National Executive

National Treasurer

Alastair Crocket
EdD, NZAC Life Member 

treasurer@nzac.org.nz

I returned to National Executive as Treasurer after an absence of several years. I enjoy giving something back to the organisation which has offered me so much over 30 plus years.

Otago Southland Regional Representative

James Howey

james.howey@nzac.org.nz

Phone: 021 400 674

Originally from Waimate in South Canterbury, I have extensive clinical experience over a period of 30 years within a variety of Counselling and Education Institutions in both Australia and New Zealand. I have completed a Masters in Clinical Counselling, with a focus on Family Therapy, Couples Therapy and Group Work from the University of New England, Australia, and a postgraduate Bachelor in Counselling from the same University. I currently work as a clinical counsellor across several Schools in Dunedin, as well as a Private Practice located in central Dunedin. I am currently the Otago and Southland Regional Representative on National Executive. I am passionate about good and robust governance that allows NZAC to set its direction well into the future. It is a privilege to serve the membership in this way.

Miriama Tolo

miriama.tolo@gmail.com 

Kia ora, Talofa,

I am Miriama Tolo, the Wellington, Wairarapa and Kapiti Regional Representative on National Executive since 2019

I am the Regional Manager for WellStop Southern. Our team covers Wairarapa to Kapiti and across the Hutt Valley and Wellington. We work with Adults, Adolescents, Children and their whanau. I have worked at WellStop since mid-2020 as Assistant Manager and then more recently as Regional Manager within a diverse team of Clinicians from differing disciplines. I have worked as a Counsellor, in various agencies, in the community, for courts, at tertiary institutions, PHO and as a private practitioner for the past 20+ years. Completing an undergraduate degree in Counselling with Postgraduate Supervision via Weltec and Health Science at Otago University. I have worked in Wellington for much of my career with an interlude in Auckland for a few years when I thought the weather would be better there. I am a Wellingtonian, from a big family and spent most of my life in the city centre and more recently live in the ‘burbs’. I have a daughter and three very busy and active grandsons. I am active with family and an extended fanau across the Pacific rim which ensures that life is rarely boring and travel is necessary.

Maria Reynolds 

reynoldsmaria17@gmail.com 
Phone: 027 620 9799

I have been a member of NZAC since 1996. I have been the Waikato/Tauranga Regional Representative on National Executive since 2018. I am also a member of the NZAC Māori Roopu.

I live in Hamilton and have over 25 years of counselling experience. Most of that time I worked as a Student Counsellor at Waikato University.
I offer cultural supervision to those seeking NZAC membership because people are priceless and problems are costly.
Narrative Therapy; Family Therapy; Māori models of therapy is what I integrate into my counselling practice. Since January 2018, I work privately and have registered with the Family Court, ACC sensitive claims, and Vitae.

He aha te mea nui o te ao. He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
"What is the greatest thing in the world, it is people it is people it is people."