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.

Tamara has a special interest in and is passionate about: mental health, cancer utilising the metabolic theory of cancer approach, and auto immune diseases

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.

She is a therapist and coach who works with emotional/psychological wellbeing, relationships, parenting and change. Tamsin assists both adults and teenagers, using a combination of mindfulness, ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy) and CBT, amongst other models. She loves being able to empower her clients to process difficult emotions, build positive habits, and go on to live lower stress, fulfilling lives, in line with their true values.

Clients leave Tamsin’s care equipped with the tools needed to thrive, solve future life challenges, and have more connected relationships.  Her areas of interest include anxiety, stress & health, work-life balance, skilful communication, and life direction.

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

Karlena is a mother to a beautiful girl and partner to a loving petrol head. She loves spending time with her family and friends & eating out is always a treat! She graduated the Diploma in Beauty Therapy in 2015 and received two special awards as ‘Top Beautician’ and ‘Body Therapist of the Year’. Beauty therapy is Karlena’s passion and making others feel good about themselves is her biggest reward!

Brow Therapy, provides luxury brow services for Mama’s and Busy Women wanting to relax and unwind.  Each Signature treatment is much more than just a brow or lash appointment. There is a true focus around relaxation and unwinding through signature features – You will walk away feeling and looking like a new woman.

Karlena is a qualified Beauty Therapist with a fast growing local client base. Her beauty therapy style is a blend of gentle client care and perfection – you are seen as the beautiful person you are, not just a name in a calendar.

If you’re looking for a Brow Therapist or are wanting a change, book online today to secure your own Signature Brow Therapy experience.

Brow Therapy also offers hair removal services. From brazilians and legs right down to us Mama’s not so favourite hair removal, the lip and chin.

Still not sure? Head along to Google, Facebook or Instagram and search “@browtherapynz” to see what others have to say about their experiences with Brow Therapy.

Tom is Restore Wellbeing’s resident Acupuncturist, he is an experienced practitioner & a member of NZRA (New Zealand Register of Acupuncturists Inc) as well as an ACC Treatment Provider. He has been living in NZ for the past 10 years and has an extensive range of Qualifications from both South Korea and NZ . Tom enjoys combining a wide range of skills such as needling, moxibustion, cupping and electric stimulation in his treatments and believes our bodies have the natural ability to heal and that TCM(Traditional Chinese Medicine) treatment promotes self-healing. TCM treatment is not only to treat physical problems but also to address issues such as anxiety and depression, as its incredibly effective in calming the mind.  A lot of people think about needling as a very painful method , even sometimes those who have had tattoos, Tom always endeavors to practice safe and painless needling in a relaxing environment whilst working within medical guidelines.

Acupuncture is a wonderful therapy, both in its own right or along side other treatment options as its very complimentary. If you are seeing a Physio or Osteopath for an injury, you can use your ACC number to see Tom as well to compliment your other treatment.

Bettina is a registered Naturopath, Nutritionist and Medical Herbalist.

Bettina’s passion about nutrition and natural medicine translates into her love to help people on their quest to achieve the best for their health and wellness.  Originally from Germany, Bettina has been enjoying living in New Zealand since 1998.

Bettina gained sound medical knowledge from working in the medical field for more than 25 years.  As a medical assistant she worked alongside GPs and specialists and later completed studies in a specialised field of cancer diagnosis, working in both Germany and New Zealand.

Enthusiastic about healthy ageing and a holistic approach to wellbeing she completed diplomas of natural therapies with distinction in Auckland.

Since then Bettina enjoyed supporting people’s health in locations such as pharmacy, health store, natural health clinic and being quizzed about natural health in a local radio show.  Bettina’s approach is to listen and work with people creating a wellness plan that suits their individual needs and fits into their life. She will take a detailed health history and uses Functional testing when applicable to evaluate wellbeing and address underlying causes. She enjoys helping people to make the right choices for their wellbeing and loves when they feel the difference it makes for their life. Bettina’s special interests are in preventative care, healthy ageing and chronic health conditions including support around cancer therapies. Bettina is mindful that sometimes change needs to be in little steps and she is happy to guide people on their health journey. She believes that “Every step we make has the power to heal and transform.”