Financial support for our Pasifika COUNSELLING (Tala'aga) service

Tala’aga Counselling Ltd (Tala’aga) is a Pasifika Counselling service which was established in March 2022.

Services are:

- Domestic and Family Harm Counselling

- Grief & Trauma counselling

- Adolescent counselling

- Mental Health Counselling

- General Counselling.

Tala’aga provides face to face, online or telephone counselling including:

- Attentive listening to the client’s journey, history, family name (Whanau/Aiga), iwi/nu’u/village and community.

- Counselling Therapeutic Approach (CTA), person-centred and narrative therapy

- Exploring the past, addressing the present issues, and working towards future hope and solutions to their narrative.

Tala’aga is passionate about supporting our Indigenous Pasifika community in this area of counselling. There is a shortage of male Indigenous Pasifika Counsellors. As a Pasifika male counsellor, I understand the cultural protocols and apply them to my practice. I am relational and culturally responsive and I speak both English and fluently in my Samoan language. The demand for counselling is enormous and Tala’aga offers a service that will benefit many Indigenous Pasifika community as a whole.

We have been operating for 1 ½ years now and there’s been a huge demand for our counselling service which has restricted us in moving forward due to limited resources. We are reaching out for sponsorships to provide for the below resources and others.