My name is Anna, and my whakapapa connects me to Te Tai Tokerau, Te Urewera and England.
I am a cisgender wahine and my pronouns are she/her/ia.

I am a registered psychotherapist and completed by psychotherapy training in Tāmaki Makaurau at AUT.  I have been registered since 2015, and have worked in tertiary health care settings, NGOs, government organisations since then, as well as operating my own private practice.

In 2025, I co-founded Awatea Psychotherapy and Counselling, a therapy and counselling service based on Kaupapa Māori principles of health care.  Our practitioners at Awatea are all intentional about integrating indigenous knowledge into their clinical mahi.

My belief is that Te Ao Māori and psychotherapy share similar kaupapa and values, particularly around the idea of relationship being fundamental to healing.  I have spent much of my career bringing indigenous ideas of healing to the forefront of psychotherapy practice here in Aotearoa, with the aim of making psychotherapy more accessible to larger groups of people.  My hope is that assisting people to make greater connections with themselves and their personal experiences will allow their connections to the world around them to become stronger too.