Editorial Team
Journal Editors
Dr Peter Bray (Bethlehem Tertiary Institute, BTI)
Dr Janet May (University of Auckland, UoA)
Dr Shanee Barraclough (University of Canterbury, UoC)
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Editorial Board
Margaret Agee PhD, private practitioner, Auckland
Kathie Crocket PhD, Research Associate University of Waikato
Judith Graham PhD, private practitioner, Whakatane
Judi Miller PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Canterbury
Rachael Pond PhD, Senior Lecturer, Master of Counselling, Massey University
Brian Rodgers PhD, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland
Keith Tudor PhD, Professor of Psychotherapy Auckland University of Technology
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Brief biographies: Members of Editorial Board
Margaret Agee is a Life Member of NZAC. In the late 1970s and 1980s she was a school counsellor, a private practitioner, then counsellor in a polytechnic. She then became a counsellor educator at the University of Auckland where she held this role for 30 years. Her particular interests and publications include counselling in Pacific communities, professional ethics, school counselling, and loss and grief. Between 2008 and 2018 she co-edited the Journal with Philip Culbertson.
Kathie Crocket is a Life Member of NZAC. She was a counsellor educator at the University of Waikato for almost three decades. Her own writing has focused on Narrative Therapy and professional supervision, and she has undertaken collaborative writing with students and colleagues.
Judith Graham initially worked as a primary school teacher and her first introduction to the field of counselling was in the 1980s, training as a tutor in human relations with what was then Marriage Guidance. Keeping her interest in working with children and young people, for the last 25+ years she has worked in child and adolescent mental health, and as a school counsellor. She now works as a supervisor in private practice. Judi Miller is a Life Member of NZAC. She began her professional career as a Physical Education teacher and a Vocational Guidance Counsellor. She was a counsellor educator at the University of Canterbury for 30 years. Her research interests, student supervision and publications have focused on counselling professionalisation, social constructionism and solution-focused counselling.
Rachael Pond has been a human development lecturer and counsellor educator at Massey University for about 10 years, with a key role being the coordination and supervision of Masters’ students’ research projects in counselling. Her research interests and supervision span a range of areas, including trauma and adversity, grief and loss, self-harm, neurodivergence, and client experiences of counselling. This work is underpinned by a strengths-based lens that foregrounds meaning-making, personal and relational resources, and adaptive processes alongside challenges.
Keith Tudor began his professional career as a social worker and youth counsellor in the early 1980s in the UK. He was subsequently a psychiatric social worker, psychotherapist, supervisor, and education/trainer. He emigrated/immigrated to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2009 to take up a position in the Department of Psychotherapy at Auckland University of Technology where, since 2015 he has been Professor of Psychotherapy and, since 2020, co-Lead of Moana Nui Psychological Therapies Research Group.
Brian Rodgers is senior lecturer on the counsellor education programmes at the University of Auckland. Brian has been involved with counsellor education since 2001 at several institutions in the UK and Australia before coming home to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2015. His research interests include person-centred and experiential counselling, pluralistic practice, technology and counselling, and decolonising approaches.
