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

My Approach

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is an intensive process 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 practiced at the AUT Psychotherapy Clinic (now called AUT Integrated Health), at Dove Hospice, at the Ashburn Clinic, and in private practice.

I have worked and had success with a diverse range of people struggling with an assorting of mental health difficulties and life struggles, including:

• addictions

• anger

• anxiety disorders

• disordered eating / eating disorders

• ecological grief

• feeling emotionally and/or creatively blocked

• feeling emotionally overwhelmed

• feeling like you are not living into the fullness of life

• feelings of unreality, disassociation, and psychosis

• grief and loss

• life threatening illness/disease

• mood disorders

• personality disorders

• psychological/emotional difficulties surrounding life-threatening illnesses

• relationship difficulties

• sense of identity and self

• self-doubt and insecurity

• sex, sexuality, and sexual disturbances

• somatisation, conversion, and functional neurological disorder (FND)

• stress

• the wake of traumatic experiences

• toxic shame and guilt

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 NZAP

Appointments

My individual therapy appointments are $150 per 50 minute session by prior arrangement. Discounted appointments are available for students, low income patients, and twice-weekly appointments. WINZ funding available for those eligible.

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

Please contact me for more information.

Please note: I am currently working online with the intention of opening a consulting room in Wellington in the second half of the year.