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Lea | Registered Psychotherapist
Introduction
My name is Lea.
With a Bachelor of Social Sciences in Psychology, I am certified in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. A graduate therapist in Integrative Psychotherapy (Hakomi) and am a certified Buddhist chaplain.
With a Bachelor of Social Sciences in Psychology, I am certified in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. A graduate therapist in Integrative Psychotherapy (Hakomi) and am a certified Buddhist chaplain.
Specialising in loss, grief, and end-of-life counselling, I have extensive experience using mindfulness and cognitive behavioural skills therapy for depression, anxiety, workplace stress, and burnout.
I work in a way that is client centred, valuing the clients' lead in exploring their difficulties at their own pace and in their own way - I see my role as a guide in this process.
I also coach individuals in the MBCT programme.
I draw on a range of therapeutic modalities, including mindfulness, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), psychoeducation, mindful and somatic psychotherapy (Hakomi), and non-sectarian chaplaincy counselling.
Online therapy
60 minute sessions via zoom
Qualifications and registrations
Professional Qualifications
Registrations
Professional Development
- Bachelor of Social Sciences in Psychology
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
- Integrative Psychotherapy (Hakomi graduate)
- Buddhist Chaplain
Registrations
- NZAP
- MBCT (MTIA)
Professional Development
- Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness (MTIA)
- Teaching Mindfulness in the Workplace (Oxford University's Mindfulness Centre)
- Teaching MBCT-L and Peace in a frantic World curriculum (Oxford University's Mindfulness Centre)
Registrations
Specialisations
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy12 Session package
Learn the life-changing tools of mindfulness meditation with cognitive skills to:
• Find calm, increase focus and reduce stress to avoid burnout
• Increase self-care and resilience
• Enhance self-compassion, moving away from rumination and self-criticism
MBCT is a clinically trialled and evidence-based eight-week program for managing stress, anxiety and depression. Recommended by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, UK for the treatment of recurrent depression and to manage ruminative thinking and anxiety.
Therapies offered
Areas of counselling I can help with
- ✓ Anxiety
- ✓ Covid-19 Anxiety
- ✓ Fear
- ✓ Hyperventilation
- ✓ Insecurity
- ✓ Jealousy
- ✓ Obsessive compulsive disorder
- ✓ Panic attack
- ✓ Performance anxiety
- ✓ Phobia
- ✓ Post-traumatic stress disorder
- ✓ Social anxiety
Fees
$100 per one hour sessionAvailability (Opening hours)
| Monday | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Tuesday | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Wednesday | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Thursday | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
| Friday | 9.00AM - 5.00PM |
| Saturday | - |
| Sunday | - |
Reviews Counselling & Psychotherapy Christchurch NZ
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Based on 8 reviews
I’ve found Lea to be completely non-judgemental
My continuous failed attempts over 30 years to overcome bulimia led me in the past year to online psychotherapy with Lea. I’ve found Lea to be completely non-judgemental and shows genuine care and concern. Her gentle guidance through the felt sense in the body to core issues has led to real changes in my life. I am still a work in progress, but I am no longer controlled by a very entrenched addiction. I have freedom and choices now and food no longer consumes my life.
Jo | Dunedin | 5 May 2025
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Lea is full of compassion and wisdom
I had several sessions with Lea and I am very grateful for her warm and caring support on my journey of self-discovery. Lea helped me to understand and accept different parts of myself by gently guiding me into areas of my body where I was feeling the emotions and the overwhelm. The safe and trusting environment allowed me to open up and explore the uncomfortable and painful places inside myself with compassion and love. The Hakomi approach was a wonderful tool to turn inwards and become aware of the wealth of information stored in our bodies. Lea is full of compassion and wisdom and after each session, I felt truly heard, accepted, and much lighter in myself.
Isabel | Richmond | 19 Apr 2025
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Every session with Lea offers insights
Lea has respectfully offered a journey of self-discovery to live more mindfully. Every session with Lea offers insights and approaches to understand where I’ve come from and where I want to go in life. This has been challenging, but rewarding, made easier thanks to Lea’s respectful and mindful approach.
Jo | Richmond | 2 Mar 2025
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I strongly recommend Lea
I am extremely fortunate to have had a series of psychotherapy sessions with Lea. She is a sensitive, empathetic and professional therapist who really helped me cope with my family background, medical history and life experiences in a positive way.
I feel privileged to have started this ongoing process with Lea who used her knowledge of psychotherapy and deep understanding of mindfulness to provide me with the tools I needed to become more accepting and positive.
I strongly recommend Lea as a psychotherapist
I feel privileged to have started this ongoing process with Lea who used her knowledge of psychotherapy and deep understanding of mindfulness to provide me with the tools I needed to become more accepting and positive.
I strongly recommend Lea as a psychotherapist
Margret | Christchurch | 3 Feb 2022
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Gentle and respectful
I have been fortunate to enjoy 8 sessions of Mindfulness training with Lea Godfrey. Her approach has always been gentle and respectful. I have learnt strategies to enable me to function more calmly when faced with stressful situations in my everyday life.
F L Taylor | Nelson | 21 Jan 2022
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Thanks so much
Thanks so much again for a life changing 8 weeks (MBCT). This practice is changing the relationship I have with myself, my thoughts, feelings and my actions and transforming the way I relate to and connect with the world (environment and people) around me every day in surprising ways.
Samantha Vandenhoek | Australia | 11 Jan 2022
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I cherish the time I had with Lea
I found Lea incredibly caring, and she always made an effort to understand me and challenged me in ways that worked for me.
I would have no hesitation to recommend her for anybody that I care about.
I cherish the time I had with Lea; she is a very caring person who has great tools to help others.
I would have no hesitation to recommend her for anybody that I care about.
I cherish the time I had with Lea; she is a very caring person who has great tools to help others.
Odette | Nelson | 18 Dec 2021
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Incredibly helpful
Lea showed that she listened carefully to what I said, as she often referred back to points I had made and was able to weave those points back into the conversation.
Lea helped me to feel how my body reacts and where my body reacts. This has proved incredibly helpful outside the counselling sessions and has made me far more aware of my stress and anxiety levels and how to help myself.
Lea helped me to feel how my body reacts and where my body reacts. This has proved incredibly helpful outside the counselling sessions and has made me far more aware of my stress and anxiety levels and how to help myself.
Ali Davis | Motueka | 30 Nov 2021
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