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Originally from a farming community in South Otago, Di, along with her husband and children, has called Rotorua home for 30 years. She has extensive experience as a Social Worker before gaining her qualifications as a Clinical Psychologist in 2006.

Di’s social work background includes statutory work in child protection and youth justice settings, as well as, extensive experience conducting forensic interviews of children, giving evidence in court, and providing specialist training for a range of professionals in child focused interviews. Her clinical psychology experience has included working at Department of Corrections and Child & Adolescent Mental Health (where she was Associate Professional Advisor) settings providing specialist offender based and mental health diagnostic reports, therapeutic intervention for offender populations and children/youth/family with mental health issues, and clinical supervision and psychology advice.

Currently, she sees older children, youth and adults for a range of mental health difficulties – primarily mood related issues (anxiety, depression, grief and trauma). She provides clinical supervision for a range of professionals and holds contracts with Police and Fire & Emergency NZ. Di also has an interest in Autism Spectrum Disorder, undertaking diagnostic assessments for youth and adults. While registered with ACC (ISSC/Sensitive Claims and Psychological Services contract), she is no longer accepting referrals for Sensitive Claims at this time.