Our Team
Get to Know the Anxiety NZ Team
Please let us know if you have a preference for seeing a specific therapist. Kindly note that our clinical team works on different days and hours, with varying availability and potential waiting lists. We can provide information on the current or first available clinicians via email. A match will be confirmed once we receive a new referral and schedule an initial call with our Triage Lead.
Clinical Team
Dr Henry Plant, MBChB
Specialist GP
Dr Plant has been in the field of psychiatry for twenty years and takes a hol...
Stephanie Pemberton
Registered Counselling Psychologist & Community Educator
Stephanie is passionate about furthering research into anxiety, as well as as...
Jay Kumar
Registered Counselling Psychologist
My speciality areas are anxiety, low mood, phobias, social anxiety and interp...
James Evans-McLeod
Registered Psychologist
“Helping young people and their whānau understand and work through anxiety...
Lyn Birrell
Registered Psychologist
Lyn has worked in the mental health field for several years, including tertia...
Roger Phillipson
Registered Psychologist
Roger uses a range of modalities, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)...
Vikki Baird
Registered Counselling Psychologist
Vikki specialises in the areas of anxiety, depression, self-esteem, relations...
Stephen Schaapveld
Registered Psychologist
Stephen works in a collaborative goal-focused manner utilising a variety of t...
Tali Budlender
Registered Psychologist
Tali is passionate about helping clients to build a personal toolkit to bette...
Tania Nilsen
Intern Counsellor
Tania is passionate about community mental health and in her work aims to bui...
Jessica Popham
Training Psychotherapist
Jessica is a Psychotherapy student completing her Master’s degree in Psycho...
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Goldie Hamilton
Registered Psychologist
About Goldie
Alice Tither
Registered Counselling Psychologist
About Alice
Mio Yang
Student Counsellor
Mio was granted a Graduate Diploma in Psychology from Victoria University of ...
Jodie
Registered Intern Psychologist
Jodie is a registered intern psychologist with the New Zealand Psychologists ...
Tracy Dedman
Student Counsellor
About Tracy
Dharshana (Dharshi) Ponnampalam
Student Counsellor
About Dharshi
Board
Professor Robert Kydd
Chairperson
Emeritus Professor Robert Kydd has been with the Trust since 2007 supporting ...
Michelle Proudfoot
Trustee
Michelle brings with her over 20 years of experience in banking, finance, bus...
Alfred Stowers
Trustee
Alfred brings a combination of business experience and love of health and fit...
Mike Richardson
Trustee
Mike brings a wealth of HR, people leadership and development experience to o...
Spike Xie
Trustee
Spike brings with him a passion for philanthropic work which is fulfilled thr...
Community Engagement
Mary Dawson PhD MNZM CF
Funding Officer
Mary has great wealth of knowledge of the community sector's strengths and ch...
Melissa Reynolds
Programme Manager
Melissa manages projects that help improve our organisation's funding, commun...
Leslie Scott
Comms & Community Education Specialist
Leslie looks after the communications, social media, newsletters, and helps c...
