Wise Minds

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Originally from the UK, Vicki completed her clinical training at the University of East London and worked in public mental health services in London for 5 years before emigrating to New Zealand in 2006. She has worked in both adolescent and adult community mental health services in Auckland and currently has a private practice in Ponsonby.

Vicki specialises in mindfulness and compassion-based therapies, including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT). She also offers a therapeutic modality called EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprogramming), which is an evidence-based therapy that helps people to process distressing or traumatic memories and release strong emotion which may be held in the body or mind.

Vicki has a strong interest in somatic work (working with emotion held in the body) and the teachings of Buddhist psychology and Yoga. In 2013 Vicki added a yoga teaching qualification to her skill set and has come to highly value the role that yoga and meditation practices can play in balancing and harmonising our emotional wellbeing.

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