We value building a safe space for meaningful connections and therapy goals to grow. We respect and upholding the shared Māori and Indigenous knowing that people and children are ‘born capable’.

Like many cultures across the Pacific Rim, we value the importance of storytelling and your lived knowledge and experiences. Often times our intervention includes building new stories with language skills and emotional vocabulary or building stories from real experiences and making meaning of these through language and visual communication tools.

Research tells us this is a rich approach to therapy that meets a variety of social communication, mental health, literacy, and language-based goals.

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A wee bit more . . .

Kia ora! I’m Nicole. I hold a Bachelors in Media Communications from Simon Fraser University (Canada) and a Masters in Speech-Language Pathology from University of Canterbury (NZ).

My practice follows evidence-based approaches to care, built on pillars of additional training that includes trauma-informed care, togetherness and teamwork (mahi tahi), and multisensory learning.

My current PhD studies are on autistic language and pre-adolescent mental health.

Planning & organization of information

Personal event narrative language & reminiscent style strategies

Perspective-taking, emotional vocabulary, & problem-solving through narrative/story work

Regulation‍, voice and self-monitoring for communication readiness

Communication & comprehension following significant injury or events (including word-finding)

Neurodivergent preferences, flexibility & social communication

Certified Structured literacy intervention

Childhood apraxia of speech

Collaborative assessment, such as FASD or AS

PD services in school settings or for hire based on specialization topics

1. First, we receive your Connect Form
   

2. We connect by email, phone
   and book our first session together
   

3. First Session
   This is a time of kōrero, hearing your experiences, voice, and communication concerns. We identify meaningful goals and choices together, then take steps towards what that looks like. This could be assessment and/or therapy.
   
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   Setting & Space
   Sessions usually take place at our clinic, in shared Psychologist or counsellor session, or your child’s kura/school.
   
   Session Duration
   -Initial session: 50mins
   -Following Sessions: 30 or 50 mins
   -Structured Literacy: 45 mins
   
   Professional Development
   Available to schools, individual professionals, and organizations
   
   We often support specialists with coaching, supervision, or team-based professional development across the key areas of our mahi. This includes structured literacy for older students, neurodivergent-affirming approaches to learning, and other team-based needs.