iMind Services
Therapies for Individuals, Families, and Groups
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iMind can provide both short (time-limited) and long-term therapies. Therapies are individually-tailored, goal-directed, and evidence-based. Our treatment can address a wide range of psychological problems and challenges. Often, the goal of the therapy is to create a good awareness of your difficulties, reduce the psychological impact on your life, minimise suffering and explore steps to live well. Evidence-based therapies available include:
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Supporting ACC Claims and Partnering with Key Insurance and Welfare Agencies.
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We work together with organisations that specialise in rehabilitation (ACC Funded):
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For Specific Purposes:
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Our multidisciplinary team members provide a wide range of psychiatric and psychological assessments for both common psychological issues and more complex conditions, including ADHD and other neurodiversity concerns. These assessments can assist you in various aspects of life, including work, studies, and personal development. They help in determining any deficits you may have, guiding your study plans, treatment, or rehabilitation. We also provide personality assessments to help you understand your nature and temperament, which can be beneficial in your job, leadership roles, relationships, or treatment. |
Additionally, we offer specific diagnostic assessments for adults to determine if you or a family member may be dealing with conditions such as ADHD or are positioned on the autism spectrum, helping to assess the severity and impact on your life. The cost varies depending on the type of assessment you require.
iMind Psychology provides consultation for the following:
ADHD
ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. An estimated one in 20 New Zealanders have ADHD, yet is poorly understood and frequently remains undiagnosed, causing distress in family, work and social situations. Those with ADHD have many benefits and generally have a normal intellect; however, they also have a characteristic group of symptoms which, if undiagnosed, may lead to slower development in achievement and social skills. Inattention can cause range of problems at school, work, relationships and sometimes problems with law. In moderate to severe cases medication and psychological interventions could help you to live effectively. |
Anger/explosive/impulsive behaviour
Anger is an entirely normal human emotion; but it is problematic if it gets out of control. Frequent anger episodes are not healthy; this could be occurring in multiple situations (home, work or community) this could lead to problems in work, community or quality of personal relationships. Anger-related issues can be a symptom of other underlying problems (depression, dissatisfaction, helplessness, unhappiness, or substance abuse in some cases) including personality related. Before it gets out of your control and is causing substantial problems in your life - seek support. A wide range of psychological treatment/treatment strategies are available to manage this problem. |
Anxiety/Panic attacks
Anxiety can be a useful emotion in certain situations, some of the time. However, persistent, frequent experiences of various types of anxiety can affect your quality of life. These may take the form of panic (sudden experiences of intense anxiety), generalised anxiety, situation-specific anxiety, social anxiety, phobia, OCD etc. These can cause significant problems in your life such as being less sociable, not being able to perform well at your work, avoiding situations. You can consult us to find out the many forms of evidence-based psychological treatment that are available for the effective management of anxiety in all its forms. Further information https://www.mentalhealth.org.nz/get-help/a-z/resource/40/panic-disorder |
Assertiveness and Positive communication
The ability to express your opinions, feelings or ideas in an open, frank, honest and direct way is an important part of establishing and maintaining effective relationships. It recognises one's own rights whilst still respecting the rights of others. An assertive communication style helps us to take responsibility for ourselves and our actions without judging or blaming other people. Opposite to this is either a passive or aggressive communication style. This often creates problems for you and others around you. The underlying cause of being unable to express your own thoughts, feelings, and needs is often due to ones's own internal beliefs (For example - “saying no means being rude”, “they may not like me if I don't say yes to their requests” etc). This problem can be changed or modified using a combination of therapeutic approaches to developing effective communication styles. |
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
Autism is a developmental condition that affects the way people make sense of the world. ASDs are life-long issues/deficits that affect social, communication and general behaviour. Some support services are available in the community, our service provides assessment and individually tailored self-management skills to help with social situations, anxiety management, etc. |
Burnout Management
Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged exposure to stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to meet constant demands. Burnout can also cause long-term changes to your body that make you vulnerable to illnesses like colds and flu. Recently the World Health Organisation (WHO) has officially recognised that burnout is a condition and health hazard. Untreated, eventually, burnout can lead to many health and occupational challenges. |
Depression
