Traude Leibbrand
Registered Psychologist, Clinical Scope
lic phil I Clin Psych (Zurich). Member of NZPsS.
Traude received her psychology degree at Zurich University, Switzerland. She has practiced as a registered clinical psychologist in New Zealand since 1986. She sees adolescents, adults and couples and has worked extensively in private practice as well as in public health settings.
Apart from working with a wide range of common presenting problems like anxiety, depression, work-related stress, grief etc Traude has a special interest in supporting clients to resolve past or recent trauma and she has extensive training in the treatment of post-traumatic stress following abuse, accident or injury. She is registered as a treatment provider for ACC for clients with a physical injury, for EAP Services and Insurance Companies.
She offers both short-term interventions as well as longer-term psychotherapy, combining relational psychodynamic and trauma-based principles with developmental attachment theory. Traude is also a trained practitioner of Dialectic Behaviour Therapy (DBT). Traude likes to use the first appointment to comprehensively assess the presenting issues and to formulate together with the client a joint plan for treatment.
