Murray A. Winn, B.Com, CA(Rtd), ACIS, M.Ed(Counselling), Reg'd Psychotherapist (PB460), MNZAP.

Murray is married to Marti, and the father of three adult children. Following a varied career in accountancy and business, from 1984 he spent three years on the pastoral staff of his then local church, prior to returning to university to complete a masters degree in education. Concurrently he helped establish the Arahura Health Centre in 1986/87.

He regards his clinical practice and training as eclectic, with understandings based around psychodynamic theory (self-psychology and object relations) and a full range of cognitive behavioural approaches. He specialises in somatic illness (i.e. the complex interweaving of deeply buried and unresolved emotional/spiritual conflict, and the emergence of this into physical symptoms/disease processes), and the treatment of trauma, including sexual trauma in both men and women. (He does not work with children). Murray also works across the broad spectrum of individuals' presenting emotional/spiritual/psychological issues. He is again working with couples (though not in association with the Family Court) and continues to offer supervision for other health providers, and in allied fields.

In collaboration with a small NZ-wide group of practitioners ("Personnel Profiles"), Murray has developed comprehensive psychosocial assessment procedures for candidates intending to work in missions, pastoral positions, and other vocations.(Refer to separate description of this service under "Psychosocial Assessment & Supervision")

His current scale of fees ranges from $95-140 (plus GST for Registered Providers), negotiable broadly according to client's circumstances, (which may also determine eligibility for a range of available subsidies). Murray is registered with ACC for his work with the mental injury consequences for survivors of sexual abuse, but along with many other practitioners, continues (late 2011) to reassess on a case-by-case basis, whether or not it will be feasible to accept new clients wishing to access ACC funding under that agency's revised treatment protocols. Enquiries are nevertheless welcome in this regard.

Away from the work of the centre, Murray is a private pilot, breeds sport horses in partnership with Marti, and enjoys living in a rural environment, with all the varied recreational opportunities this has to offer!