Kia ora
Taku kōpere āniwaniwa i te rangi, tāwhana kau ana i runga i ngā maramara o Muriwhenua.
Tūtuki noa ki ngā tai māpunapuna i hoea i a Kurahaupo. Tū tonu ki uta, Ko Waimanoni, ko Mahimaru, ngā whare marumaru whakatipuranga e noho haumaru ana a Ngāi Takoto. Ko Tūwhakatere, te tangata i tū. “He iti marangai, tū ana te pāhukahuka, he iti pioke nō Rangaunu, he au tōna”
Hokianga Whakapau Karakia te wai karanga ki Ngatokimatawhaorua. Ki reira, tū tonu te pūtake maunga ko Whakatere, e whakaruruhau ana i te papa o ngā whare tipuna ko Tahekeroa, Ko Tuhirang, ki te kārangaranga o Ngāpuhi.
Ko au ko Reitu, ko tēnei taku mihi nunui ki a koutou.
About Reitu
I have worked within Māori Mental Health for over 20 years, holding roles across cultural support, cultural advisory, and cultural supervision within both Māori and mainstream clinical settings.
My practice is grounded in tikanga Māori, and I work as a competent te reo Māori advocate within therapeutic, organisational, and educational spaces. I am also a kaikaranga, and I carry the ceremonial and relational responsibilities of this role into my work — shaping how I understand presence, transition, safety, and connection.
I am a kaiako at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa (Raranga), and weaving is not only a cultural practice for me but a living methodology through which I understand healing, relationship, and transformation. I actively integrate raranga into my therapeutic, educational, and supervisory work as a way of engaging with whakapapa, story, identity, and the restoration of mana.
Over the past decade, I have specialised in the use of psychodramatic method within therapeutic and organisational contexts. I am currently a senior trainee psychodramatist and have been actively practising psychodrama for approximately ten years, integrating this method with te ao Māori to support healing, relational repair, and role development.
I have experience working with Māori communities, as well as within mainstream organisations, and I work at the interface between cultural and clinical worlds with care, integrity, and cultural humility.
For the past ten years, I have provided cultural advice and cultural supervision to clinicians, services, and organisations, supporting culturally responsive and ethically grounded practice. I work alongside practitioners and kiritaki to identify and address cultural, relational, and systemic barriers that may be impacting engagement, safety, and therapeutic progress.
I offer both group and individual supervision, as well as cultural consultation within ACC and other therapeutic frameworks. I support clinicians and kiritaki to navigate complexity, strengthen cultural safety, and restore mana within therapeutic relationships.
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