Hayden Isaac
Psychotherapist
Working Online and in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

My Approach

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a process and insight orientated talk therapy that aids self discovery and the working through of underlying causes of psychological suffering and relationship difficulties.

In my approach, I offer a warm, open, and containing engagement where I will listen closely to you. In this process, we will consider and reflect on the possible ways your internal and external experiences inform who you are and how you interact with the world to enrich self understanding and enabling you to live more fully.

This process is often a deeply emotional one, leading to the integration of aspects of you that have been pushed to the periphery, allowing something new to emerge.

This process has helped many to:

• enrich self understanding

• work through psychological difficulties, conflicts, dilemmas, and resistances

• learn from experience

• discover new ways to manage/process everyday stresses

• navigate relationships and social interactions

• nourish their capacity to grieve, let go, and change

• deepen their ability to connect with and disconnect from others

• work through attachment difficulties

• live more congruently/fully

To do this, I draw from several psychodynamic and psychoanalytic understandings of human psychology, development, and technique, such as:

• Object Relations Theory

• Attachment Theory

• Neuropsychotherapy / Neuropsychoanalysis

• Trauma Theory

My Experience

I have been practicing psychodynamic / psychoanalytic psychotherapy since 2017. I have worked and had success with a diverse range of people struggling with an assorting of mental health difficulties and life struggles at the AUT Psychotherapy Clinic (now called AUT Integrated Health), at Dove Hospice, at the Ashburn Clinic, at Whakamatutu (the Depression Recovery Centre), and in private practice. I have also provided clinical supervision.

I have had training for and have had success with most presentations. I have a particular interest the people struggling with the wake of traumatic experiences, neglect and abuse; relationship difficulties; mood and anxiety difficulties; sense of home and belonging; grief and loss; perception and thought processes; and people that want to have a better understanding of themselves and want a more fulfilling life.

Outside of psychotherapy, I have a background in the performing arts, horticulture, hospitality, ESOL teaching, and early childhood education; and, have lived abroad in South Korea and in Canada.

My qualifications and Registrations

Bmus with First Class Honours (Ethnomusicology; VUW), GradDipHealthScience in Psychotherapy, Masters of Psychotherapy with First Class Honours (AUT).

Registered Psychotherapist (PBANZ)
Member of APANZ
Associate member of the Centre of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
ACC registered

Appointments

My individual therapy appointments are $150 per 50-minute session by prior arrangement. Couples therapy appointments are $225 per 80-minute session. A discounted fee is available when paid in advance or at each appointment. WINZ and ACC funding available for those eligible.

Telehealth (online based therapy) appointments available via www.doxy.me.

Please contact me for more information.