New therapeutic practitioners
Abby Gilligan, Simon Dadley Moore and Lolly Dadley Moore. Photo: Neil Wilson.
Three highly complementary therapeutic practitioners will shortly begin operating out of a room at Ginkgo House, 127 Commercial Street.
Abby Gilligan, Simon Dadley Moore and Lolly Dadley Moore will share the room previously occupied by a beauty therapy business.
Abby is a recently graduated counsellor who has been specialising in working with young people in Motueka and in Golden Bay. Simon offers coaching and conflict resolution to young people and their families as well as mediation for couples. Lolly will offer craniosacral therapy.
“I’m returning to work after maternity leave,” said Lolly, “and I’m retiring from massage after doing it for most of my adult life. Craniosacral therapy helps people to switch off the fight or flight impulse and find stillness. It’s especially good for children and babies and works well with people suffering from ADHD or whose thoughts are scattered, jumpy or edgy. It’s nice to be coming back to this room - it used to be mine once when I was doing massage. I’ll be working out of the room every Friday.”
Simon has been providing coaching and mediation over the Hill in Motueka and in Nelson. He will continue to do some work in Nelson but he will also work out of the room at Ginkgo House on Thursdays.
Abby graduated from NMIT last year and is now working on an international course in narrative therapy with the Dulwich Centre in Adelaide.
“People often get to a point where they believe that something is wrong with them,” she says. “Narrative therapy invites them to revise their relationship with the problem and create space by moving the problem outside of them. It allows new solving strategies to be present. It’s great for kids with things like aggression or concentration problems.”
Abby will be at Ginkgo House on Monday and Wednesday mornings and all day Tuesdays. Contact Abby on 027 352 0232 and Lolly and Simon on 525 9577.
Neil Wilson
