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" We're all just walking each other home "

Ram Dass

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About Me

Kia ora.

As a therapist, I help people reflect on their life experiences, both past and present, to connect with a deeper sense of self, meaning and direction. It can often be very meaningful to have an empathic, listening, creative person to accompany you through challenging, uncertain or painful times. 

 

I work predominantly with young adults aged between 18 and through 30’s.

 

In our increasingly complex world, we often need new ways to draw close to each other and find community, connection and support. Therapy can help us better understand the specific ways we move in our relational world, and how some patterns of relating may hold us back from the kind of connection and wellbeing we hope for. Through therapy we may also come to better understand how the world we have encountered has been impacting our life quality. Through understanding we can move toward self-compassion and creativity.

 

I am predominantly trained as a relational psychotherapist, but I draw on many theories and wellbeing practices I have picked up throughout my life. I have travelled extensively and am hopeful about the possibilities a human life can hold. 

 

I strive to be a compassionate, poetic, curious and fairly pragmatic person, but I also understand that some life experiences leave us lost and desolate. At times, we just need a witness so that we may not be alone in that place.

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Qualifications

PBANZ Registered Psychotherapist
Master of Psychotherapy (First Class Honours)
Graduate Diploma of Psychotherapy Studies
Diploma of Counselling

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Areas of Interest & Experience
Calm, low sensory therapist office
  • Young adulthood (18 – mid 30's)

  • Life direction, choices

  • Relationships, attachment

  • Anxiety, panic

  • Childhood, family experiences

  • Identity, self-esteem

  • Highly Sensitive People

  • Neurodiversity

  • Depression, low mood

  • Culture, society

  • Grief, traumatic events

  • Overwhelm, feeling “lost”

  • Sexuality, sex, gender

  • Spirituality, existence

Appointments

Fees:

Sessions are $160.00 for 50-minutes

You may qualify for WINZ Counselling funding if you are on a low-income​​

I do not provide ACC Sensitive Claims Therapy

Times & Frequency:​

We would normally meet weekly or fortnightly on a regular basis

I work business hours Mon-Fri, with a few evening sessions

Contact me:

Feel free to email me to organise an initial appointment:

 

annarileytherapy@outlook.co.nz

I can provide a brief phone consult prior to meeting if that feels helpful, just ask for this when you contact me.

My office is located at 157 Jervois Rd, Herne Bay

" The salvation of man is through love "​

Viktor Frankl

© 2026 by Anna Riley.
Photography by Joshua McCormack.
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