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Marguerite Laing

Psychotherapy & Counselling

Free Your Mind, Your Heart, Your Life

 

Through exploring your lived and felt experiences lies the possibility for profound change. In our work together, difficulties become doorways to deeper understanding, liberating emotional and psychological spaciousness. Resilience, clarity, and vitality are restored.

My approach, integrating Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with existential insights gained through ten years of experiential training with R.D. Laing, creates a sanctuary where healing emerges organically. Drawing from both Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy understanding and existential philosophy, I guide you through the intricate landscapes of consciousness, exploring the architectural patterns and beliefs that shape your experience.

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Specialties

Anxiety in all its forms –
Melancholia and ennui –
Existential angst –
Self-esteem and authentic presence –
Relationship dynamics –
Complex grief –
Food and body wisdom –
Professional evolution –
Redundancy, Anxiety & AI –

My practice integrates

– Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy insights
– Existential-phenomenological approaches
– R.D. Laing’s revolutionary approach to
consciousness and healing
– Neuroscience and Neuroplasticity
– Chinese Medicine’s holistic wisdom
– Deep awareness of gut-brain connection
– Environmental and nutritional wellbeing
– Yoga and meditation

In our sessions, we attend to the full landscape of your experience—body, heart, mind, and your connection to the world around you.

Whether you’re struggling with the winds of anxiety or moving through life’s currents, our work together honors the whole ecosystem of your being.

For professionals in highly demanding roles, this approach offers a way to engage differently with complexity, bringing careful attention to how pressure, challenge, presence, and possibility coexist.

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About

I have been in private practice in Auckland for twenty-five years and work with individuals and couples from a wide range of cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. I am of particular help to medical and similar professionals in extremely high-stress environments.

My training integrates Counselling, Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with experiential learning gained through a decade of work alongside R.D. Laing, whose pioneering approach to existential Psychiatry profoundly shaped my therapeutic perspective. This unique combination allows me to draw from both Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy depth understanding and existential attention to lived experience.

My overseas training has been diverse and includes principles of Chinese Medicine, Network Chiropractic, Nutrition and Mental Health. For many years I have also taught yoga and mindfulness.

I contributed to the book R.D. Laing, Creative Destroyer, and co-produced the Canadian video: Did you use to be R.D. Laing?

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Marguerite Laing

Counsellor specialising in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy & Existential
Approaches
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Psychotherapy
Counselling
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Professional Development

Contact

Based in Ponsonby and Titirangi, I provide Psychotherapy and Counselling in Auckland for individuals and couples. I specialise in supporting people through anxiety, complex grief, mood, eating and relationship struggles. My approach integrates Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Neuroscience, and the wisdom of mind–body practices. Clients often describe our work together as a sanctuary for healing, clarity and renewal.

Please call or email to arrange an in-person or online appointment via Zoom, Teams, or FaceTime. I work in many time zones.

(+64) 021 208 7000
MargueriteLaing@gmail.com
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Vermont Street Specialists
25 Vermont St., Ponsonby
And Titirangi, Auckland
New Zealand