Employment

Sara has been in private practice as a counsellor and psychotherapist since 1991.

She has also had employment as a counsellor and therapist with a residential treatment centre for addictions, Wellington Hospital Sexual Health Services, and at a Hutt Valley and Wellington Secondary School.

For many years previously, she worked as a teacher both of children and adults, and also ran a children’s bookshop for some years.

Qualifications and training

Sara trained in 1989 as a counsellor at the Heretaunga Campus of the Central Institute of Technology. She trained as a psychotherapist in 1997 at the Wellington Institute of Transactional Analysis.

• Bachelor of Arts
• Certificate in Teaching
• Certificate in Counselling
• Certified Transactional Analyst

Memberships and Registrations

• Registered Psychotherapist (PBANZ)
• Member NZ Association of Psychotherapists (MNZAP)
• Member NZ Association of Counsellors (MNZAC)
• ACC approved counsellor
• Family Court registered counsellor