Therapy Services
PLEASE NOTE:
Megan will be available via ZOOM sessions only until the end of June 2025
Current Fee: $250 (inc. GST) for 55 minute session
Funding Subsidies:
Some insurance policies cover clinical psychology.
Please check your policy or contact your insurer.
Appointments must be cancelled 24 hours in advance. Appointments cancelled within less than 24 hours will be charged at 50% of the appointment fee. Where clients do not turn up for confirmed appointments the full appointment fee will be charged.
Parent-Child Therapy: Children under 14 years
Initial session is with parents only. Subsequent appointments will include a combination of parents only, child only, and child-parent sessions.
Areas I can help with:
• Parenting support and psychoeducation
• Parent-child relationship support
• Family therapy
• Behavioural challenges
• Managing emotions
• Mental health issues (i.e. anxiety, depression)
• Grief, loss and trauma
Adolescent Therapy: 14 years – 18 years
Initial session is with parents only. Subsequent appointments will include a combination of individual therapy with young person, and additional sessions with parents only, or adolescent-parent, as required.
Areas I can help with:
• Parenting support and psychoeducation
• Parent-teen relationship support
• Family therapy
• Individual therapy for adolescents
• Behavioural challenges
• Managing emotions
• Mental health issues (i.e. anxiety, depression)
• Grief, loss and trauma
Individual Therapy : Young adults 19-25 years
Individual therapy focuses on clients goals i.e. improvement in mood, behaviour, wellbeing or relationships or other issues.
Areas I can assist with:
• Behavioural difficulties
• Mood difficulties
• Stress and anxiety management
• Relationship challenges
• Grief, loss and trauma
• Transition to adulthood
Therapy for Parents
Sessions with one, or both parents, provide an opportunity for you to pause and reflect on important issues that impact your parenting role, and ways to positively influence your parenting effectiveness.
These might include:
• your own family history and experiences as a child
• differences in parenting approach between you and your partner
• issues related to co-parenting and divorce
• behaviours that will improve your relationship with your child
• ways to increase your psychological well-being, and manage stress
• how to regulate your emotions
Megan is also available for professional consultation and supervision services.
My Professional Experience
I am a Clinical Psychologist (MA Hons, PGDipClinPsych) who has 25 years’ experience in working with children, adolescents, young adults and their parents.
I am registered with the New Zealand Psychologists Board, holding both the Clinical, and Neuropsychology, scopes of practice. I am a full member of the New Zealand Psychological Society, (NZPsS), and am a member of the Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment (ASSBI), the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), and the American Psychological Society (APA).
As a specialist child and adolescent psychologist, I work with those experiencing a wide range of emotional, behavioural and developmental difficulties. My experience also extends to working with parents and families. I am also a specialist paediatric neuropsychologist with expertise in working with clients who have acquired brain injuries, neurological or neurodevelopmental disorders, or cognitive and learning difficulties.
I have worked in my private practice since 2005 and also have experience working in the public sector in the areas of child and adolescent mental health, maternal mental health, health and disability, and in community based rehabilitation services.
Therapy Approach
I provide an approach to working with families that is based on the latest neuroscience research on the way a child’s brain develops, it’s capabilities and difficulties at various ages, and ways of strengthening attachments and relationships. This is not a behavioural management approach but one that provides a different way of understanding and addressing children’s emotional and behavioural challenges.
Through this approach parents can learn how neuroscience and a strong parent-child connection can be used in ways that will reduce their child’s challenging behaviour, promote their healthy development and help them achieve their full potential.
I apply this model to children and families with a range of psychological and/or behavioural problems.
“If you want to improve the world, start by making people feel safer”
– Stephen Porges