I whakapapa to Te Tai Tokerau-Northland/ Norwegian and Te Tairāwhiti/Spanish - East Coast. I have been a registered comprehensive nurse for thirty years.  My experience includes clinical, cultural and management.  I was called and inspired to set up HĀ Healing Hub in 2022.

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My specialty areas include Mental Health, Forensic and Intellectual Disabilities in Aotearoa and the United Kingdom. I am qualified in a variety of areas including Strengths Based and Reflective Listening Practice and Focused Acceptance Commitment Therapy and Trauma-Focused Acceptance Commitment Therapy and Bicultural Supervision.

My approach in Te Ao Māori Centered Design includes Tikanga, Kawa, Intention this combines Mātauranga Māori, Maramataka, Te Taiao, Rongoā Māori, Taonga Pūoro and HĀ breathwork techniques and healing providing balance and harmony combining ancient indigenous mātauranga with modern science and technology.   It is important to build relationships and understanding Atua through wairuatanga to connect spiritual, physical, mental and whānau wellbeing.

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I have extensive personal, professional, cultural experiences in both Aotearoa and the United Kingdom.  My travels include many memorable trips one in particular was travelling through Europe into Russia and on the Silk Route by train, taxi, camel and buses.  I have been blessed to have also travelled to various places through kapahaka and performed in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Europe, Asia, Canada and China.  

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I acknowledge my parents Nevel and Pirihira Neilson for their love and compassion for installing the importance of relationships, their work ethic and drive to aspire to whatever we dreamed we could be.   Lasty, I recognize ngā Taonga tuku iho o ngā Tupuna – Treasures Left to Us by our Ancestors.