Peace Talks Counselling
Kamryn is a Registered Counsellor with NZCCA
Kamryn’s heart for people and counselling have seen her work in varied roles both in New Zealand and overseas.
Her experience includes; managing a rehabilitation home in post-war Croatia for female drug addicts, high school counselling, providing crisis respite care for clients within Northland Base Hospital mental health services, supporting those at the end of life, Court work and working as a Victim Support counsellor in South Auckland.
Kamryn is a natural counsellor; she has the ability to get alongside young people in particularly difficult situations, she quickly builds rapport and makes a genuine connection. Kamryn uses person centered, strength based counselling under pinned with Te Whare Tapa Wha as her preferred modality.
Kamryn attended the year long Voluntary Hospital Chaplain Assistant course through Middlemore Hospital but due to covid wasn’t able to access the wards for the final component. She has completed ‘Midwifing the Dying’ course with Dr M. Barbato also.
You can still create what comes next
Peace Talks Counselling focuses on :
Advanced Care Planning directives for end of life (documenting what you want at your end of life & what this looks like)
Terminal illness support & discussions
Unexpected life changes that necessitate personal re-calibration.
Helping people find their place again after separation or the death of a loved one
Young people and their struggles 12 - 18 yrs
Support for teens & adults managing ADHD
Couples needing help to repair their relationships
Self sabotage and guilt
Kamryn’s training and lived experience have given her the ability to listen and often hear what isn’t been said, to gently facilitate conversations that enable a client to understand their reactions, to move forward, set achievable goals. To move toward effective change that brings peace and meaning to their lives.
“It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear .” Henry David Thoreau