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While adults talk in therapy, children communicate through play and activity. Experienced in a range of leading therapies, my style takes into account the child’s developmental stage and fosters a relationship of empathy and trust.

Identify
Strengths

Grow
Self confidence

Increase
Awareness of thinking and emotions

Learn
Creative and effective skills for managing tough times

Build
Resilience

I provide counselling for children experiencing difficulties with
anxiety
loss and grief
parental separation/divorce
anger
self esteem
chronic illness/pain

Counselling is about getting yourself the life you love. You will learn to view the issue in a whole new way and shift your focus towards creative new solutions for positive change.

Experienced in a range of leading therapies and influenced by research into the neuroscience of the brain’s ability to change itself by the way we think, my style brings into awareness the key issues and equips you with the skills to create the life you want.

Learn
How your unique temperament influences your thoughts, feelings, behaviours and relationships

Identify
The key issue that is keeping you stuck

Gain
Insight into how and why this occurred

Determine
What you want

Equip yourself
With a plan and skills to achieve your goal

Leasa Watson, Dip. Nursing, B. Counselling, MNZCCA

With over 14 years in the counselling field and based in the seaside suburb of Sumner, Christchurch, my passion is to see people thriving and living a life they love.

I believe that we all have it within us to live full and abundant lives.

My counselling style

Tailor made
To suit your unique personality and needs

Equips
You with the skills to deal with life’s challenges in a way that is empathetic, practical and positive

Enables
You to clarify what it is that you want and to set goals to get there

Strengthens
And equips you to approach life’s tough times with courage and a can-do attitude

Identifies
Your strengths and resources that you can utilise as a source of power for positive change

Resources
You with tools that you will be able to use many times over in other aspects of your life

Fosters
A deeper understanding of your unique self and why you think, feel and act the way you do

Enables
Deeper insight into why your relationships function the way they do

I provide individual counselling for
Adults, children and adolescents

anxiety
depression
loss and grief
trauma
sexual abuse/assault (ACC Registered for Sensitive Claims)
self esteem
managing anger and other emotions
stress
chronic illness/pain
temperament assessments