Sandra van Eden

MNZAC  MCouns  GradDipCouns  DipT  BA(SocSci)

Counselling . Supervision . Training

Kia ora and a warm welcome.  I am a Narrative Therapist using a number of proven innovative counselling approaches to help people cultivate resilience and find answers to life’s challenges. I have over 20 years experience, full NZAC registration and am available online or face to face in Auckland, working with adolescents, adults, couples and families. 

For appointments, please contact me on 021 456 280.

Discover and cultivate inner resilience

• Discover and cultivate inner resilience

ABOUT
ME

My journey into counselling began when I lost my first three children to miscarriage. After co-writing ‘Coping with Miscarriage' and establishing the Miscarriage Support Group with Kitch Cuthbert, I completed postgraduate qualifications in counselling at Unitec and later, a Masters in Narrative Therapy and Community Work at Melbourne University.

My specialist areas include working with adolescents, suicide prevention, emotional regulation, mind-body work, grief, family relationships, resilience and managing anxiety, depression and trauma.

In addition to this soul healing work, I enjoy working in my organic garden, bush walks, bird watching, yoga, and researching the latest, most effective counselling techniques.

For more about my background, experience and qualifications see my About Me page. For information on my services and fees please see My Services page.

How Narrative Therapy works

Narrative Therapy is a person-centered model of counselling that sees you as separate from your problems and the expert in your own life.

This stance allows you to view the difficulties you have faced from a distance, empowering you to investigate thought patterns and behaviours and the effects they have had thus far. 

It also invites you to ‘re-write’ your view of self and cultivate a future that reflects your preferred identity, investigate your chosen capacities and purposes separately from the problems that previously held you back.