Sometimes we don’t need another way forward.

We need somewhere safe to stop and be still. So that - in time - something new can emerge.

Hello I’m Clare Rousseau

I accompany people through periods of distress, transition, uncertainty, and transformation.

My work is grounded in the view that our surface reality (symptoms, struggles, or stasis) is an invitation into a new way of seeing, understanding, and relating to ourselves, each other, and the world.

Together we explore the deeper patterns shaping your experience through careful attention to what unfolds between us, in your relationships, and in your life. Over time, this quality of close attending creates the possibility of greater coherence, freedom, and intimacy with reality as it is, as well as the emergence of new ways of being with yourself, your work, and others.

I’m a therapist based in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. I have an MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality, and Transpersonal Psychology, and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Philosophy. I am Māori (Ngāti Mutunga) and Pākehā. I have worked in private practice for the last six years, primarily offering containers for long-term transformational work, grounded in psychodynamic theory and somatic inquiry. I am currently in my second year of a three-year training in the Conversational Model of psychodynamic psychotherapy, which offers a pathway to registration as a psychotherapist at the completion of the third year.

I am a trainee member of ANZAP, the Australia New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy and a student member of APANZ, the Association of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand.

One-on-one Offerings:

Team, Group and Organisational Offerings

~ ACKNOWLEDGING THIS LAND & HONOURING TE TIRITI O WAITANGI

He mihi ki te whenua

The practice where I work is on the whenua of Te Whanganui-a-Tara. I acknowledge the whakapapa, mana whenua and kaitiakitanga of Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika and Ngāti Toa Rangatira, the iwi who hold mana whenua in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. I also acknowledge the deeper histories of this whenua, including Ngāi Tara, Rangitāne, Muaūpoko, Ngāti Apa and Ngāti Ira, and the many generations of tangata whenua whose relationships with this place reach back through time.

I recognise He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni (1835), which affirmed the rangatiratanga and independence of the United Tribes, and Te Tiriti o Waitangi (1840), which established an enduring relationship between Māori and the Crown. I recognise that Māori did not cede their sovereignty in signing Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and uphold the tino rangatiratanga of Māori and our right to determine our own futures.

My own whakapapa connects me to both Māori and Pākehā ancestry. I am Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri, with further whakapapa connections through my tīpuna's maternal line to Waikato and possibly Ngāti Toa. My Pākehā ancestry includes Scottish, English, French, Portuguese and Germanic roots. I acknowledge these different strands of my whakapapa as part of my identity and relationship to Aotearoa.

I aspire to honour Te Tiriti as a living commitment, through deepening my understanding, relationships and responsibilities, and contributing to a truly flourishing Aotearoa. 

 
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