Registered psychotherapist at Three Lamps. Psychodynamic work with adults; Emotionally Focused Therapy and Gottman Method couples work, in person and online.

Angela offers longer and shorter-term psychotherapy. Her approach is psychodynamic: exploring how past experience shapes current difficulties and usual ways of coping. The work is a partnership — supportive and respectful, with an active belief in the possibility for change.

For couples she draws on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT Level 2) and Gottman Method training. She helps partners understand what makes relationships work, manage conflict and arguments more effectively, and find where they are getting stuck. There is a particular focus on de-escalating conflict through repair, and on building, repairing, and enhancing friendship and love in everyday life together.

Areas of interest include relationship difficulties, anxiety and depression, grief and loss, maternal mental health, fertility and secondary infertility — often addressed in the context of the couple relationship, where a secure attachment bond can support the grieving process. She also has a particular interest in how neurodivergence shows up in intimate relationships, and in the experiences of partners.

Before training as a psychotherapist she worked with new mothers, including those experiencing depression and anxiety around the birth of their baby, and spent two years on placement with a maternal mental health service. Non-mobile babies are welcome. Master of Psychotherapy (Honours), AUT. Registered with PBANZ. Member of APANZ, associate member of Waka Oranga, and ICEEFT.