Practitioners

Tamara is an integrative nutritionist whose strong focus on functional medicine ensures she finds root cause of any chronic disease and treats it accordingly.

A results-driven practitioner, Tamara loves helping people who have unsuccessfully navigated a more traditional medical route of general practitioners and specialists. She’s a detective of health, researching underlying causes and seeking to understand what hidden drivers may be affecting her clients’ nutritional wellbeing.

Her particular areas of interest include weight loss and self-esteem issues. If you have an ongoing health issue you have yet to find an answer for, book yourself in for some functional testing with Tamara today!

Tamsin studied a psychology degree at Oxford University because she was fascinated by how the mind works and how understanding this might enable people to live better lives.

Tamsin is a coach who looks at mindful parenting, wellbeing, relationships and change. She works with adults and teenagers, using a combination of mindfulness, ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy) CBT (Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy as well as other models. Tamsin loves being able to empower her clients to go on and live low-stress, fulfilling lives.

Clients leave her care equipped with the tools needed to thrive and solve problems in the future. Her areas of interest include overall health issues, parenting, relationships and mindfulness.

Tamsin is a dynamic practitioner, who will help you tackle any issues head on, leaving you ready to live a full and rewarding life. If you are looking for a coach to help you, get in touch with Tamsin today!

Chantelle is a Naturopath, Medical Herbalist, as well as a Fertility Educator and she helps women to turn around their health and feel amazing – especially whilst navigating through life’s challenges such as stress, anxiety, grief, dieting & weight loss, puberty, infertility, menopause, and hormones gone wild.

Under Chantelle’s care you will benefit from a combination of therapies such as: targeted supplements, herbal medicine, nutrition, massage, coaching, fertility charting and functional testing.  When you work with her you will get an honest and loving review of your health.  If you need to address a health concern, she will take it seriously, and together you will create a treatment plan that works for you.

Chantelle’s decision to become a Naturopath came after some serious introspection following a period of personal burnout and a general decline in her wellbeing.  Over the years Chantelle has worked hard to heal her nervous system, to nourish her soul, balance her hormones, and to understand the infertility that herself and her husband have experienced.  Her personal experience in these areas help to strengthen her practice, providing a unique perspective when working with clients.  Chantelle truly understands what it is like to struggle through trying times in life, but  knows that there is hope on the other side, sometimes we just need a little help to get through.

If you are in need of a Naturopath to help you manage burnout, stress, anxiety or infertility or any of the many other challenges that women face in this modern world Chantelle is waiting to work with you. Book an appointment with her today!

Virginia is Restore Wellbeing’s Osteopath. She lives locally with her husband and two young children.

Virginia graduated with her Masters of Osteopathy in 2007. She initially ran a busy practice in Albany, Auckland, before she began splitting her time between clinical work and teaching at Unitec’s Osteopathy School. These days Virginia is busy with family life so she has chosen to restart her osteopathic practice closer to home.

In her clinical practice, Virginia relishes the challenge of working with people that are facing complex issues with their health. This often includes chronic pain, headaches, or recurrent injury. Virginia is ACC registered and can help with new or unresolved injuries. She enjoys collaborating with other health professionals to ensure that her patients are accessing the best healthcare possible.

Virginia has a keen interest in helping pregnant women, tired mums with sore bodies, unsettled babies, and kids with movement challenges.

Renato is an eclectic Clinical Hypnotherapist and an inspiring Life Coach who loves facilitating peoples’ inner journeys. With an innate talent for catalysing self-awareness, healing and personal growth, he is on a mission to “maximise the quality of life and harmony by facilitating self-discovery and unobstructed self-expression”.

He offers a collaborative, experiential and mindfulness-based approach focused on people’s values, strengths, skills toward solutions, emotional release and breakthrough insights from bridging the conscious and unconscious mind, rather than extensive analysis of the past.

Combining hypnotherapy and coaching with a range of disciplines, he incorporates timeline-based therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy, NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming), ESI (Executive State Identification), Systems Thinking and others, adapting as needed to suit each client’s unique path to wellbeing.

Renato sees everyone holistically and thrives on helping people to bring the various fragmented, scattered and often conflicting parts of themselves and their lives together into “one” integrated, functional, vibrant, authentic and harmonious life.

He is particularly skilled in helping people suffering from stress, anxiety and related conditions triggered or aggravated by stress; people going through or anticipating challenging life transitions; disconnected from their values or lacking a sense of direction; overwhelmed by anger, fear, guilt, hurt or other emotional blocks and unhelpful thoughts; struggling with career, parenting or challenging relationships as well as clients willing to get into healthier habits and lifestyle.

