Zoe Triggs – Registered Psychotherapist

How psychotherapy can benefit you:

• Provides a safe space where painful stories and feelings can be explored
• Helps reduce your symptoms – for example, stress, anxiety, depression, irritability
• Improves your ability to cope with life and its stressors
• Helps you understand how, and why, you have become who you are
• Helps you grow in self-awareness, confidence, and happiness
• Helps you develop more satisfying intimate relationships
• Develops a strengthened sense of inner identity and freedom to be who you are

Some things my clients and I work on together:

• Recovering from the effects of traumatic experiences
• ACC sensitive claims 
• Anxiety, stress, burn-out, attempts at ‘resilience’, work-life balance, and unhelpful coping mechanisms
• Depression, exhaustion, feeling joyless and hopeless about the future
• Relationship difficulties and problematic relational patterns at work and in the home
• Being at a life cross-roads and questioning the relevance of past identities
• Sexuality and gender
• Worries about alcohol and substance use
• Self-doubt, self-judgement, low self-worth, and lack of confidence
• Identifying and regulating emotions – particularly anger
• Feeling stuck and unable to change
• Processing grief, trauma, health issues and loss
• Developing communication and social skills

More about me

My psychotherapy is informed by my long career in business. A former ‘big 4’ management consultant I have more than twenty years’ experience advising on the people elements of global M&A and transformations for multi-national corporates. I am a dual British and New Zealand citizen who lived in London for 18 years. I have worked across the U.K, Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.

My approach

I am a relational psychodynamic psychotherapist drawing on trauma therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT), Māori models of health and healing, and mindfulness approaches as required. 

I am also very familiar with the realities of the corporate life and its demands on employees. I understand how these demands shape our identities, our physical and mental well-being, and our relationships.

I offer a confidential, non-judgemental, in-depth listening ear with no agenda. My clients say they value my professional manner, my critical thinking and my sense of humour. I am used to working with male and female clients of all ages and cultural backgrounds.

Areas of specialisation

I work on all types of issues – big and small – relating to my client’s personal and professional lives. Some of my current areas of specialisation are mental wellbeing in the workplace, trauma, substance-use as a coping strategy, and best practices in psychotherapy technique.

Contact details

Please don’t hesitate to arrange an initial consultation via phone 022 543 9471 or at [email protected]. See further information about me and my work at Ryan & Associates | Counselling & Psychotherapy Takapuna

I see clients at my rooms in Takapuna at 18 Northcroft Street. I look forward to supporting you.