Matt Collier

      Counsellor/Supervisor/EMDR Practitioner.
   

Matt moved to Aotearoa NZ from Britain in 2001, and after a long career in a different profession realised he wanted to work in a more rewarding field with
people, so started his training as a counsellor in 2005.
He's since worked as an intern in Wellington’s DHB Community Alcohol and Drug service, and Wesley’s Inner City Counselling.
From there after completing his studies he then worked as a volunteer for a PHO Pomare Primary Health in the Hutt Valley, then the New Zealand Aids Foundation (now Burnett Foundation) at the Āwhina Centre in Wellington and continued to work for Burnett as an outreach counsellor for the LGBTQ community, and later worked for New Zealand Red Cross Refugee Trauma Recovery, as well as having a private practice.
Currently Matt has a small private practice and works 3 days a week for a company working with ACC sensitive claims clients, mental health initiative clients, fire
and emergency and St Johns clients, and occasionally with military veterans.
Matt very much enjoys working with different cultures, gender identities, and sexualities, has experience in working with neurodivergent clients. Matt "enjoys the
glorious differences between us all" and celebrates the difference in the work he does with his clients".
Matt provides a safe forum for his clients to work through their challenges, and use the evidence based therapies of Client Centred Practice, CBT, Mindfulness, and EMDR as his main therapeutic tools.
For Matt it’s a privilege to accompany a fellow human being on their journey to the change and fulfilling life they wish for, and he takes his role in this with a
mindful, and compassionate focus.
Matt has a Bachelor Degree in Counselling, a post graduate Certificate in Supervision and is an Accredited EMDR practitioner, and also a full member of
both the New Zealand Counsellors Association and EMDR New Zealand.
Matt learnt mindfulness traditionally through martial arts and around 3 years of living and study in India in the mid 1990s, and has been practicing and
teaching mindfulness for 40 years.

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B.Couns

Cert. Supervision
EMDR Accredited Practitioner
M.NZAC
M.EMDRNZ

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