Dr Derek Patton
Psychologist, PhD, NZPsS Member
My interpersonal approach is to listen carefully to a person’s life challenges and then help them increase their use of their own personal strengths and capacities.
The modalities I use for this will depend on your own engagement preferences. I do not find it necessary or useful to focus on deficits, traumatic details or perceived weakness.
There is no problem, experience or thought you have that you cannot share with me. If you want to get past these blockages to a better life, then I am here to assist you on your journey. Pick your own session time and book online.
My Specialties
Child or Adolescent
Couples and Families
Life Coaching
Trauma and PTSD
Treating Issues
- ADHD
- Addiction
- Adoption
- Alcohol Use
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Behavioural Issues
- Bereavement
- Chronic Pain
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Gambling
- Learning Disabilities
- Life Meaning and purpose
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Men’s Issues
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance
- Parenting
- Relationship Issues
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sex Therapy
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Addiction
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Spirituality
- Sports Performance
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Ideation
- Teen Violence
Mental Health Disorders
Elderly Persons Disorders | Impulse Control Disorders | Mood Disorders | Personality Disorders | Thinking Disorders
Types of Therapy
- ACC sensitive claims approved psychologist
- Art Therapy
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behavioural (CBT)
- Compassion Focused
- Emotionally Focused
- Existential
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Gottman Method
- Humanistic
- Interpersonal
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Multicultural
- Narrative
- Person-Centred
- Play Therapy
- Positive Psychology
- Strength-Based
- Virtues Based Strengths