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Teaching Area/Interests
My major teaching area is counsellor education, including cross-cultural issues, professional ethics, counselling supervision, and counselling, guidance and pastoral care in schools. Related areas of interest include contemporary theories and research in loss and grief, and suicide prevention, intervention and bereavement.
Research Interests (area & methodologies)
My research interests include loss and grief, particularly suicide bereavement; complex cultural heritages, including the experiences of Pasifika people who are Afakasi; culture and mental health; and areas associated with counselling practice and counsellor education, including professional ethics and supervision.
Methodologies are primarily qualitative, but also include quantitative in mixed method designs.
Professional Links
Professional memberships: NZ Association of Counsellors; American Counseling Association; National Association for Loss and Grief (NZ); Association for Death Education and Counseling; American Association of Suicidology; NZARE. Member (by invitation) of the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement. Committees: NZAC Ethics Committee; NALAG (Auckland) Committee; NZAC (Auckland) Professional Development Committee; Manukau Institute of Technology Diploma in Counselling Advisory Committee.
University Committees served on
Faculty of Education Postgraduate Programmes Board; formerly member of Contact Network and mentor for Women in Leadership Programme
Qualifications / Degrees
- BA - University of Auckland
- MA - University of Auckland
- PhD - University of Auckland
- DipGuid & Couns - University of Auckland
- Dip Tchg - Auckland Secondary Teachers College
Previous professional experience (prior to present position)
- Teacher, Auckland Girls' Grammar School
- Counsellor and HoD Guidance, Aorere College
- Private counselling practice
- Counsellor, Manukau Polytechnic
Other information, interests or things that drive you
In collaboration with staff of Netsafe and Safe, since 2003 I have been involved in the development and facilitation of professional development workshops for counsellors and other helping professionals on emerging relational and safety issues associated with cybertechnology.
