Malik McCann | Psychotherapist
Malik McCann |Psychotherapist
Life inevitably has its challenges for all of us, and despite our best efforts we can feel lost as to how to move forward. My intention in therapy is to work alongside you to make sense of your particular struggle and the unconscious dynamics which contribute to it. I aim to support positive change, through greater insight, self-acceptance and understanding.
Client Types:
Cross cultural issues and marginalisation
Depression & anxiety
Trauma and complex trauma
Emotional dys-regulation
Loss and grief
Addiction
Relationships
Practice Locations
302/1904 Great North Rd. Avondale. Auckland
Contact
To contact Malik email: referrals@yourfocus.co.nz
Counselling / Therapy Services
Therapy is a journey into the depths of yourself to find more clarity and meaning. As a therapist I take this journey beside you to understand your unique life story. To explore your strengths as well as your challenges and to work with you towards a deeper understanding of your thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and the beliefs and patterns that lie outside of your conscious awareness, shedding those that no longer serve you and fostering ways that do.
Outcomes of therapy can include a more supportive relationship with yourself- including greater capacity for self-compassion, self-protection, stronger self-identity and self-worth; healthier and more fulfilling relationships; and increased capacity to maintain resilience in the face of life’s unavoidable up’s and down’s.
Counselling / Therapy Approach
I have a relational approach which means that I work with you to forge a strong, collaborative and secure relationship that can serve as a model for your future relationships. I offer a warm and empathic environment for short term or long term therapy.
Being trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy, I’m particularly interested in how our past and particularly our early life experiences shape our way of relating in the world and with ourselves.
I use DBT and other modalities to resource you with skills to support emotional regulation and equilibrium.
As a tauiwi partner in te Tiriti, I am committed to continually deepening my understanding of hauora Māori and kaupapa Māori, as well as other indigenous holistic and collectivist models of wellbeing.
Registrations and Professional Memberships
Registered Psychotherapist
Member of Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand
Member of the NZ Association of Psychotherapists
Qualifications
Currently undertaking a PhD in Counselling Education
Masters of Psychotherapy (first degree honours)
Graduate Diploma of Psychotherapy
Bachelor of Business- Marketing
NZ Diploma in Therapeutic Massage