Counselling
Services.

Guiding you toward wellbeing, one step at a time.

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At Weave Hawkeโ€™s Bay, our counselling services provide a safe, welcoming space for individuals, couples, children, and whฤnau to find support and navigate lifeโ€™s challenges.

Guided by our founding statement, Te Awhina, Te Aroha (To Help is to Love), our professional counsellors help empower people to weave their own paths toward wellbeing.

We offer services across Hawkeโ€™s Bay, including Napier, Hastings, Central Hawkeโ€™s Bay, and Wairoa. Whether youโ€™re facing grief, trauma, relationship challenges, or need support for tamariki, our team is here to help.

How to Access Support

Getting started is simple. Complete our online enquiry form, and weโ€™ll connect you with the counsellor best suited to your needs. If you need help with the form, give us a call on 06 843 7280 or 0508 678 910.

Our services are available Monday to Friday, 8:30 amโ€“4:30 pm. For support outside these hours, freephone or text the National Telehealth Service on 1737.

Our Approach

We pride ourselves on offering professional and confidential counselling services that are easy to access, without the need for referrals. At Weave, clients are met with compassion and aroha, often experiencing judgement-free support for the first time in their lives.

What we can help with

Our experienced, qualified counsellors support people through a wide range of challenges, including:

  • Grief and trauma
  • Depression and anxiety
  • Postnatal depression
  • Parenting struggles
  • Relationship and separation issues
  • Stress and anger management
  • Child custody and care challenges
  • Sexual violence support
  • Teen and tamariki issues
  • Cyclone recovery

If thereโ€™s something on your mind, reach out. Our team is here to help you and your whฤnau through lifeโ€™s journey.

Special support for Cyclone recovery

The impact of Cyclone Gabrielle has left many in our community needing extra support. Weave Hawkeโ€™s Bay offers free counselling to those affected by recent weather events. Recovery is a journey, and weโ€™re here to walk alongside you every step of the way. Learn more

Meet the Counsellors at
Weave Hawke’s Bay.

Our counselling team are qualified and registered professionals. Each counsellor brings unique skills and expertise to our mahi, ensuring the best possible support for whฤnau and our community.

Jason Follett

Counselling Team Lead

Bachelor of Counselling
Registered Member of NZAC

Jasonโ€™s experience largely centres around working with families and their needs. His approach is to journey with clients as they explore their own solutions. He works kanohi ki te kanohi (face to face) with adults, youth, and children five and up; he also facilitates family sessions, couples, group therapy sessions, and play-based therapy.

โ€œIโ€™m honoured every time I get to work with a new person. To hear a personโ€™s story, their struggles, and their hopes, is such a privilege.โ€

Sharon Jenkinson

Counsellor

BASS (Counselling)
Registered Member of NZAC

Sharon brings a holistic approach to her counselling practice and has a rich background in kaupapa Mฤori services. Sharon has a client-centred philosophy, where she tailors her methods to what works best for each individual. Sharon is adaptable and flexible, walking alongside people on their unique journeys. Her expertise spans a range of areas, including strategies for managing stress, anxiety, grief, and addictions. She has experience supporting people with trauma including intergenerational trauma.

Sharon aspires to support people to reach their full potential. โ€œI walk alongside the person, helping them uncover the solutions and answers that often lie within themselves.โ€

He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata. What is the most important thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people.

Patricia Schimanski Clark

Counsellor

BASS (Psychotherapy) Dip. Integrative Psychology (Hakomi)
Member Registered with NZAC

Patricia offers Hakomi as a way of looking at the world that is compassionate, mindful, curious, non-invasive, humorous and respectful.

Patriciaโ€™s experience as a counsellor includes working alongside children and adults with various issues. Clients that are struggling through grief and change, depression, challenging relationships, abuse and other problems that can be overwhelming for a young or adult person and their family connect well with her.

โ€œSometimes we need someone who isnโ€™t involved in our lives to listen and help us understand some pretty tough experiences. I think itโ€™s important to feel comfortable and safe with a counsellor. I work within an organisation that values professionalism and honours the unique position of every client.โ€

Sara Eaton

Counsellor

BASS Counseling and Pyschotherapy
Registered Member of NZAC

Sara is a psychotherapy trained counsellor who works with adults and older clients. She has a strong holistic and wellbeing focus enabling clients to create life balance through self-care and building resilience. Sara can help you to navigate grief, anxiety, stress, and depression and develop coping skills and strategies to manage these challenges. She works from a person centered and existential perspective enabling clients to explore choices to facilitate positive life changes. Sara brings acceptance, calm and humour to her work with clients.

โ€œBetween stimulus and response there is a space, in that space is our power to choose our response, in our response lies our growth and our freedomโ€ (Frankl)

Liz Ross-Smith

Counsellor

BASS (Counselling)
Registered Member of NZAC

Liz works alongside clients within a holistic framework, providing an environment which allows for growth, resilience and autonomy.
A mother of three and grandmother of three, she has facilitated the Post Natal Adjustment Programme and various parenting programmes for several years.

โ€œChange is an inevitable aspect of the road we walk as human beings. At times we need support in order for us to be heard while we speak our truth, find clarity and see a way forwardโ€

Special support for Cyclone recovery.

The impact of Cyclone Gabrielle has left many in our community needing extra support. We offer free counselling to those affected by recent weather events. Recovery is a journey, and weโ€™re here to walk alongside you every step of the way. Learn more..