Sharlene Ellis
Co-owner of Restore Wellbeing
Naturopath, Medical Herbalist & Reiki Healer
Sharlene is the resident Naturopath and Medical Herbalist and is also a talented Reiki healer. Sharlene has been instrumental in bringing the Restore Wellbeings vision to life.
She provides a wide range of clinical testing including Live Blood Analysis (LBA), Vitality (VLA) testing, hair analysis for food and environmental intolerances, and functional testing. Sharlene’s friendly manner will immediately put you at ease, and her thorough method of testing and problem solving will set you on the right track to revolutionise your health.
Sharlene loves to build relationships with people, touching base regularly to make sure you continue to feel revitalised, and energetic. She enjoys the ongoing interactions Naturopathy offers – using her specialist training to help women find comfort in easing menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes, night sweats, headaches and mood swings and assisting couples to find new levels of health increasing their chances of a smooth pregnancy from pre-conception care to easier delivery and a healthy baby.
Sharlene is also particularly skilled at working with people suffering from chronic fatigue or clients who are going through cancer treatment. Her empathetic and highly skilled approach will help you determine the best possible treatment plan for your condition. If you are feeling run down and lacking energy, a consultation with Sharlene is a great place to start. Her Naturopathic offerings work well with a number of other practitioners working at Restore, and together they will empower you to feel in control of your health and happiness.
Viv Butler
Co-owner of Restore Wellbeing
Massage Therapist & Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner
Viv is the co-owner of Restore Wellbeing, a space she created with Sharlene to provide a range of natural and holistic health options under one roof.
Viv leads the team of Massage Therapists at Restore, She relishes a challenge and brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. As well as her Massage qualifications Viv also is a certified practitioner in The Feldenkrais Method® and combines her decade of knowledge and experience in the Massage Therapy field with using neuroplasticity to teach movement and awareness, creating possibilities for new neural pathways and changes in lifelong habitual movement patterns, allowing her clients to move with ease and less pain.
She loves working with clients to help them better understand how awareness of their day to day movement is affecting them and how having different movement options could serve them better and help them to manage and alleviate pain, stress and anxiety. Viv offers one on one Functional Integration Lessons and teaches group Awareness through Movement lessons and workshops in the community.
She has worked extensively with a wide range of people including pregnant women, athletes, office workers as well as people in desperate need of a little rest and relaxation. A Massage or Feldenkrais lesson with Viv will leave you feeling empowered and with a new sense of mobility, delivering you freedom of movement and the tools needed to take the best possible care of your precious body.
Robyn Carley
Massage Therapist and Bowen Practitioner
Robyn is one of the fantastic massage therapists working at Revival Massage Therapy. Robyn loves helping those in pain find comfort and relief through massage, she is a wonderfully skilled therapist and with over 16 years Remedial massage experience, she really has a knack for isolating points of stress in the body and working these areas effectively to treat pain and tension.
Robyn thrives on working with people dealing with chronic or acute stress and is extremely talented at working intuitively with her clients to calm their nervous system to help reduce their stress levels as well as effectively treat the symptoms that go along with it such as neck and shoulder tension, back pain or reduced movement. Robyn will make you feel great on the table, through relaxation massage or through targeted work on tight or stressed muscles due to postural reasons.
Using her 7 years of experience in Bowen Therapy, as well as her recent and ongoing training in both Craniosacral therapy and Contact Care, Robyn will ensure that she will give you a truly holistic treatment. She has worked extensively with a wide range of people including office workers, sports people, as well as people suffering from trauma and mental illness.
If you wish to get some control over how you manage stress, stiffness and pain in your body, then Robyn is the therapist for you. She will ensure you get off the massage table equipped with information that will help you ease future discomfort at home or work or manage your ongoing stress levels. She is driven by the idea of whole-body health and wellness and is always ready to offer some tips on how to improve your physical or mental health so that you get the most out of your massage session.
Clare Srihanan
Massage Therapist
Clare is a talented and empathetic massage therapist who loves working with trigger points as a way to alleviate muscular pain. Her friendly disposition ensures you feel relaxed and rested on the massage table, and her skilled approach to massage therapy will help you identify true points of pain in your body.
Clare’s deep tissue and remedial massage skills leave her clients feeling suitably kneaded and ready to take on the world with less pain and better mobility!
If you want the worries of the world to melt away, a relaxation massage with Clare could be just the ticket. She loves incorporating a relaxing component to all of her massages including the more remedial treatments , her healing hands will rub away the tensions associated with repetitive office work, or simply the stresses of modern life.
Clare seeks out points of dysfunction within your body and then strives to remedy the grief these tight knots may be giving you. If you want to rediscover true freedom of movement, book in to see Clare today.
Peter Milne
Counsellor
Peter uses a range of counselling models in his work with clients. He loves getting to be a part of someone’s journey to better mental health, helping them feel better about themselves and their place in the world.
His training as a psychiatric nurse provides an ideal platform for his counselling practice to flourish on, and he is able to help people through a range of different issues, including depression, trauma, stress and anxiety. Men are often hesitant about reaching out to seek help, but Peter understands any feelings of apprehension and enables people to better handle the stress of everyday life.
He can set you on a journey of recovery following a traumatic or abusive event, healing any unhealthy lifestyle habits you may have adopted in order to cope. Peter is a skilled and empathetic man, who would love to help you get busy living and loving your life.
Tamara O’Dwyer
Integrative Nutritionist & Naturopath
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 Norman
Mindfulness Parenting & Wellbeing Coach
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 Clarke
Osteopath
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 Mendonca
Hypnotherapist and Life Coach
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 Kalloor
Counselling Psychologist
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 Lansdown
Counsellor
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.
Maree Burns
Counsellor
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 Bird
Kinesiologist
Angela’s bio is on its way… stay tuned