The counselling therapy Denis is drawn to, respects the client's life perspectives, and offers other potentially helpful and more workable alternatives - which may have got overlooked in navigating life's journey. Aiming to broaden the range of possibilities open to people, by supporting Client Insights - that serves them to their best well-being.
Denis has extensive knowledge and skills in a number of therapeutic tools after working in Mental Health for the last 20 years from Acute Services to GP settings. He primarily includes, Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT); Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Denis has his own private practice in Wellington Central, Overthinking Therapy.
Denis recognises the devastation the suicide of a loved one can cause for whanau, friends and community. He seeks to provide a ‘sacred space’ where people can give voice to their grief and have space to process. Denis believes in the idea that ‘it’s ok not to be ok’ and healing is a lifelong process.
Denis also draws on ‘Radical Acceptance Therapy’ as a way to open up to life's difficulties as opposed to closing down to them He appreciates how brutal the mind can be, therefore, he also integrates ‘Self Compassion Therapy’ to work more with the mind, then against it.