ABOUT US
Why Choose the Hart Space For Your Healing Journey?

Meet the Hart Space team of Counsellors, Therapists

Why us?

Hart space is your home for self-discovery and emotional growth. Offering support, sessions, and services that promote your emotional wellbeing.

Discover what makes the Hart Space different. Compassion. Experience. Genuine connection. And a team that cares. Meet the Director, Katy Hart, and her experienced team of counsellors and therapists. Experts in your emotional wellbeing including offering counselling, counselling in schools, and professional supervision.

Meet Katy Hart

Katy Hart Director of Hart Space

I am trained in narrative therapy which acknowledges that we are experts of our own lives, and the problem is the problem; the person is not the problem.

​I will support you by offering a safe, confidential and non-judging space to work through problems that might be trying to get in the way of your well being.

I am a Professional Counsellor located in beautiful Gisborne, New Zealand and a Full Member of the  New Zealand Association of Counsellors (NZAC).

Qualifications:

  • Master of Counselling degree

  • Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Psychology

  • Certificate in Business Management

  • Certificate in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) 

  • Katy Hart, Counsellor and Director at Hart Space Gisborne

Meet the Team

  • Sonya Cash Hart Space

    Sonya Cash

    Social Worker
    I am a fully registered Social Worker with over 20 years practice experience and offer professional supervision to Social Workers and Kaiāwhina.

    I hold a BA (Psychology), Masters of Applied Social Work, a Certificate in Professional Supervision, and am a member of ANZASW.

  • Jessica Proudfoot Hart Space

    Jessica Proudfoot

    Social Worker

    I am a registered Social Worker and have well over 10 years experience working with tamariki and whānau in the Tairāwhiti region.

  • Haupai Ngata Hart Space

    Haupai Ngata

    Social Worker

    Kia Ora, 
    Ko Hikurangi te maunga
    Ko Waiapu te awa 
    Ko Horouta te waka
    Ko Rahui te marae 
    Ko Ngati Porou te Iwi
    Ko Haupai Ngata tōku ingoa
    Nō Tūranganui-a-Kiwa ahau

    My name is Haupai Ngata, friends and family call me Hope. I am a registered Social Worker with 4 years' experience working whānau and Tamariki within Tūranganui-a-Kiwa. 

  • Nikki O'Connor

    Nikki O'Connor

    Arts Therapist

    Ko Hikurangi te maunga
    Ko Waiapu te awa 
    Ko Ngāti Porou te iwi
    Ko Horouta te waka
    Ko Hinemaurea te marae 
    Ko Nikki O’Connor tōku ingoa
    Nō Tūranganui-a-Kiwa ahau

    I am an arts therapist with a background in education. As an arts therapist I use creative modalities such as visual arts, music/sound, sandplay, drama and movement as therapeutic tools. 

    Qualifications:

    • Master of Arts in Arts Therapy (Clinical)
    • Graduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning (Primary)
    • Bachelor of Arts (Te Reo Māori)