It is with much sadness I am confirming I am no longer working as a counsellor.
The accident has resulted in multiple complications and I am struggling to recover from my injuries.
I am not sure what the future holds for me.
It will not include a return to counselling, those of you who were my clients in recent years would have known is my goal to stop counselling when I turned 70.
That milestone has been recently passed.

Please look after yourselves - I hope to soon post a list of alternative options for people in Whanganui a Tara.

Go well life is fragile and precious
​Ngā mihi nui
Mani

Kia ora everyone
I apologise for my lack of words last year.
Like many people I found it difficult.
COVID
Health issues
to name two things
I am taking all of January off working in the office.
Look forward to returning to work in February
please contact me
​Ngā mihi nui 
​Mani

Ngā mihi nui Kia ora everyone
This year, as I imagine it has for many people has been complex.
Some of you have contacted me...
I need to do an update.
I only do counselling work one day a week... (some weeks if I am travelling none)
I am at our place where I can not take on any new people..
I know how distressing that might be for some..
There are not lots of options
but one to remember
is Outline - a web based service thats located Tamiki (Auckland) but available to any one.
That have counsellors who are trans...
please consider giving them a call Call us on 0800 688 5463We’re here every evening, 6pm-9pm! and or an email https://outline.org.nz/ 
make sure your clear about what kind of support your looking for.
Finally all the best with your journey.
It can be hard.
But finding the place to be yourself...
To be supported.. to be part of a community
is your birthright...
​Ngā mihi nui 
Mani

Its been a strange and challenging year.
It has found me working from home for a great deal of the time.
I have returned to the office very part time.
If you have contacted me during this time and
I have not returned your email apology.
Please feel free to contact me again.
This year has been hard for many reasons
Its not unusual to be feeling
stressed and anxious.

thanks for visiting.

 

Apology everyone this website has been down - COVID 19 - Not a good time to be off air! I am back - contacts welcome. 

Thank you for visiting!!
If you tried to 'find me recently' I was off air!
Apology, there was a problem with the host organization.
The New Zealand - Aotearoa long summer continues... we have had some amazing weather this year.
I hope you have been able to rest, do what you needed to do over the long weekend.
Next week I am off to Australia.
For the lgbti Health Alliance Conference...
looking forward to catching up with colleagues and friends...
Hei konā mai
Mani

its a long time since I posted here...
I lost my log in details
So thank you Bo for helping me get back here!!

2017 was a hard year...
a complex year
a year with lots of loss..

So I have had a break
taken some time
to reflect, make sense
be

and I am once again back at work
and looking forward to catching up.

Thank you for visiting the page.
Warmest regards
Mani

I have not been on my web site much this year. One I misplaced my password, two I have been working on a new training project.
And the third is needing to deal with a health issue.

Its given me new respect and understanding around our complicated relationship with stress and historic trauma.


There are many ways that trauma and stress manifest in our bodies and health - living with it myself has as I have said given me powerful new knowledge and understandings.


I want to reassure everyone I am fine.
My health is improving.
I am enjoying work.