Tiny Bird Therapy are moving!
From April 2025 we will be located in the Wānaka region. Contact for further details.
Sometimes life throws you curveballs. You can be cruising along and all of a sudden you’re on struggle street, juggling things you didn’t see coming. Or things creep up on you slowly and what used to be easy now feels harder than it should be.
Our Services
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Therapy sessions
Therapy sessions are an opportunity to develop an understanding of how the issues in our life have taken over. Sometimes having another set of eyes on the problem can help you to see things in a new light. Areas that we are able to help with include: low mood, worry/anxiety, anger, relationship issues, self-harm, grief, substance use, and living with psychosis.
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Walk & Talk therapy
If sitting in a room talking about the hard stuff feels a bit too much there is the option of using movement to diffuse some of this tension. For those clients being seen at our Wānaka rooms there is the option, weather permitting, of spending the session walking outside.
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Professional Supervision
Supervision is a space to continue your professional development through the process of reflecting on your practice in a way that enhances your knowledge, skills, and competence as a social worker.
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LGBTQIA+ safe space
Our therapy sessions are a safe space for LGBTIQA+ clients and their allies.
Figuring out what to do about it can feel overwhelming. Sometimes our usual strategies don’t seem to shift things. Sometimes, despite all our efforts, we end up in a worse place than where we started.
At Tiny Bird Therapy we may be small but we can help people tackle the big problems in life.
Meet Bridget
Bridget Orchard (she/her) is a social work therapist with 15 years experience working in Specialist Mental Health and Primary Health settings in both Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia.
She graduated from the University of Canterbury in 2010 with a Bachelor in Social Work (First Class Hons) and the following year completed a Post-Graduate Certificate in Allied Mental Health and Addictions through Auckland University of Technology. Bridget has continued her professional development since graduating, with a focus on several different therapeutic modalities including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and most recently, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Within the therapeutic space, Bridget uses compassion, humour, and collaboration to help clients learn to disrupt unhelpful ways of thinking and living.
Alongside her private work in Wānaka, Bridget is also a Brief Intervention Counsellor in Cromwell , providing mental health support in a community setting. Outside of work, Bridget likes to spend her time in the outdoors and is a self-proclaimed ‘bird nerd”.
