Napier Counselling Services
Napier Counselling offers effective
assistance for individuals, couples, families and employees
wanting to improve addictions, past trauma,
physical
health, mental health, stress
management, peak performance, relationships. You can
quickly gain relief from obsessive worrying thoughts, memories of
traumatic events, phobias, social anxiety, depression, excessive
grief from loss of a loved one, guilt. You can use your physical
symptoms to discover how to enhance your life. You can learn the
relaxation response and use your visualisation skills to transform
you habits, deal with stress, and enrich your life. Relationships
with children, partners, work colleagues can be enhanced. You
can be given feedback about what positive changes you have
made.
This journey is exciting and
exacting, and there will be times when you will be challenged out
of your comfort zone, however by learning physical and mental
relaxation, you may be surprised how well you cope with this.
Contact
me.
My name is Fran
Lowe and I am a registered psychologist with a particular
interest in both biofeedback and hypnosis and I have additional
qualifications in these areas and others.
I have considerable experience in walking alongside those with
addictions, depression, anxiety, relationship problems, personality
issues and other issues that arise from impaired mental health and
childhood or adult trauma and abuse.
I would like to share with you some feedback from clients, with
their permission:
"Thank you for your help. I don't think words can really
describe how thankful I am." Alexis
D
"You are an asset to the community." Judy B
"Thank you for everything you have done for me in the last
six months. I don't know where ai would be today or what
state I'd be in without having had your help. I will be
forever grateful." Emma
T
"Thank you for all that you have done for me. You have
taught me how to find myself. You are an amazing lady
and special." Vicky R
"The service was incredible. Thank you, Fran, the
progress I feel now is wonderful. I am to continue with my
new Life." residential addiction
client
I m looking forward to making your acquaintance so that you can
work with guidance toward a happier and more fulfilling way of
being.
I am ACC regestered for pain and for mental injury from
physical injury and sexual abuse. I am also a provider of EAp
servics for Instep. I provide counselling via the public
health organisation's mental health initiative, and financial
assistance can be obtained via WINZ if you qualify.
PLEASE NOTE: I am able to do remote sessions via Skype, so
distance is not a barrier to effective treatment.
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