Annette has worked in private practice as a clinical hypnotherapist from 2006 – 2011 at the Caledonian Clinic, Papanui Road, Christchurch, moving to Australia in 2011 post earthquake. She also practiced Hypnotherapy whilst in Brisbane at the Sleeman Sports Centre until 2014.

Having completed her Master’s Degree in Counselling in Brisbane, Annette returned to Christchurch in 2015, where she took up a position working for the Alcohol & Drug Association New Zealand as a brief intervention counsellor in 2015; transitioning in this role to Odyssey House, Christchurch later that year. Annette became the Clinical Coordinator for the Community Brief Intervention Alcohol & Drug Service at Christchurch Central Services for a period of 3 years until September 2020.

Since this time Annette has been working with the Christchurch City Mission Alcohol & Other Drug Service as an Alcohol and Drug Counsellor and Clinical Case Manager, concurrently working in private practice part-time for the last two years as a counsellor, hypnotherapist, clinical supervisor and providing counselling through ACC sensitive claims.

Annette is passionate about people: their resilience, their strengths,their ability to cope with and overcome extraordinary circumstances and experiences, and to create positive, fulfilling lives and relationships, and so to achieve their personal goals.

When working with you, she is interested to hear your story and how your experiences have impacted on your life; to hear about the person you are today and about your preferred future, hopes and dreams. She is interested to hear about the aspects of your life that are going well, the strategies you are already using in your life to make change or to help you cope with life events. She will support you as you develop and implement strategies, which will help you take the next step on your journey towards well-being, in a way and at a pace, that is right for you.

Approach: Her training and experience is in:

• Solution Focused Therapy

• Narrative Therapy

• Addiction & Co-existing disorders

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

• Trauma informed therapy

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

• Mindfulness

• Hypnotherapy

• Neuro Linguistic Therapy.

Masters of Counselling with distinction (Queensland University of Technology)

Post Graduate Certificate in Health Science: Addiction and Co-existing Disorders (Otago University)

Bachelor of Business Studies degree (Massey University)

Diploma of Advanced Hypnotherapy (Alpha Hypnosis, Auckland)

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner.

•Registered Alcohol & Other Drug practitioner & Accredited Clinical Supervisor - Drug & Alcohol Practitioner Association Aotearoa New Zealand (DAPAANZ)

•Australian Hypnotherapy Association (AHA) International Member - (Clinical Hypnotherapist & Accredited Clinical Supervisor)

•ACC Registered Counsellor