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Angelika -New Start Programme Facilitator

Angelika migrated from Germany in 1983. She is a counsellor, trained in many modalities including psychodrama. She is the co-leader of our New Start programme for migrant and refugee women. She also enjoys using a wide range of other creative ways such as use of colour, song and dance as well as psychodrama, to work with the women in the programme. She is a member of NZAC and works in private practice providing professional supervision, group therapy, team building and individual counselling.

Anya - Children's Counsellor

Anya is a specialist children’s counsellor at Home and Family. Anya has a Diploma in Psychosynthesis and a Post Graduate qualification in Expressive Therapy from AUT and has been a member of NZAC since 1993. She is committed to the expressive counselling process as a way of creating richer communication in families and to give children ways of coping in their lives and growing in self esteem. Her style of using art and play therapies together with more structured skill based counselling provides a steady environment for children. Anya works gently with both children and their families, creating a safe environment to promote learning and change.

Availability: Wednesday and Friday

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Joanna - Women's Refuge Counsellor.

Joanna Kingsbury has worked for Home and Family in women's refuge since 1998. Originally a nurse, Joanna later retrained in counselling, starting out as a LIfeline counsellor and trainer before enrolling in the counsellor education programme at Auckland University. Joanna graduated with her Masters degree in Education (counselling) with honours in 1999. She has been an active member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors since 1999.

Women who come to refuge often have physical as well as emotional injuries, and many bring children traumatised through witnessing violence. With support, women can break out of the cycle of violence and rebuild their lives, and Home and Family provides this by offering free counselling to women in refuge and follow up sessions after women move out.

In addition to her work for Home and Family, Joanna is in private practice as a counsellor and supervisor.

Estelle - New Start Programme Facilitator

Estelle is a psychologist and psychodramatist whose work with Home and Family involves leading a group for women refugees and immigrants focusing on trauma healing and other issues using action methods, as well as others.

Over several decades, Estelle has developed a focus on working with trauma. She was one of the original counsellors with the Sexual Abuse Help Foundation and still works in private practice with survivors of abuse; female and male. She also does groupwork with a co-leader and a team, subsidised by the Accident Compensation Corporation.

Working with trauma also involves experiencing transformation, and this side of her work she finds deeply satisfying. It is also reflected in her love of many creative forms of expression including sand-tray work, clay, body casting, music and environment. Estelle was married for many years and is mother to three adult children and grandmother to five. She has been in a committed lesbian relationship for some time.