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  • Contact Us
    • Do You Require Urgent Assistance?
    • Our Locations
    • Contact booking form
    • Professional Referrals
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  • Who are we
    • Our People and Places >
      • National Team >
        • Our Auckland Team
        • Our Central Team
        • Our Wellington Team
        • Our Nelson West Coast Team
        • Our Canterbury Team
        • Our Otago Team
      • Our Leadership Team
    • Vision and Mission
    • Who We Work With >
      • Rainbow Takatāpui Services >
        • What is Sexual Abuse?
        • What Questions Can I Ask A Counsellor?
        • ​Frequently Asked Questions
        • Rainbow Takatāpui: Resources
  • Having Difficulties?
    • Trauma >
      • Effects of Trauma
      • What are PTSD and CPTSD?
    • What causes Trauma? >
      • Child Abuse
      • Sexual Abuse >
        • Child Sexual Abuse
        • Have I Been Sexually Abused?
      • Male Sexual Abuse in New Zealand >
        • Facts VS. Myths
        • 17 Reasons
    • I'm dealing with >
      • Suicide
      • Intimate Partner Violence
      • Sexual Harm
  • How we can help
    • Will This Service Be Right for Me?
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    • Rainbow Services
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    • Academic Research
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  • Jo

Our Central Team

Manawatu

Jo Robertson - Psychologist
I have worked for the last 20 years to develop ways to assist people to reach their goals in all areas of their lives.

Over the last twenty three years I have developed a strategy which assists people to ensure they are performing at the peak of their performance. 

​I have been successful in both the business world and the helping professions whilst successfully raising a family to adulthood. I am motivated by my own life experiences and the need to assist others to reach their full potential.  

My training has included in a Master of Arts (Hons) (Organisational/ Industrial Psychology) and a Master of Applied Social Work. My areas of research have included workplace relationships, workplace productivity, and self-care at work.
 
During my career I have assisted people from all walks of life to affect change in their lives and to reach their goals.

I work hard to provide privacy and confidentiality for all my clients.


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Nilene Rama 
Registered Social Worker, Bachelor in Social Services, Masters of Applied Social Work and Certificate in Supervision  

I have a passion for working with clients and their whanau in the community and I love making a difference in the lives of others. I have over ten years’ experience working in mental health and addictions, family and sexual harm intervention and prevention and working alongside those who have experienced childhood trauma. I apply trauma informed practice into my work regularly and I am trained and experienced in Therapeutic Crisis Intervention and Interactive Drawing Therapy.  


Wairarapa

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Jared Renata
Jared is passionate about working with Tane in the Wairarapa who have experienced abuse and trauma, and their whanau. 

Jared combined his studies with his years of lived experience to become an invaluable asset to the Wairarapa community. 

Jared's goal is to create a service that combines the best of Te Ao Maori practice with western clinical models. 

His practice includes working with Tane who have experienced child abuse and sexual abuse, and those now struggling with suicidal thoughts and anger issues. 

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Ruapehu and Taihape

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John Wickham-Nelson
“I have worked with men from all walks of life since 2007. My aim is to assist and work with clients to process their past hurt, injustice and trauma which may be causing troubles in their interactions and relationships with others and their self. At the heart of my work is enabling men to live a more wholesome life, to heal and be freed from the shackles of trauma so they may enjoy their precious human life with digity and integrity.

​I am registered with NZAC, an accredited ACC Counsellor (Sensitive Claims), BWRT Practitioner & a Family Mediator. My counselling approach is client centred and led (Narrative) as well as engaging with Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT) and BWRT (Brainworking Recursive Therapy). I work part-time with a Whanganui Based Trauma agency and have a private practice in the Ruapehu and Taihape region”.

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