Christina (Chrissy) Gillmore

Tohutohu/Counselling

Ko Chrissy ahau / I’m Chrissy (she/her).

I provide counselling to adults at my office in Upper Hutt and online through telehealth.

I am a Member Registered with the New Zealand Association of Counsellors and a Member of EMDRNZ.

I use bicultural pluralism which posits that lots of things work for lots of different people and if you want to know what works for someone you should ask them; this is integrated with biculturalism which seeks to decolonise the counselling space by upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Grief and loss, anxiety, depression, PTSD, complex PTSD, healing, trauma (e.g., childhood sexual abuse, adverse childhood experiences), I specialise in working in a client-centred way.

I work hard to be honest and transparent in my therapy with clients.

Some of the modalities I use, which we can decide on together, include eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR; completed Basic Training Parts 1 and 2, working on Accreditation from 2025 onwards), interactive drawing therapy (IDT), acceptance commitment therapy (ACT), feminist-informed therapy, somatic therapies (e.g., body-mind psychotherapy (L1 practitioner of Body Mind Psychotherapy, polyvagal)), person-centred therapy, and Te Whare Tapa Whā. This list is not exhaustive.

In partnership with you, I may use routine outcome monitoring (e.g., feedback informed treatment) to support both of us (that you are aiming toward what you want to get out of therapy, and that I am working with your feedback and suggestions and applying them to our therapeutic mahi).

I am an ACC sensitive claims provider (Provider Number, PAP781).

Runaruna/hobbies
I whakapapa to Kānata/Canada (and then back to Hanekari/Hungary for centuries). I have called Aotearoa kainga/home for over 20 years.

Some of my hobbies include gardening (e.g., outside, inside), travelling, spending time with friends and whānau, participating in weekly Te Ataarangi at a local marae, textile arts (embroidery (Mātyo - Hanekari embroidery), weaving), photography, walking my two kurī/dogs, Rico and Reba.

Mātauranga/Education
Currently completing a part time PhD of Psychology - anticipated completion date is September 2027
He Papa Tikanga (Level 3) / Te Ataarangi (Weekly during school-terms)
Master of Counselling
Postgraduate Diploma of Education (Counselling & Guidance)
Master of Management (Marketing)
Postgraduate Certificate of Arts (Social Anthropology)
Bachelor of Arts (double major in Business Psychology & Social Anthropology)

And other certificates