From time to time we all feel sad, irritable, anxious, moody or low, however, some people experience these feelings quite intensely, for long periods (weeks, months or even years). Sometimes this may have been triggered by an adverse event, or may not have any apparent reason. Depression is more than just a low mood – it's a serious condition that affects your physical and mental health. Visit your GP soon, you may qualify for *funded psychological consultation sessions (*only in certain GP practices which have access to funding). |
Existential Challenges
Sometimes we find ourselves asking the big questions about life, such as the purpose of life, relationships, working, values, spirituality, and why is life going this way right now. At times these challenges are associated with depression as one tends to give up, or have lost sight of the bigger picture. If this is something you can relate to and need our help book an appointment. |
Grief
Grieving is a natural process of coming to terms with a loss. However, the grieving process can be a very painful and you may encounter intense negative emotions, physical reactions and stress. This can lead to isolation, loss of social connections, and could potentially trigger depression. If you have been experiencing this over several months, then it is worthwhile seeking help. |
Guilt / Shame
Sometimes, two words are used interchangeably, sometimes they go together hand in hand; however, from a psychological perspective, they are different experiences. Guilt is often associated with others, and shame relates to how you feel. Often these experiences are part of other challenges e.g., depression, anxiety, low self-worth, addictions, or relationship issues. Evidence-based therapeutic processes do help to address these issues. |
Infidelity/trust issue
Have you been hurt by cheating, or being cheated? This can cause a great deal of hurt, broken relationships, and mistrust. The whole experience can be very painful and unsettling. This can trigger anger, self-worth, doubt, guilt, and even addictions in some cases. It is healthy to talk about it, and to seek support as just try to bury or suppress things will not be helpful in the long run. |
Interpersonal problem
Are you struggling with relationship issues with your partner, friends, family, or someone at work? Watch out for questions like, frequent arguments, value differences, falling out of love, jealous, self-conscious, feeling like you have been let down, power struggle, control issues, or any abusive cycle you are going through? If you think there is no way forward and it is affecting your emotional wellbeing, you may well need help to address these problems. If so, then it would be worth consulting us. |
Loss of meaning of life
This varies from person to person; each life phase brings many levels of challenges which is normal. Are you feeling empty, lost, finding it hard to be motivated, see meaning, or have no real purpose? If, this struggle is quite apparent, persistent over time, you may need help to find ways to break out of this situation. It would be worthwhile consulting us. |
Low self-esteem
Quite often low self-esteem is linked to depression, anxiety, and other common mental health conditions. Often the problem is that we may to dislike ourselves, manage to undermine our efforts, see more flaws than any strengths, to highlight shortfalls, avoid talking to others, avoiding relationships, taking up jobs, socialising, being self-conscious, and suffering emotional struggles like anxiety. Is this sound like you, and it is affecting your emotional wellbeing then it is worthwhile taking sometime to address this. |
Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD)
This is a common, chronic and long-lasting type of anxiety disorder in which a person finds it difficult to control, reoccurring obsessive thoughts (Obsessions) and compulsive behaviours (Compulsions) that he or she feels the urge to repeat over and over. This is can be very distressing, limiting and time-consuming. Those who struggle with such symptoms find it difficult to break the habit, others (family/friends/ work) find it difficult to understand and provide support, which can cause significant interpersonal problems. Sometimes OCD can be present as part of the other mental conditions (co-occurring conditions). CBT and other treatments have found to be effective in managing these conditions. If you are someone experiencing this, you can consult us for an accurate assessment and available treatment options. |
Performance improvement
This may vary from person to person. You may often feel that you are under the weather, that you or someone you report to feels you are not at your best and need to address ways to enhance your work performance. Many factors could contribute to this: personal issues, relationship issues, self-worth, loss of motivation, lack of clear goals, burnout or other emotional issues. Before it turns into a bigger problem, it is worth consulting us. |
Personality Issues
Is your nature, temperament or personality creating problems in your relationships? Is your nature getting in the way of your work? Are you prone to be introverted, anxious temperament or opposite? Do you have dependency traits? Do you fear of abandonment? Are you too emotionally sensitive? Are you being controlled by others? Difficult to attach, relate, and others find it challenging to understand you? Is this causing friction with others, loss of relationships or even costing your job? Assessments and treatments are available for a wide range of personality issues. |
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder can occur at any time after a person has experienced a traumatic event, such as an assault, or serious accident. The symptoms last for at least a month and include difficulty in relaxing, bad dreams or flashbacks of the incident, and the avoidance of anything related to the event. If you think you or someone you know might have PTSD, it's important to get help. Talk to your GP or health professional. (Ministry of Health, New Zealand). You may qualify for an ACC funded psychological intervention. We do provide evidence-based psychological interventions to support you to manage PTSD. |
