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Counsellor & mental health advocate. Supporting peace of mind & personal growth🌱🏳️‍🌈 Talk about what matters to you in a safe space.

Online & In person Ōrewa, New Zealand

30/10/2025

Choose who you share matters of the heart with wisely. ✨

02/08/2025

What do you need? This question can be challenging! Often we can feel out of sync with our bodies, stuck in our thoughts, patterns, or our daily routine, lacking clarity or the opportunity to explore what our actual needs are. Counselling can help to refocus and prioritize what is needed in the present. Often small changes can lead to a sense of increased balance and restored health. Make time for yourself today ✨👏

💮Wellbeing is viewed through a holistic lens and includes our internal and external worlds

💮Health encompasses various aspects of the physical/emotional/cognitive/relational/spiritual and environmental

💮Together we can explore different strategies and changes

💮Move beyond the capitalist 'Buy this thing $$' approach to health by exploring what is going on beneath the surface, setting small goals and taking steps towards these

11/07/2025

A Friday reminder ✨I hope you find time to rest this weekend. Whether it is ten minutes to close your eyes and sit in silence, a deep sleep, or an active form of rest doing something you love. Set aside the to-do list. Quiet the mind. Rest.

09/05/2025

Hi everyone, thank you for following this page. 🌿 I'm Shana, I provide in-person counselling sessions in Ōrewa, Auckland and I also offer online appointments. Limited sessions are available, please get in touch if I can be of assistance. Ngā manaakitanga, Shana 👏

07/04/2025

Check out this amazing MRI scan of a neuroscientist and her two month old baby. 📸 reposted

Did you know that by creating a bond and building secure attachment with your infant, you are literally setting their brain up for success later in life?! You are helping them to regulate their nervous system through a process called co-regulation and creating essential pathways and wiring which are the foundation for everything! ….Amazing 🤩 For now I will be doing just that with my littlest love. Soon I will be opening up a limited number of session spaces, as I slowly return to The Practice in May. Updates to come 🫶🏽

10/02/2025

3 to Be, a brief and simple mindfulness practice. 🌿You can do this exercise anywhere and at anytime. Even small moments of self reflection can help to feel more grounded.

🌱3 deep breaths in, and a slow release out

🌱Reflect on what you are feeling and thinking in this moment

🌱Be curious and gentle

04/12/2024

Hi everyone, I will be on maternity leave until May 2025 to spend time with our baby girl. She arrived safely and we are enjoying this special time. I will be posting as I have time and will be updating this page when I am able to accept referrals. I wish you well as the year winds down. 🌿

23/10/2024

When life brings challenges your way, remember you are capable of managing what lies ahead.⭐

06/09/2024

**Trigger warning** ⚠️ ‘Why don’t you just leave?’ is a question often asked of survivors of domestic abuse. It is unfair and suggests a simple decision, as opposed to a complex and layered one with many implications. We seek out relationships because of a very human need for connection and belonging. Elements of power, control, coercion and isolation can happen over time, making it difficult to leave. Societal and social structures (biased court systems, the patriarchy, beliefs about gender roles) contribute.

Some statistics: 1 in 3 women have experienced violence at the hands of a partner or significant other. People of all genders can also experience abuse, however gender-based violence means that women (and marginalized communities) are disproportionately impacted. 75% of deaths in intimate relationships are perpetrated by men, and an estimated 38% of female homicides globally are committed by male partners. Many acts of abuse are not reported to police. The safety and wellbeing of children is significantly impacted when exposed to incidents of harm. DV impacts are generational. We need to help create safer homes and communities.

➡️. The Power & Control Wheel (DAIP, 2017) outlines behaviours and patterns of abuse/violence.

➡️ Identifying abusive behaviour can be a powerful step to safety and getting support.

➡️ The Equality Wheel (DAIP, 2017) outlines relationship dynamics which lead to equal and equitable relationships.

➡️ If you or someone you know are unsafe or experiencing abuse the following information may be helpful. In NZ Call 111 for emergency.

💻 https://www.areyouok.org.nz/

💻 https://www.police.govt.nz/advice/family-violence/help

📞 Women’s Refuge 0800 733 833

📞 Shine 0508 744 633

💻 https://whiteribbon.org.nz/

References:

Domestic Abuse Intervention Program-The Duluth Model (2017)

World Health Organization (March 2024)

13/08/2024

I am so grateful for all of the interest, support, trust and connection throughout this year. I am humbled by the experience and cannot wait to continue this path. Thank you for choosing to share these parts of your life with me. Your tears. Your laughter. Your heart. Talking really does help. I hope you found moments of light in the process. Me te aroha, me te mihi 👏

29/05/2024

There is a vast difference between apathy/ burying your head in the sand and being aware of your personal capacity and mental health needs. Some steps you can take to both be informed and to protect your wellbeing include:

🧠 Educating yourself about global events and learning about privilege and colonialism.

🧠 Using critical thinking to ask tough questions, such as who benefits? Which political parties do/don’t align with your values? Having conversations with those you care about.

🧠 Noticing how you feel when seeing images of genocide, destruction of the planet and horrible events going on; connecting with our collective humanity is essential.

🧠 Notice when you might be consuming an unhealthy amount of media and how might you know when you are reaching this point?

🧠 Allowing yourself time to reflect

🧠 Allowing yourself to feel all the emotions (grief, outrage, guilt, helplessness) which may come up. Seek support if needed

🧠 Do what you can to look after yourself and to help in ways that feel meaningful to you

🧠 it’s OK to set boundaries, take breaks, and unfollow or mute social media channels, and the news. Give yourself permission to disconnect.

28/04/2024

“grief isn’t only” Repost by

This poem so beautifully captures the many types of loss we may face at any given time. ✨ Grief is a natural part of living and yet so often goes unspoken. Be gentle with yourself as you go through the process.

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