David McMillan | Counsellor

My specialist areas are Autism, ADHD, neurodiversity generally, trauma, cancer (I am a survivor myself), sexual abuse, anxiety, parenting, creating meaning, purpose and direction in life. I provide supportive, compassionate, and positive counselling with a focus on older children, teens, adults and families. Many think of me as a coach who helps them develop skills to cope with and overcome problems and to identify the life that they want for themselves and to work on ways to create that life for themselves.

I enjoy helping people generate visions, hopes and goals for the life they want and then supporting them in moving towards creating that. I provide my clients with relational, therapeutic and skills-based counselling. I provide visual resources of useful strategies and plans to help cope with challenges. I have a strengths focus and use IFS, Schema Therapy.

I am experienced in working with adults, adolescents, older children, and families on a broad range of issues that may be causing you distress. Anxiety, depression, grief and loss, trauma, sexual abuse, adjustment challenges. counselling for people who are Asperger’s or Autistic, ADHD or are neurodivergent in other ways. Please reach out to me for support.

Client Types:

Adults, Adolescents, Older Children

Practice Locations

Northcote Point, Auckland 0627 (next to the Harbour Bridge)

Contact

To contact David McMillan email: referrals@yourfocus.co.nz

Counselling / Therapy Services

I provide supportive, compassionate, and positive general counselling with a focus on older children, teens, adults and families. Many prefer to think of me as a coach who helps them develop skills to cope with and overcome problems and to identify the life that they want for themselves and to work with me on ways to create that life for themselves. We can identify how your present is linked to your past and work on ways to help you heal old wounds so that you can live well and feel safer and happier in the present.

Counselling / Therapy Approach

I also provide lots of visual resources of useful strategies and plans to help cope with challenges. I have a strengths focus and my main therapeutic modalities are Schema Therapy, Internal Family Systems, DBT, Solution Focused Therapy, Existential Therapy and the client centered Motivational Interviewing.

Registrations and Professional Memberships

• MNZAC

• ACC Registered

• Registered Teacher

Qualifications

• Master of Counselling (Hons)

• Post Graduate Diploma of Counselling

• Graduate Diploma Psychosocial Studies (Psychotherapy)