This Belongs invites you to claim your space and experience deep empathic listening, emotional validation and guidance.
​We all need to be seen, heard and deeply understood and have our experience validated. The places where this happens for us are sacred spaces, yet all too rare.

I provide a safe space to explore whatever is present for you in whatever way you need. You may already know exactly what this is, or you may require guidance around this.

I am influenced by Internal Family Systems, mindfulness practices, attachment theory, embodiment and nervous system regulation, polyvagal theory, neuroplasticity, Sandtray, Non-Violent Communication and Gestalt and Psychodrama techniques. I am social work trained and have done two years of Gestalt group work and a further two years of Psychodrama training, as well as mindfulness meditation training and training in mindful, somatic approaches to working with trauma.
​I am working towards becoming fully qualified as a Psychotherapist.

​Michelle Gillanders
PostGradDip — Social & Community Work (With Credit)
DipGrad — Community & Family Studies
DipGrad — Early Childhood Education
Bachelor of Arts — Anthropology/Psychology

This Belongs
Ōtepoti/Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand