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COUNSELLING

We have services to offer individuals, couples, families and companies from one to one counselling, relationship counselling, family work and for developing a wellbeing plan for your business and your employees.

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This includes policy development, well being workshops, training champions, team building and individual sessions and interventions that improve communication throughout the organisation.

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Our Counselling services are available in Christchurch, Methven and Ashburton.

INDIVIDUAL

Individual counselling offers a confidential therapeutic space where you can exhale, feel heard, and take time to reconnect with yourself.

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Our work is trauma-informed and trust-based, honouring your pace, your story, and your nervous system. We draw from CBT, DBT, ACT, Polyvagal-informed therapy, and Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, woven together through a deeply humanistic and compassionate approach.

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Together we:

  • Create safety in the body and nervous system

  • Build practical tools for emotional regulation

  • Untangle unhelpful thought patterns with care

  • Strengthen self-trust and self-compassion

  • Move toward meaningful, values-aligned living 

Support is available for:

  • Anxiety disorders (including social and performance anxiety)

  • Depressive symptoms and loss of motivation

  • Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

  • Grief and loss

  • Relationship and communication difficulties

  • Health-related psychological stress

  • Isolation and adjustment concerns

  • Personal growth and self-development goals

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We work within a trust-based, collaborative framework, prioritising safety, consent, pacing, and empowerment at every stage.

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RELATIONSHIP & FAMILY

Supporting Relationship Health, Healing, and Growth

Relationships are a vital source of understanding, connection, and support—three of our most fundamental human needs. Nurturing these needs fosters happiness, fulfillment, and personal growth. Healthy relationships evolve through natural developmental stages, which require self-awareness and intentional effort. While some couples navigate these phases intuitively, most benefit from conscious practices, as emphasized in Relational and Imago Relationship Therapies, to build strong, stable bonds.

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Sometimes our relationship, communication, and emotional skills need strengthening to meet the evolving needs of our partnerships.

Working with an experienced counsellor in a neutral, non-judgmental environment provides a safe space to address challenges, resolve conflicts, and restore connection.

Early support is key—many couples wait until problems feel urgent, but seeking guidance sooner can prevent emotional drift and disconnect and foster growth reconnect and maintaining connection.

 

If you notice recurring patterns or unresolved difficulties, a relationship “health check” can be an invaluable step toward healing, deeper connection, and long-term relationship vitality

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EQUINE ASSISTED THERAPY

From 2024 In Touch with Horses is now running from 2 venues. Diamond Harbour and Lincoln. With Saras established herd of horses in Diamond harbour, that were part of a breeding program, breeding High Country Station horses, offering ground based experiences and in collaboration with Abis Natural Horsemanship in Lincoln and her team of liberty horses, offering ground and ridden experiences.

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Sara Scott founded an Equine Assisted Therapy service in 2004, and works with individuals families and groups. Spending time In Touch with Horses offers a calming connected experience, which when combined with Psychotherapy becomes a Therapeutic model for exploring relationship dynamics, personal development, and has a great calming impact on our Nervous System, providing great healing benefits, both mentally and physically and helps manage anxiety and supports regulation.

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In Touch with Horses currently offers Individual, Couples and Family sessions working with horses. These are popular for working on Personal development, Healing from Trauma and Relational/ family dynamic, Loss and grief, communication skills and resolving conflict.

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Spending time being In Touch with Horses gives you an opportunity to learn about yourself through the mind of a horse, which can also be a metaphor for others. Horses are honest and present in the moment, and during our fun experiences with them we are able to learn more about ourselves.

 

During the summer months further offerings include:

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  • Group experience days (Equine, Beach, Forest Meditations)

  • Womens Self Development Workshops, Purau - Sara Scott

  • Mindfulness and Meditations with Horses, Purau - Sara Scott ACC Course Level 1

  • Exploring Relationship Dynamics (Incorporating Imago Therapy)

  • Movement with Horses (Dance & Liberty with Katie Cambridge, Purau only)

  • Trauma Informed Yoga and Equine Meditations. (Purau)

  • Equine Experience Course (Liberty & Mounted) Lincoln with Abi Ricketts ACC Course Level 2 

 

Please Contact us for upcoming dates, or to book an individual session.

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Funded Individual Sessions available under ACC sensitive claims. Courses of 6 week blocks x 2 available per year. Check with your Lead Provider for further details.

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New in 2020 we will be running Mindfulness with Horses courses. Please enquire for more details.

 

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