Our Team

Staff

Vanisri Mills
Director
Kaoru Tsukigi
Team Leader
Qiujie (Jessie) Zhu
Finance Officer/Operations Coordinator
Nishanthi Kariyapperuma, PhD
Research Officer/Project Coordinator
Clinical Psychologists
Komala Pather
English
NZCCP
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
Areej Arif
Arabic & English

Educational Psychologist

Asma Shah
Dari, Urdu & English

Educational Psychologist

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
Practicum Counsellors
Rachael Cho
Korean & English
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
Victoria Mann
Trustee
Ala Farah
Trustee
Ninitha Koya
Trrustee
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