A range of governments have flip flopped on mental health funding for years.  I joined Tim Beveridge on Sunday the 25th of May, on the Weekend Collective Health Hub, to talk about the potential loss of Segar House, and the wider funding issues in the mental health service. To listen to the show, click here… Read more

This interview aired last Monday, the 28th April, 2025 on RNZ click here to see the original story… Listen to the interview below   For decades Segar House has helped people in Auckland experiencing self-harm, early life trauma, long-standing depression or chronic suicidality. It offers a publicly-funded, intensive psychotherapy day programme – the only one of its kind Read more

To email Minister of Mental Health Matt Doocey, click here… Last week it was announced to the clinical team at Segar House – Rauaroha – the specialist psychotherapy service in Auckland, – that they were to be shut down. What is Segar House? It’s a highly skilled team of therapists that provide treatment for the Read more

Interview aried Monday the 28th of April, 2025 Read more

To download and view the Segar House Change Proposal click here… Read more

Story by Anna Whyte, from the Post. Click here for original story (paywalled)…. The proposed closure of an intensive mental health service is “insulting nonsense”, according to one advocate, and news to the minister in charge, who found out on the day The Post put in a request for comment. Te Whatu Ora – Health NZ proposed Read more

For the original piece in the NZ Herald, click here… The recent worldwide success of the Netflix drama Adolescence has caused a very public debate about the struggles of growing up in 2025. It’s easy to see it as a call to take smartphones off teenagers. But Adolescence is not actually a show about the evils of the internet Read more