How to choose your Ignite support provider

If you’re wanting to give your wellbeing a boost or need some help to get through a difficult time, Ignite Aotearoa’s support providers are here for you.

We have a variety of practitioners on our platform who you can book to see using your subscription tokens. They offer services ranging from talk therapy and counselling, through to career development or support through a redundancy, to financial advice and meditation or yoga training.

Choosing a provider 

Each of our support providers has a biography on their page, so you can learn more about them and how they work, before you decide who you would like to book a session with. You can also search for providers based on the criteria that is important to you.

Booking an appointment with an Ignite support provider does not mean you need to have all your sessions with that one person. If you’d like to book follow up sessions, that’s great! However, if you want to try an appointment with a different provider, that’s fine too. Ignite gives you the choice and flexibility to decide what’s right for you.

Each provider has listed their areas of expertise in their profiles. You will notice that some practitioners have the same specialities, and we believe this offers you greater choice.

We have included some brief descriptions below of the professional groups represented on our platform. Just as each person is unique, so is each of our providers. The most important things when choosing a provider are that you feel comfortable with the person, that they listen to you, that you feel respected, and that their support is useful for you.

Talk therapists

It can be helpful to talk about our challenges with someone who is trained to provide support from a professional perspective. Practitioners with a range of experience provide talk therapy on the Ignite platform, which people may refer to as counselling or therapy. There are a number of tools and techniques that talk therapists use during their work with you. A number of the following professional groups offer talk therapy and you will see when you look at their profiles that a number of different types of therapist have training in the same treatment modalities.

Addiction Practitioners

Addiction practitioners provide information, assessment, treatment and support for a wide range of addictions. These may include alcohol, drugs, gambling, pornography, and other issues. They offer many different treatment options and support. 

Coaches

Coaches use a number of techniques and skills to support people to grow their careers including advice and support for professional development, work performance, relationships, wellbeing and more. Coaching is an empowering process that focuses on supporting people to achieve their aspirations and goals. 

Counsellors

Counsellors use a range of skills and techniques to support people dealing with life’s challenges. Counselling is a supportive process that helps to clarify issues and explore strategies that can assist you to move ahead with your life.

Dietitian

Dietitians provide sound advice around diet and lifestyle, supporting you to address intolerances or specific health concerns and can support you to achieve particular health related goals.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)/Tapping Practitioner

EFT works on all levels of our being and can shift things that talking alone can’t. EFT brings physiological (body functioning) benefits by releasing the emotional load we hold in our bodies and can bring shifts in thinking and feelings.

Financial Advisor and Financial Mentor

A financial advisor is registered and able to provide formal advice, whereas a financial mentor draws on their own experience to support you on your financial journey. They are able to give advice around budgeting, managing debt, savings, retirement planning, and home ownership and more.

Human Resource Consultants

Human resource consultants work with organisations and individuals on organisational reviews and design, change management, management consultancy, employment relations, recruitment and career development.

Meditation Teacher

Meditation and mindfulness can enhance mental health and wellbeing bringing more peace, and happiness to our lives by consciously working with thoughts and emotions in ways that uplift us.

Mentors

Ignite Mentors have significant personal and professional experience they can use to support you. A mentor will talk through issues with you and share their own similar experiences. The benefits of support from someone who has been through what you are going through is well documented. You will see from our mentor’s profiles that they have many areas of specialty that may fit your needs.

Registered Nurses

Nurses practice across a range of areas using their nursing knowledge and professional judgment to assess health needs and provide advice, support, and education to people to manage their health and wellbeing. Many nurses undertake additional education to develop areas of speciality. The nurses providing support to Ignite are able to offer talk therapy in their areas of expertise.

Registered Occupational Therapists

Occupational therapists support people with their wellbeing, recovery, resilience, and functioning to develop a meaningful life by addressing physical or mental health challenges. Occupational therapists who have specialised in mental health are skilled in talking therapies. 

Registered Psychologists

Registered psychologists have advanced university qualifications in the science of psychology. They have expertise in all aspects of psychological functioning, including thoughts, feelings, behaviours, spirituality, and intellectual dimensions. Psychologists assess, advise, and assist people to improve their wellbeing. Their clients include individuals, couples, whānau, organisations, and communities. Psychologists may have a particular scope of practice, such as educational, clinical, or counselling psychology. 

Registered Social Workers

Social workers assist individuals, families and communities to address challenges and enhance wellbeing. Many social workers have undertaken further education and those offering support on the Ignite platform are skilled in talk therapy in their particular areas of speciality.

Supervisor

Supervision is a formal process often used in health and social service sectors to support the development of knowledge and competence and ensure ethical and quality service provision.  Increasingly being used in other sectors, supervision provides an opportunity for staff to reflect on their work, develop skills, increase confidence, reduce stress and have a greater awareness and understanding.  Supervision can lead to better professional relationships and service provision.

Yoga Teachers

There is great evidence around the mental health benefits of yoga. We are fortunate to offer you experienced yoga teachers who provide individual sessions, with a focus on supporting people to manage the impact of life’s challenges, transitions and trauma. Yoga can support the development of stronger mind and body connections and increase your resilience and sense of calm.

All Ignite support providers hold relevant qualifications and have years of professional experience. Registered health professionals are subject to the Health Practitioners Competency Assurance Act (2003) and hold a current annual practising certificate. Our support providers who are not health professionals are required to be members of professional bodies, where applicable, that require ongoing professional development, and all are reference checked and have Ministry of Justice checks completed.

We are committed to providing you with a high quality service and from time-to-time we may seek feedback about your experience with us. Make a booking with one of our support providers today by logging in to your Ignite account here: https://app.ignite.org.nz/home