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About Me - Cherene
Ko Mātaatua raua Ko Horouta ōku waka
Ko Whakataha raua Ko Hikurangi ōku maunga
Ko Waitangi raua Ko Waiapu ōku awa
Ko Ngāti Rehia, Te Whiu, Ngāti Hineira, Ngāti Hine Ngāti Rangi ōku hapū
Ko Ngāpuhi nui tonu raua Ko Ngāti Porou ōku iwi
Ko Nevel Neilson raua ko Pirihira Nukunuku ōku mātua
Ko au tēnei ē tū Cherene Neilson-Hornblow ahau
Mauri ora tēnā koutou katoa
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.
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.
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.
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.
"The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away"
- Pablo Picasso
Professional Membership
Taraipuinara Whakatika Kaimahi Hauora - Nursing tribunal member of Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal New Zealand (HPDT)
Taraipuinara Whakatika Kaimahi Hauora- Māori Ropū Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal New Zealand (Māori ropū HPDT)
Professional Qualification
Master Applied in Nursing (MA Applied)
Post Graduate Diploma Bicultural Supervision (PG Dip)
Post Graduate Diploma in Nursing – clinical pharmacology, assessment and clinical decision making, advanced assessment and therapeutic intervention in Mental Health (PG Dip Clinical)
Trauma-Focused Acceptance Commitment Therapy (TFact)
Beginners & Brief Intervention Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Diploma in Rongoā Māori (TWOA)
Hot Stones Massage Therapy (Holistic Health Therapy)
Certified as follows - MA Nursing, Puna Rahi Expert, PGDipHSc, PG Adv, BN Specialist MH, MHN Specialty, NESP, RCpN, Introduction Supervision, PGDip Bicultural Supervision, ACT beginners, Brief Intervention ACT, FACT, TFact, Safe Practice Effective Communication (SPEC), Diploma in Rongoā Māori, Rongoā Māori Certificate, Hot Stones Massage Therapy Certificate.
Professional Registration
ACC Registered Rongoā Māori Practitioner (ACC accredited)
Nursing & Midwifery Council United Kingdom (NMC)
Te Kaunihera Tapuhi o Aotearoa -Nursing Council of New Zealand (NCNZ)
Te Kaunihera o Ngā Neehi Māori -National Council of Māori Nurses (TKNNM)
College of Nurses Aotearoa