His experience with organisational teams, high-pressure project environments and life transitions offer him insightful, practical and results-driven perspectives to help clients sustain balance and apply the learnings in their lives outside the therapy room.

Whether you need healing, getting unstuck or stepping up your game, he can help you to transcend the limits of your conscious mind to create a fuller life aligned with your values.

Renato is a certified Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist by the NZ School of Professional Hypnotherapy, Classical Hypnotist, certified HypnoFit Therapist, Breakthrough and Abundance Life Coach, member of the Australia and New Zealand Coaching Alliance (ANZCAL) and ESI (Executive State Identification) practitioner, having also studied Education Psychology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Applied Philosophy – “The classic way”, Computing and Earth Sciences. He started his therapeutic journey more than two decades ago in Brazil, having worked with hundreds of people as a bioenergy practitioner, instructor of growth mindset, lucid dreaming and guided meditation groups. His therapeutic career developed alongside a successful career in the technology industry focused on emergent, humanistic and flow-based management practices. Over the past seven years, he has been developing a framework for a unified life flow, as well as the application of therapeutic principles into practices for happier, healthier and more productive teams and workplaces.

Mathew is a registered counselling psychologist with extensive experience in trauma work, coaching, mentoring and training. His more recent interests lie in supporting organisational development and couples therapy. Drawing from advancements in neuroscience, Mathew provides practical, informational frameworks to understand the ‘what’, ‘how’ and ‘why’ of psychological experience; and its impact on decision making, performance, relationships and well-being.

Mathew is trained in a number of therapeutic approaches including ACT, CBT, DBT, MI and Neuro-psychotherapy. He takes a client-centred, eclectic approach to therapy and works along with clients to derive practical, and lasting solutions to challenging issues.

Mathew’s work experience includes roles in the private, public and non-profit sector. In a previous role, he developed a nationally delivered training program on brining an experiential and culturally relevant lens to supporting survivors of trauma.

Mathew completed his Psychology training at the Auckland University of Technology and holds a Master’s Degree in Health Science (Psychology) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling Psychology. He also has a degree in Computer Engineering and in a previous work life, used to design for web based applications bringing an aesthetic and UX focus.

Louise is a skilled Counsellor and ACC Therapist, who is experienced in working with mental health and emotional wellbeing issues. She is ACC accredited for sensitive issue counselling (sexual trauma).

Working across a range of counselling modalities, including CBT, DBT, Narrative Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Louise works within a trauma informed and integrative approach, so that whatever approach it is that you need, is tailored for you.

Louise also works with a wide range of other concerns and problems you may be experiencing, including depression, anxiety, grief, significant life events and stress. She has provided safe and helpful support for people at difficult times in their lives for more than twenty years and continues to work in this way, supporting people to understand what they are going through and exploring useful ways of relating and coping.

Relating and connecting easily with a diverse range of people, you will find Louise warm, empathetic and able to establish connection and a good working relationship quickly and effectively, so that you are able to get right to work on issues that you are wanting to address, developing a deeper understanding of yourself.

If you would like to positively move forward with your life and be supported in discovering what this looks like for you, healing and addressing challenges and concerns, finding ways of dealing with them and developing safe and satisfying ways of living, contact Louise to make a booking.

Counselling with Maree is a collaborative process involving reflection on the ways you are being influenced and are influencing the problems you experience. With Maree you will consider your strengths, resources and values and using these, make visible and possible, alternative directions to support the change you seek.

Maree brings a varied background to her counselling practice including a research, publication and advocacy history as well as counselling work in private, NGO and tertiary education environments. She has worked at the University of Auckland as a counsellor since 2011 and prior to that she was the director of the Eating Difficulties Education Network (EDEN). Her counselling approach utilises narrative and relational externalising ideas.

What Can You Expect?

• Collaborative and respectful conversations which focus upon areas that are important to you
• Developing shared understandings of the ways in which problems have been sustained and challenged in your life (this can include an in-depth exploration of how disordered eating is impacting you or a loved one, and next steps).
• Examining and strengthening your commitments, skills, hopes and values in order to change your relationship with the problem(s) and alter its influence in your life
• A greater sense of agency and personal influence
• A growing sense of preferred possibilities for yourself and support to make these changes.

Maree  considers it a privilege to be invited to be a part of counselling conversations with you to facilitate a process of exploration and change.

Maree holds a PhD in psychology from Auckland University, a Grad Dip Counselling from Unitec Auckland and is a Member of New Zealand Association of Counsellors.

Angela’s bio is on its way… stay tuned