Raquel Beeby

Kia ora, I am Tangata Tiriti, of Celtic/Norse/Jewish heritage. I acknowledge and celebrate Maori as Tangata Whenua of Aotearoa New Zealand. Psychotherapy and counselling have been my passion for more than 30 years, working in several community agencies with a wide variety of individuals and couples. I’ve also enjoyed some years in clinical roles in the corporate world. My private practice has flourished since 2012.

I am a Registered Psychotherapist (PBANZ), Certified Transactional Analyst (Psychotherapy) and a Full Member of New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists/Te Rōpū Whakaora Hinengaro (NZAP). I served on the Board of the Aotearoa New Zealand Transactional Analysis Association (ANZTAA) between 2013-2022, holding several Executive roles, including President.

I also have a BA (Psychology), Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling, and Level 1 Certificate in Narrative Therapy. I hold a Certificate in Clinical Supervision and I completed a two-year Group Psychotherapy training programme in 2023.

ReWilding myself is transformational and a life-long journey of opening up to and learning from the rest of the living world. I am seeking ways to be in emergent and expansive relationships of reciprocity and reverence. In 2022 I participated in The Work That Reconnects online training and continue my own research and exploration of Animism and Deep Ecology practices. I hold a current certificate of Outdoor First Aid.

As a child, I daydreamed cradled in the arms of a magnolia tree. Resinous fragrance enveloped my conversations with woodshed slaters. I got ‘lost and found’ in the wilds of bush, ocean and mountains. Fishing for rainbow trout in burbling streams, prying stubborn mussels off craggy rocks, boiling a campfire billy, falling asleep to a ruru’s lullaby. I swam with pond frogs in an Iranian desert oasis! These elemental experiences were so sensuous and made porous my sense of the boundary between my self and the wild.

Adulting life of academic study, clinical, corporate and community work, and urban child-raising got in the way of my deepfelt connection to the wild, and blinded me to the loss of this extended family. That was, until a deep South tree told me I ‘belong’. And, the sparkling waters of Waiheke Island stole my heart and reawakened my soul.

Now a new adventure begins, returning to the embrace of familiar wilds in the Wellington region!