Secure Beginnings with Anne-Marie Hicks.

Fostering security in parent-child relationships around West Auckland

Hello and welcome to my home page. I am a registered Child Psychotherapist with over 25+ yrs experience. Those years have seen me work in various settings across the child mental health sector, such as, in-patient, out-patient, child trauma and eating disorders. For the past 15 years however, my work has focused on infant mental health and strengthening the relationship between caregivers and their infant/child. I use the Circle of Security model a lot in my work, because I believe (and know), that the coupling of psychoeducation and reflection, fosters parental capacity.

It has been a sense of pride to have published some New Zealand data on the model, in the Journal of Attachment and Human Development in 2020.

Qualifications

  • Graduate Diploma in Clinical Child Psychotherapy 1999
  • Registered Psychotherapist with Child and Adolescent Specialism.
  • Circle of Security – Parenting (COS P) facilitator, certified in 2011
  • Circle of Security – Intensive (COS I) facilitator, certified in 2015
  • Approved Circle of Security Supervisor 2021
  • Circle of Security Classroom (COS C) facilitator, certified in 2025
Fostering security in parent-child relationships around West Auckland

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