Fees - Terms of engagement

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Your investment is $110 per session* and this may be negotiable. If your income is supplemented by WINZ you may be eligible for a disability allowance, which subsidises counselling. Your WINZ case manager and your GP will be able to assist you. Please inquire via the "keep in touch" tab for any other queries or concerns, and I will be more than happy to help

 All client work is confidential. To ensure our work remains as clear and beneficial as possible I am committed to ongoing mandatory professional supervision. In this case, where client material may be referred to, client identities are safeguarded and anonymity assured. The possible exceptions to maintaining client confidentiality would arise should more harm be caused to yourself or others if confidentiality remained. In this situation I would endeavour to help you seek the services needed. In the case of unpaid fees the debt may be referred to a collection agency and no clinical material is discussed or released.

Individual sessions are fifty minutes in duration and we (client and therapist) enter a commitment to meet each other at a regular time, usually on a weekly basis. In some cases sessions might be held twice weekly, and in others fortnightly depending on the issues and other factors such as finances, affordability, availability etc. This regular appointment time is then "owned" by  you (the client).  Therefore, unless there are extenuating circumstances I am unable to keep the space for you if there are more than two missed appointments in succession. My cancellation policy requires 24 hours notice.

 I have provisional membership with New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists (NZAP) 

I abide by the code of ethics as outlined by NZAP, committed to ongoing professional development and in process of gaining full registration with the Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand (PBANZ).