He Ara Hauora - Wellness Support

Puāwaitanga Counselling Service

• Puāwaitanga means to blossom, to flourish, to break through, and is a phone and web-based service to support all tauira at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi to improve their hauora (emotional wellbeing), providing an alternative to traditional face-to-face counselling. Staffed by trained professionals, sessions are confidential and free.
  
  

  Key features

• Accessibility: offering flexible session times between 9.00 am and 9.00 pm, with options for sessions outside these hours.
• Empathy: Counsellors are empathetic, culturally sensitive, and authentic, ensuring a supportive environment for clients.
• Personalised approach: Clients complete an enrolment questionnaire, choose a counsellor, and book an initial appointment through the Puāwaitanga patient portal. In the first session, they discuss goals and develop a plan together. Subsequent sessions focus on implementing strategies to achieve these goals and improve overall wellbeing.
• Note: Puāwaitanga is only able to provide sessions to tauira currently in New Zealand.

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