Counselling Team

Kathy CList
B.Soc.Prac. (Couns), P.G. Cert H.Sc. (MindBody Healthcare), MNZAC, MNZCCA, ACC Accredited

Kathy is one of the founders of C.A.R.E. Waitakere Trust. She works with adult men and women, with particular interest in the areas of stress and burn out, self awareness and spirituality. She also offers clinical supervision to other counsellors (particularly those working in abuse and mental health areas) and counselling students.  

Kathy and her husband have an adult family that share her love of Italy and travel.

Lynn Goold
Dip. Couns. (endorsed in Family Therapy), L.Th., Dip. Min., Trained Teachers Cert, MNZAC, MNZCCA. Family Court Counsellor

As well as being a wife, parent of two adult children, and grandparent, Lynn’s experience includes teaching and pastoral counselling.  She enjoys seeing people empowered to reclaim their potential, personally and relationally.  She has particular interest in the areas of relationships, self-esteem, depression, sexual abuse and spirituality (including spiritual abuse). 

Lynn also offers supervision to counsellors, pastoral workers, ACC Case Managers and other professionals.

Angelika Halstead
Post Grad. Dip. in Counselling, Cert. Spiritual Direction, MA (Honours), BEd, Dip. Teaching, MACSD, Provisional member of NZAC.

Angelika grew up in Germany and immigrated to New Zealand at the age of 27. She is married with one daughter. Her background is in pharmacy, chaplaincy, language teaching, teacher education, and mentoring.  She trained as a counsellor and Spiritual Director here in New Zealand and specializes in Narrative Therapy.

Angelika enjoys working with young teenagers to older adults, both male and female, of varying religious beliefs, social backgrounds and ethnicities. She believes that counselling offers people effective ways to reflect on the influence of problems in their lives and make changes towards how they would prefer their lives to be.  Angelika delights in helping individuals, couples and families to connect with their hopes and values and express these in ways that foster harmonious ways of living and loving relationships. She enjoys working collaboratively with people and has experience in areas such as grief, depression, anxiety, identity formation, communication, acculturation and personal growth.

Cathy Dodd
Dip. Couns., Dip. Teaching, MNZCC

Cathy is passionate about children, teenagers and adults having a voice. As a counsellor, she is particularly interested in life transitions, personal identity, grief and loss, anxiety and depression, and family relationships. As a child therapist, her life experience and skills have taught her the value of play in helping children share their difficulties and discover their strengths. As well as discovering the value of working alongside their families for optimum growth.  

David Pimentel
B.Soc.Prac. (Couns) MNZAC

David has worked extensively with people and families suffering from the effects of addictions and their underlying issues.  Areas of particular interest include relationship counselling, life transition, men's issues and personal growth. 

David also offers clinical supervision to counsellors working in the addictions field.

Elaine McConnell
Dip. Couns., Nat. Cert. Mental Hlth, Cert. T.A., Cert. Dreamwork, MNZAC

Elaine has been working as a counsellor for five years, initially in private practice and is currently a member of the CARE Counselling team. She trained while working in Mental Health Support and retains a strong interest in working with people recovering from mental illness. She is a member of a senior Transactional Analysis study group that meet regularly throughout the year and has recently contracted to do the examination and dissertation for accreditation as a Certified Transactional Analyst (Psychotherapy). She is also training in Psychosomatic Integration and has a keen interest in the mind-body nexus and ways of working with clients troubled with somatic symptoms.  She values the wisdom in a Maori model of well-being.  She has a wide variety of clients and enjoys providing 'tools' that clients can take and adapt for their own self-management.  She is currently in an on-going Professional Development Group.

Jane Hepburn
B.Couns, MNZCCA, Dip. Couns.

Jane enjoys meeting with children, adolescents, adults and families.  She likes helping people grow through life's challenges and works alongside clients experiencing depression, stress, grief, self-esteem, relationship and identity issues.  Her past experience includes intermediate school counselling, human resources and training.  Jane has two adult children, two grand-daughters and she can juggle!