About Anni
Dr. Anni Hine Moana welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious or stuck. She writes and listens with care, and aims to help clients find clearer ways to cope with stress, anxiety, grief, addiction issues and life changes.
Her style is warm and straightforward so people can begin to breathe and speak about what matters to them. She uses a person-centred way of working that starts with the client's story.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on hearing how life events, relationships and culture have shaped those stories. That makes it easier to separate the problem from the person and to build on existing strengths. Dr Moana also brings cognitive behavioural tools to help with worries and unhelpful thinking.
These practical strategies are used alongside deeper conversation about emotions and attachment when needed. Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas inform work on relationships and on understanding strong feelings. Her practice includes attention to trauma, post-traumatic stress, and issues related to alcohol, other drug use and gambling.
She helps people deal with guilt, shame and low self-esteem, and supports those navigating parenting, career shifts and major life losses. Outside clinical work, she teaches in a Master of Addictive Behaviours program at a university, where she mentors emerging counsellors. This keeps her practice linked to current research while staying rooted in everyday clinical experience.
Dr Moana aims to make counselling a space for being heard and for slow change. She encourages people to start even if they do not have every answer yet.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Dr Moana uses person-centred methods that prioritise listening and following the client's pace. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes sessions around their concerns, whether discussing anxiety, grief or life changes.She also applies cognitive behavioural therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and build practical skills. CBT work online can include short exercises, thought records and behavioural experiments you can try between sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas are used when working with strong feelings and attachment-related issues, helping clients name and work with emotions that get in the way of connection or self-care.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs, and together they will try methods that fit. That collaboration means the style of sessions can change as progress is made or needs shift.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and emotion work, phone calls suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, and live chat or messaging can help with quick reflections or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting and daily life, and allow people to continue care even when routines change.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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