Our people
Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi
With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive
Meet our CPW Team
Our Board
ChildPlayWorks is a Charitable Trust. The Trustee Board is made up of key people in the community who hold skills and experience relevant and appropriate to ChildPlayWorks’ philosophy, goals and purposes.
Consulting Faculty
Consultation for programme development and training facilitation is provided with international experts in CCPT for ongoing support of the Childplayworks Clinical Play Therapy Training Programme and for the development of Child-Centered Play Therapy within New Zealand.
External Presenters
We are delighted to have experts in the fields of children’s psychology and psychotherapy present at our professional development workshops.
Supervisors
ChildPlayWorks offers play therapy interns clinical supervision with national and international supervisors of the highest calibre.
Quality Advisement, Funding and Administration
We have an amazing team of professionals who work diligently behind the scenes to oversee processes, assessment and moderation, apply for funding which is vital for our work as a charitable trust, and manage administration, communications, and more.
Our Board
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Tyra Jacobsen - Chair
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Dr.Fiona Langridge
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Zac Taylor
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Tracey Crouchman
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Megan Longman
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Judi Jacobsen
Programme Developers & Trainers, Consulting Faculty, External Presenters, & Supervisors
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Judi Jacobsen
Programme Developer, Trainer, Faculty
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Dr.Bill Nordling
Programme Developer & Trainer, Faculty, Consulting Faculty, International Presenter, Supervisor (US)
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Nancy Cochran
Consulting Faculty, International Presenter, Supervisor (US)
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Dr.Jeff Cochran
Consulting Faculty, International Presenter (US)
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Frankie Dean
Trainer, Supervisor (NZ)
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Natalie Astin
Trainer, Supervisor (NZ)
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Dr.Kathryn Sleet
Supervisor (UK)
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Marg Moroney
Supervisor (NZ)
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Mike Payne
Supervisor (NZ)
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Melanie Gilbert-De Rios
Supervisor (NZ)
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Kate Scott
Supervisor (NZ)
The Back-Office Dream Team
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Jolene and Tash - Admin Collective
Jolene and Tash from Admin Collective have picked up the lion’s share of Administration since Gretchen’s maternity leave. They are a team of Virtual Assistants offering administration support by being that extra pair of hands to amplify our productivity.
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Gretchen
Gretchen is the Administration Manager (maternity leave) for ChildPlayWorks. She has years of administration experience in in the corporate banking world in the UK and loves being able to use her varied skillset to help the children of New Zealand.
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Brigitte
Brigitte assists in Administration for ChildPlayWorks. Brigitte brings a wealth of administration experience from her previous corporate roles in New Zealand and internationally. Brigitte is a super-mamma to her three rapidly growing boys and loves trail-running.
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Stacey Ward
Stacey is our Funding Manager and her experience and depth of knowledge and expertise about funding applications and processes has been absolutely invaluable. We are thankful for her tireless work on CPW’s behalf. If Stacey had not been on board to support our applications we would not have achieved the funding success we have seen to date.
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Tracey Crouchman
Alongside being a full-time therapist, Tracey is our social media manager extraordinaire. We are so thankful for Tracey’s work to raise awareness of Child Centered Play Therapy and our services available across the motu.