PSI Practitioners
Are you tired of spending time in therapy analysing your problems but find you're not able to change them? Do you have lots of "insight" that doesn't seem to help you actually get a handle on your behaviour? PSI enables you to re-embody yourself, identify and establish personal boundaries, match the right “feed to the right need”, and frees up energy entangled in eating compulsions, and relationship struggles. The following clinicians have been fully trained to use PSI (PsychoSomatic Integration). To find a PSI practitioner, see below
Ali Andrew
Manager, Phoenix House Counselling and Psychotherapy,
Henderson, West Auckland Qualifications: Dip Counselling MNZCCA Ali has over 15 years experience as a counsellor and art therapist. She works with a culturally and socio-economically diverse range of individual adults and couples who present with relationship issues, abuse and trauma histories, problems with depression, anxiety, anger and grief, and spiritual concerns. She blends interactive drawing and art therapy with PSI, creating a very effective therapy process. Email Ali Mobile Phone: 021 232 2701 Charlotte Bell
Reg Psychotherapist #PB385,
Grad Dip Psychotherapy, AUT MNZCCA (Life Member), Dip OT, Cert Bib Couns; ACC Approved Not currently taking new clients Associate Director of the Auckland PSI Institute Co-founder of Life Unlimited Counselling Charlotte also helped to found NZCCA She works with a wide range of issues including depression, anxiety, family issues, eating disorders and addiction. She has a special interest in early childhood deficits and abuse and how they impact on adult life. Her work is client centred, incorporating PSI within a spiritual perspective. WHAT IS PSI?PSI (PsychoSomatic Integration) is an overall evidence-based treatment approach for working with complex trauma and dissociation, that addresses the root causes of trauma-based presentations and fragmentation, and so results in long term recovery. Highly effective psychological and somatic techniques are woven into a carefully staged treatment approach, which systemically integrates significant relationships into the treatment process. PSI seeks to heal early experiences of abandonment, neglect, trauma, and attachment loss, that otherwise tend to play out repetitively and cyclically throughout the lifespan in relationship struggles. It is unique in that it approaches the body first (bottom-up processing) but also works to reinstate systems of meaning.
1. BODILY MINDFULNESS THERAPIES address the bottom-up processing that so often renders verbal psychotherapy ineffective. They are particularly powerful when used to help couples and families become aware of their non-verbal communications and automatic reactions and gain more mastery over them. They also assist survivors of trauma to ground and cope with their frequent experiences of both hyper-activation (overwhelm) and hypo-activation (dissociation). Sensorimotor Psychotherapy draws from somatic therapies, neuroscience, attachment theory, as well as from the Hakomi Method, a gentle psychotherapeutic approach pioneered by Ron Kurtz. (http://www.hakomi.com/). 4. TRAUMA WORK
The PSI Institute Seeks to:Offer support, provide resources and training, and teach self-care to front-line service providers and gate-keepers who are likely to come into a good deal of contact with survivors of the full spectrum of complex psychological trauma.
Auckland PSI Institute Judy Lightstone, Founder, Director Charlotte Bell, Associate Director |
Agnès Sigley
Family Therapist, Arts Therapist, Counsellor,
Youthline House, Grey Lynn MNZAC - NZAFT - CTAA (chair) ACC approved Qualifications: PGDip.HSci, Cert PSI, Cert. Family Therapy, Cert.Sandplay Therapy, BA Communications Agnès is an experienced Counsellor, Family Therapist and Arts Therapist. She specialises in relationship, anxiety, grief, depression and trauma issues,working with children, youth, adults and families. A warm and intuitive person, she addresses issues holistically, respecting individual needs and pace, using Mindfulness, PsychoSomatic Integration, Expressive Arts and Sandplay. She is a published author and has participated in group art exhibitions. Fluent in French; EAP & OCP contractor; Facilitator, The Parenting Place.. www.expressiveartstherapy.co.nz
Email Agnès Mobile Phone: 027 642 2064 Amber Davies
Reg Psychotherapist #PD461, MHSc Psychotherapy (Hons), Grad Dip Psychosocial Studies, AUT, NZAP
Director, Mindwise Auckland ACC Approved EMDR Institute Trained Over the last 10 years Amber has had broad experience in clinical leadership and management in youth development, mental health and transitions. She specialises in working with issues of: trauma, anxiety, depression, and people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. She is a skilled and experienced group facilitator and trainer and works with both adolescents and adults. Email Amber Mobile Phone: 021 646 358
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