About Amanda Jack MNZAC, BA/LLB

Amanda Jack is a mature and experienced counsellor. She trained in psychosynthesis at the Synthesis Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, and is a Certified Psychosynthesis Practitioner. She is also a Member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors.

She currently works for Relationship Services Whakawhanaungatanga, and also maintains a small private practice.

Amanda studied law and Chinese studies at Auckland University, and upon graduation practiced refugee law. She has been consistently interested in cultures and cultural difference, and has travelled widely. She lived for several years in the Pacific Islands, which led her to the study of Te Reo Maori and kapa haka back in Aotearoa New Zealand. She also lived in China, Japan and the USA, and speaks Mandarin and Japanese.

Amanda has worked extensively in amateur drama, both as an actress and as a director. She is also drawn to visual art, and for two years was director of Three Columns Gallery at Harvard University, where she was also employed in a live-in pastoral role tutoring undergraduate students. She has been part of a committed relationship for twenty years, and has two daughters (teen and pre-teen!). She has practiced Zen and Vipassana meditation, and is a keen student of yoga.