Psychological Assessments
A Psychological Assessment includes using a wide range of standardised and validated psychometric assessment tools, recording a good case history, and formulations in order to arrive at a professional psychological opinion and selection of treatment options. We can provide intellectual assessments, memory assessments, personality assessments, diagnostic assessments for conditions such as ASD, ADHD or personality assessments for treatment or establishing eligibility for long-term support. |
Psychological Trauma (PT)
After experiencing a distressing event, one could develop psychological distress. Trauma often results in a disproportionate amount of stress that exceeds one's capacity to withstand or cope. Such experience could trigger depression, or range of severe anxiety (including panic attacks), self-harm/suicidal thoughts, harmful coping (avoidance, substance use to numbing feelings) You may qualify for an ACC funded psychological intervention. We do provide evidence-based psychological interventions to support you to resolve PT. |
Relationship struggles
Good relationships run smoothly and enable you to enjoy your life, work, and other activities beyond the relationship. You're not always worrying or talking about it. Like a smooth-running car, you don't have to keep repairing it. You may have disagreements and get angry, but you still have goodwill toward one another, talk things over, resolve conflicts, and return to a loving, enjoyable state. If you are experiencing struggles in your relationships it can be helpful to talk these through. |
Stress management
We all need a certain level of stress in- orer to be healthy. It is normal to feel sad, depressed, anxious, tense or afraid. These are common and natural human emotions. But sometimes these feelings can become so overwhelming that coping with day-to-day life, work, leisure, and relationships – becomes difficult or impossible. Stress can cause physical changes in the body designed to help you take on threats or difficulties (The fight or flight response). Once such a situation is passed your body should normally return to a baseline. However, if you are constantly under stress your body stays in a state of high alert, and you may develop stress-induced psycho-physiological symptoms. |
Suicidal thoughts / Self-harming
(Sourced from mental health foundations NZ)
Whatever is going on for you that has led to how you're feeling right now is unique to you – but having suicidal thoughts is not. You are not alone; lots of people have thought about killing themselves and have found a way to live through that experience and found happiness on the other side.
Having suicidal thoughts can be overwhelming and frightening. It can be tough to know what to do and how to cope. You may feel very depressed or anxious or you may feel terrible and not know what the feelings are.
You may feel like you are useless and not wanted or needed by anyone. You may be feeling hopeless about the future or powerless, as if nothing you do or say can change things for the better. You may be blaming yourself for things that have happened in your life, and you might think it would be easier for others if you weren't here. You may not even know why you feel suicidal, and think that you have no reason to want to kill yourself. Because of this, you may feel guilty and ashamed, and start feeling even worse.
It can feel much worse if no-one knows what you are going through or how bad you feel. You don't need to be alone. Some people are willing, able and available to help you. https://www.mentalhealth.org.nz/get-help/a-z/resource/50/suicide-coping-with-suicidal-thoughts
In an urgent / crisis situation, you call 111 or local mental health line. If it is non-urgent, then consider visiting your GP. Our service can help you to develop a coping strategy, learn skills to manage such thoughts, find ways to deal with the underlying problems via various psychotherapy, including DBT (create a link from below). If you need you can consult us.
(Sourced from mental health foundations NZ)
Whatever is going on for you that has led to how you're feeling right now is unique to you – but having suicidal thoughts is not. You are not alone; lots of people have thought about killing themselves and have found a way to live through that experience and found happiness on the other side.
Having suicidal thoughts can be overwhelming and frightening. It can be tough to know what to do and how to cope. You may feel very depressed or anxious or you may feel terrible and not know what the feelings are.
You may feel like you are useless and not wanted or needed by anyone. You may be feeling hopeless about the future or powerless, as if nothing you do or say can change things for the better. You may be blaming yourself for things that have happened in your life, and you might think it would be easier for others if you weren't here. You may not even know why you feel suicidal, and think that you have no reason to want to kill yourself. Because of this, you may feel guilty and ashamed, and start feeling even worse.
It can feel much worse if no-one knows what you are going through or how bad you feel. You don't need to be alone. Some people are willing, able and available to help you. https://www.mentalhealth.org.nz/get-help/a-z/resource/50/suicide-coping-with-suicidal-thoughts
In an urgent / crisis situation, you call 111 or local mental health line. If it is non-urgent, then consider visiting your GP. Our service can help you to develop a coping strategy, learn skills to manage such thoughts, find ways to deal with the underlying problems via various psychotherapy, including DBT (create a link from below). If you need you can consult us.
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