Ko Mt Baker te māunga

Ko Fraser te awa

Ko Aotearoa, Ko Kānata, Ko Hanekari ngā iwi

Ko Colin Ming te matua

Ko Lily Tarbaj te whaea

Ko Chrissy Gillmore tōkū ingoa

Tohutohu/Counselling

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

I provide counselling to adults.

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). I also contract with Victims Support as a counsellor.

Runaruna/hobbies

As you can tell by the images on this website, 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

This probably belongs under hobbies…

  • 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

Make these next steps count. Kia kaha!