Our professional backgrounds
We are currently taking on mental health professionals for supervision but not clients for therapy.
Macdonald
Here are the professional backgrounds of Estelle Macdonald and her team.
Estelle Macdonald
Estelle is a Registered Clinical Psychologist and has been working in the psychology field since 1997. She has worked in public and private organisations both here in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man. Her experience includes:
- adult psychology
- child and adolescent psychology
- neuropsychology
- clinical health psychology
- specialisms: trauma and anxiety issues
- a range of therapies including Schema Therapy, EMDR and neurofeedback
- training and supervision of mental health professionals in Schema Therapy and EMDR
Estelle is:
- a Full Member, Advanced Certified Child and Adolescent Schema Therapist (CA-ST), Supervisor and Trainer of the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) (schematherapysociety.org)
- an Advanced Certified Individual (Adult) Schema Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer
- an Advanced Certified Couples Schema Therapist
- an Accredited EMDR Practitioner and Consultant in training with EMDRNZ (emdr.org.nz)
- an EMDR sandtray specialist
- registered with the New Zealand Psychologists Board (psychologistsboard.org.nz)
- a Member of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists (nzccp.co.nz)
- registered with the Health & Care Professionals Council in the UK (hcpc-uk.org)
- an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
Andrew Flint
Andrew runs the practice and looks after its information technology. He has a BSc(Hons) in Computing Science and spent most of his career working with computers and network infrastructure.