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Rob McGregor - Co-Director
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After two and half decades of working in my own para-medical clinic managing complex injuries to the lower limb, I lost that career to personal injury.
It resulted in a few years walking a personal wilderness, trying to figure out what life was and why I should be here. It also became a time of processing some abuse events I experienced as a child and young person; did that really happen? What do I call that? What does the Law call that? And the questions went on and on... Now I have names for all that stuff and the accurate interpretations. |
Now I know how to park those ideas and experiences, and it has freed me enormously to engage in life in a much more meaningful manner.
My counselling experience started with refugees from Vietnam (1988), followed by a short period with St Stephan's Society in Hong Kong working with drug addicts and Triad members (1988). While running my medical practice, I also took roles in community-based counselling and counsellor training with Elijah House (2007-2010), and co-facilitated training programmes with Jubilee Resources nationally and in the Caribbean (2010-2015).
I am now a qualified counsellor and utilise a client-centered approach informed by ISTDP (Intense Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy), Narrative, CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), Short-term Solution-Focused, and Somatic/Bioenergetic modalities to build clients' healthy strengths and grow new strengths.
Clients have ranged in ages, ethnicities, orientations and genders. Most of my work is with males, with a special interest in addressing issues of trauma, sexual abuse, suicide and grief.
I also work with women with addictions and domestic violence backgrounds, and with couples.
Until recently, my counselling has been split between private practice and working with MOSAIC since 2017 in one-to-one counselling, peer support and group work with survivors of historic sexual abuse, and in the last 2 years also as a services manager, programme developer and trainer.
My counselling experience started with refugees from Vietnam (1988), followed by a short period with St Stephan's Society in Hong Kong working with drug addicts and Triad members (1988). While running my medical practice, I also took roles in community-based counselling and counsellor training with Elijah House (2007-2010), and co-facilitated training programmes with Jubilee Resources nationally and in the Caribbean (2010-2015).
I am now a qualified counsellor and utilise a client-centered approach informed by ISTDP (Intense Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy), Narrative, CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), Short-term Solution-Focused, and Somatic/Bioenergetic modalities to build clients' healthy strengths and grow new strengths.
Clients have ranged in ages, ethnicities, orientations and genders. Most of my work is with males, with a special interest in addressing issues of trauma, sexual abuse, suicide and grief.
I also work with women with addictions and domestic violence backgrounds, and with couples.
Until recently, my counselling has been split between private practice and working with MOSAIC since 2017 in one-to-one counselling, peer support and group work with survivors of historic sexual abuse, and in the last 2 years also as a services manager, programme developer and trainer.
Subsequently, for the many clients I have led through the evolving programme over the last 4 years.
Randall McDonnell - Co-Director
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A trauma survivor myself, I graduated with a BSc in geology from VUW in 1990.
I have worked in a number of industries including an oil rig, marketing in legal publishing, an IT administrator, airline baggage handler, pine forestry worker, lab technician, and currently a marketing analyst. I bring a range of skills that require innovation, problem-solving ability and creativity. It is an honour to be asked to join the Board of Directors for Men and Trauma as the professionalism, dedication and resolve of the team leading and delivering these much-needed services impresses me. |
I am ready to do what I can to help support this innovative service and contribute to not just changing individual men's lives, but to start challenging the societal and structural foundations that hold men back from resolving the trauma they have suffered.
Richard Jeffrey - Co-Director
In helping to form Men and Trauma, I wanted to be part of a niche and national clinical service dedicated to masculine people, their families and whanau who live with unresolved trauma.
I follow the thought that unresolved anger, addictions, depression and suicidal behaviour are a direct result of child abuse and sexual abuse.
My previous experience in trauma work was as founder of male sexual abuse charity Mosaic, from 2014 until its closure in 2021.
Earlier, I started attending peer support in Christchurch in 1993 and became a founding trustee for the Male Survivors Sexual Abuse Trust Christchurch in 1997.
I follow the thought that unresolved anger, addictions, depression and suicidal behaviour are a direct result of child abuse and sexual abuse.
My previous experience in trauma work was as founder of male sexual abuse charity Mosaic, from 2014 until its closure in 2021.
Earlier, I started attending peer support in Christchurch in 1993 and became a founding trustee for the Male Survivors Sexual Abuse Trust Christchurch in 1997.
In 2018 I studied trauma informed Peer Therapy Groups at Men and Healing in Ottawa, Canada, and then brought back their world-leading trauma recovery model to New Zealand to complement our own.
I have worked extensively for a number of years facilitating 1-on-1 and group sessions with male survivors of childhood abuse, sexual abuse and trauma. I have also provided professional development for New Zealand clinicians and healthcare providers to understand implicit issues around male trauma and recovery, and delivered lectures in tertiary organisations.
I have worked extensively for a number of years facilitating 1-on-1 and group sessions with male survivors of childhood abuse, sexual abuse and trauma. I have also provided professional development for New Zealand clinicians and healthcare providers to understand implicit issues around male trauma and recovery, and delivered lectures in tertiary organisations.
