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Meet Our Team

"Diversity in all its forms is the path to greatness."
James D Wilson

Staff

Vanisri Mills

Director

Kaoru Tsukigi

Team Leader

Qiujie (Jessie) Zhu

Finance Officer/Operations Coordinator

Nishanthi 
Kariyapperuma, PhD

Research Officer/Project Coordinator

Professional Counsellors

Sunjin Heo

Korean & English
MNZAC/DAPAANZ

Vanisri Mills

Tamil & English
MNZAC

Kaoru Tsukigi

Japanese & English
MNZAC

Dunuvila Metteyya

Sinhalese & English
MNZAC

Ajay Kumar

Hindi, Punjabi & English
Registered Addiction Practitioner / DAPAANZ

Laura 
Hurtado-Roberts

Spanish & English
MNZAC

Jawahir Jama Ahmed

English, Somali and Amharic
Provisional Member of NZAC/DAPAANZ

Gaayathri Nair

English
MNZAC

Karina Vaccarezza

Spanish & English
Provisional Member of NZAC

Kavita Ram

Hindi, Fiji Hindi & English
MNZAC

Maria Bacal

Bisaya, Tagalog & English
Provisional Member of NZAC

Ka Wai (Ray) Law

Cantonese, Mandarin & English
ANZASW

Indu Singh

Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu & English
MNZAC

Jaslyn Geng

Mandarin & English
Provisional Member of NZAC

Psychologists

Komala Pather

Clinical Psychologist
English
NZCCP

Areej Arif 

Educational Psychologist
Arabic & English
NZPB

Practicum Counsellors

Daisuke Nakaura

Japanese & English

Rex D’Costa

Hindi, Marathi, Konkani & English

Board of Trustees

Jennifer Field

Chairperson

Steven Donald

Vice Chairperson

Foster Shek

Treasurer

Jo de Lisle

Trustee

Ninitha Koya

Treasurer

Victoria Mann

Trustee

Fariba Mostafa

Trustee

Ethnic Advisory Committee

Wang Yi

Dr. Gauri 
Nandedkar

Elkin Solano

Jenny Janif

Mira Arif

Volunteers

Natasha Miranda

Content Creator

Jeanie Holland

Content Creator