Our People
Within the ACC framework, psychotherapists, counsellors and psychologists are lead treatment providers. They can also seek social work services, cultural support, professional liaison support, and services for your family members to support you.
All the support services hold you at the centre of the treatment.
Counselling
Counselling is the process of helping and supporting a person to resolve personal, social, or psychological challenges and difficulties. A counsellor helps clients to see things more clearly, possibly from a different view-point, and supports clients to focus on feelings, experiences or behaviour that will facilitate positive change (nzac.org.nz).
Psychology
Adult
Clinical psychology is concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of a wide range of psychological and general health problems affecting adults.
Child and Family
Child and family psychology places a strong emphasis on consideration of resiliencies as well as challenges, all within the context of the child's environment. It focusses on children’s mental health and emotional well-being as well as their learning. It includes areas such as parenting, adult mental health and relationships in recognition that children and adolescents do not exist in isolation but are part of a family
Psychotherapy
The practice of psychotherapy involves engaging clients in a relationship within which they examine their lives and their life contexts, so that their consciousness of themselves is enhanced as they make and maintain meaningful changes in their lives (nzap.org.nz).
Social Work
“Social work is a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people. Principles of social justice, human rights, collective responsibility and respect for diversities are central to social work. Underpinned by theories of social work, social sciences, humanities and indigenous knowledges, social work engages people and structures to address life challenges and enhance wellbeing” (IFSW).