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About
​Resolve Counselling.

Hi, I'm Rob McGregor.

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After two and half decades working my own para-medical clinic managing complex injuries to the lower limb, I lost that career due to personal injury.

It meant a few years walking a personal wilderness trying to figure out what life was actually about, and what was important.

However it also gave me time to process the sexual abuse and other events I experienced as a child and young person.

​​I started facing some of my private fears no-one else knew about. 
I started asking myself “Did that really happen?” and “What do I call that?” and “What does the Law call that?” The questions went on and on ...and at times I felt my whole world was falling apart.

I discovered that some of what I thought to be true… wasn’t. And that’s when my real healing started.

​Now I have names for all that stuff and the accurate interpretations. Now I know how to park those ideas and experiences, and it has freed me enormously to engage in life in a much more meaningful manner.​

​I have a gratitude for life and an empathy for others that was not there before. I tell others it was not an easy journey, but with my hand on my heart I can say it has been the most rewarding journey of my life.

My Counselling Background.

My counselling experience started in 1987 when I worked with refugees from Vietnam and the Cambodian Killing Fields. It was here I heard the first-hand accounts of those who witnessed the abuses and murders of others.

This was followed by a short period in 1998 with St Stephan's Society in Hong Kong working with drug addicts, most of whom came from the Triads or similar criminal fraternities.

I then returned to New Zealand and for the following 25 years managed a range of complex injuries, often where people had also experienced personal trauma.

I returned to voluntary part-time counselling, psycho-educational and peer support roles within the community in 2007. This included community-based counselling and counsellor training with Elijah House (2007-2010), and co-facilitating presentations and training programmes with Jubilee Resources, both nationally and in the Caribbean (2010-2015).

I am currently finishing my Bachelor of Counselling degree and awaiting ACC certification. During this time that I joined MOSAIC (male survivors of sexual abuse Trust) in 2017 and have been working with abuse survivors in peer support group work and one-to-one roles.  This has included working with family/whānau and other agencies to make our community safer for all genders and ages.

In general counselling I see adults for a range of issues. I have worked with couples, one-to-one and group-oriented peer support work.

Most of my trauma counselling is with men; this work is important to me as I believe there are fundamental differences between how males and females experience and process trauma. My interests are in counselling and managing trauma, abuse, suicide and grief. ​​

Truth must be welcomed before it can set us free, but sometimes it's a hard friend to live with.

That's why so many prefer the captivity of their delusions, petty rages and selfish behaviours; it's far easier to give into the tantrums or take the prescription meds, than have a confronting yet healing friend in their lives.

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E: rob@resolve-counselling.org
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