Kathryn Ryan Counselling and Psychotherapy New Plymouth

Psychotherapy Services in New Plymouth

Individual therapy, group programmes and supervision

What psychotherapy services offer you

Emotional and psychological distress

Psychotherapy has helped many people work through distress that shows up in a wide range of ways. Sessions are available as brief solution focused work, or as short term or long term individual adult psychotherapy.

  • Anxiety and panic
  • Low mood, sadness, grief or emptiness
  • Loss, including bereavement, separation, redundancy and retirement
  • Difficulty coping with stress, or recovering from stressful events
  • Low confidence or persistent shyness
  • Strong mood swings
  • Traumatic life experience
  • Difficulty making or sustaining close relationships
  • Repeatedly ending up in unsatisfying relationships
  • Difficulty with strong emotions such as anger
  • Cross cultural adjustment, depression and bipolar disorder

Group programmes

DBT Life Skills Programme group work

DBT Life Skills Programme

A skillful behaviour teaching group built around active learning, covering mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.

Life Skills for Dissociation programme

Life Skills for Dissociation

A group for people who dissociate when feeling overwhelmed. This can include losing time, having memory problems, feeling unreal, or disconnecting from themselves and their surroundings, as though they were separate.

Supervision

For mental health professionals. Supervision draws on 30 years of clinical practice across private and community mental health settings, and is available to practitioners who want an experienced, thoughtful space to reflect on their work.

If you need help right now, free call or text 1737 any time to talk with a trained counsellor, or call Lifeline on 0800 543 354. In an emergency, call 111.