healing journey, just need help with a specific issue or just need someone compassionate and professional to listen, reach out, I would like to help.
Life unfolds relentlessly, from high-stress corporate roles to the intricate responsibilities of a parent and caring for aging parents. Drawing from diverse experiences, I offer support to help you face life's demands and implement empowering practices.
Life unfolds relentlessly, from high-stress corporate roles to the intricate responsibilities of a parent and caring for aging parents. Drawing from diverse experiences, I offer support to help you face life's demands and implement empowering practices.
I am a Clinical Psychologist who enjoys working with people of all ages, genders and difficulties. I particularly enjoy working with young people and young adults who are struggling with their mental health in our challenging world.
I am a Clinical Psychologist who enjoys working with people of all ages, genders and difficulties. I particularly enjoy working with young people and young adults who are struggling with their mental health in our challenging world.
I use Client Centred Therapy and Narrative to aid rapport and re-telling of a client's story to aide the client in finding their strengths, Mindfulness based CBT for brief intervention and stress & anxiety/mood issues, Motivational Interviewing to aide positive change with behaviours and substances, and EMDR for PTSD, developmental based Anxiety, pain, dissociative experiences and recent trauma.
We all face mountains to climb in ours lives at some point, whether it’s loss, change, or a mental health challenge, any mountain can be climbed with support and a route map. Counselling can help us find our own path to heal, change, or manage our challenges in life. Counselling can give us new life tools and an independent lens on our situation, whether that’s a life decision, loss, change, or a mental health challenge. We are all different, and we are all capable of positive change with support and tools to help us.
I use Client Centred Therapy and Narrative to aid rapport and re-telling of a client's story to aide the client in finding their strengths, Mindfulness based CBT for brief intervention and stress & anxiety/mood issues, Motivational Interviewing to aide positive change with behaviours and substances, and EMDR for PTSD, developmental based Anxiety, pain, dissociative experiences and recent trauma.
We all face mountains to climb in ours lives at some point, whether it’s loss, change, or a mental health challenge, any mountain can be climbed with support and a route map. Counselling can help us find our own path to heal, change, or manage our challenges in life. Counselling can give us new life tools and an independent lens on our situation, whether that’s a life decision, loss, change, or a mental health challenge. We are all different, and we are all capable of positive change with support and tools to help us.
Many of the people I work with feel stuck—carrying grief, burnout, or patterns they can’t seem to break. Some have done personal work before; others are just beginning to untangle what’s beneath the surface. Others arrive in crisis, overwhelmed by loss or life-altering change, searching for steadiness.
They don’t just want to 'manage' things—they want to understand themselves, move through pain without getting lost in it, and feel more connected to who they are. Most of all, they want space to reflect and grow, without pressure to have it all figured out.
Many of the people I work with feel stuck—carrying grief, burnout, or patterns they can’t seem to break. Some have done personal work before; others are just beginning to untangle what’s beneath the surface. Others arrive in crisis, overwhelmed by loss or life-altering change, searching for steadiness.
They don’t just want to 'manage' things—they want to understand themselves, move through pain without getting lost in it, and feel more connected to who they are. Most of all, they want space to reflect and grow, without pressure to have it all figured out.
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Motivational Interviewing Counsellors
How does motivational interviewing work?
Motivational interviewing aims to uncover a person’s internal motivation to change their life. Toward this end, the therapist listens, empathises, and collaborates with the client based on their perspective; the therapist doesn’t adhere to a predetermined plan for change or impose their viewpoint on the client. Discovering an individual’s most important reasons for change, and guiding them to achieve those changes, can empower people to shift from ambivalence to action.
Is motivational interviewing evidence-based?
Yes, research shows that motivational interviewing can help treat alcohol and substance use — and in different ways such as reducing drinking, reducing resistance, and increasing the likelihood of staying in treatment. Motivational interviewing has also been shown to help people lose weight, adhere to medication regimens, improve diet for those with Type II diabetes, and improve healthy behaviours in children.
How long does motivational interviewing last?
Motivational interviewing is a short-term therapy that can last just one or two sessions. In some cases, motivational interviewing may be used in conjunction with longer-term therapies, but for most people, motivational interviewing is a brief intervention that aims to help patients understand their personal, specific, and internal reasons for changing their life.
What differentiates motivational interviewing from person-centered therapy?
In person-centered therapy, the individual is in the driver’s seat of the treatment process, creating space for them to trust their instincts and arrive at their own solutions. The two approaches are similar because motivational interviewing is also client-centered; however, person-centered therapy is more open-ended while motivational interviewing is somewhat more structured; the goal is to change, and the therapist helps the client specifically discover their internal motivations to modify their behaviour.