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ThinkWell brings together four main approaches to wellness: Professional Support (Supervision & Coaching) Services, Onsite Wellness Services, Counselling, and Training Services. The aim of our organisation is to bring and enhance wellness within the everyday workplace, with an emphasis not only on being well, but also staying and remaining well.
ThinkWell has a variety of consultants working both from their own private practices, as well as a number of consultants working onsite with large organisations. Each consultant is working to increase the awareness and to emphasise the importance of personal and professional health and well-being. Each consultant promotes and develops the passion and goals of ThinkWell by maintaining the values and professionalism that originally brought the founders of the company together—by having a shared belief, trust, integrity and passion for wellness.
Leadership Team
Jason Brennan
Jason is a psychotherapist, counsellor, coach and supervisor working in private practice in Wellington, New Zealand. He is originally from Ireland, where he began his training as a psychotherapist and completed a BA in Psychoanalysis and a Certificate in Humanities. After moving to Wellington in 2000, he continued his studies and completed his training as a psychotherapist by specialising in a theory based on effective communication between individuals, called Transactional Analysis (T.A.).
He has been working as a therapist since 2003 and made the move into coaching and supervision to help support individuals more effectively within their workplace. His motivation is to help individuals to develop and maintain healthy communication with other colleagues and with clients, to avoid unnecessary stress in their roles, and to more easily have the ‘difficult’ conversations – especially related to challenging certain behaviours or to increase performance.
Pete Roe
Pete is a Marist, born in Wellington, New Zealand. After the completion of his training at the Marist Seminary in Napier, he was able, through his chaplaincy positions with the Royal NZ Navy and NZ Police Force, to begin to introduce the concept of an integrated wellness service into these workplaces.
During that time he also continued his studies and completed a degree in post graduate studies in Organisational Management and Administration through Massey University, Auckland. Along with a number of others in the Marist community, he developed the City Ministry as an organisation focused on health, support and well-being in the city and within businesses. For the past 15 years, he has continued his onsite work for a number of organisations in Wellington, such as Wellington Free Ambulance, NZ Fire Service and Lifeflight NZ. He is also a trained and experienced coach and supervisor.
Vanessa Regan
Vanessa is a Learning and Development and Change Management Specialist running a consultancy business in Wellington, New Zealand. Her experience is in organisational change and the design, development and delivery of training programs. She was originally introduced to organisational change and training within a call centre environment, exposing her to the worlds of customer services, sales, and finance.
Since arriving in New Zealand in 2000, she has worked with numerous organisations in the public and private sector, including Telecom New Zealand, Kiwibank, Bank of New Zealand, ACC, and the Department of Corrections, and continues to be involved with many of these organisations through her change management, training and facilitation work. She has always been passionate about learning and empowering people - advocating for each person's ability to be proactive in their work environment as well as in their own lives.
A Sampling of Our Consulants Profiles
Nicola Lowery - Wellington
Nicola has five years’ experience coaching as an in-house consultant at a UK mobile provider. There are two phases to her background: when she first left university, she trained and worked as a Chartered Accountant. She spent six years working in finance with a variety of organizations and ended up in the Telecommunications Industry, where she embarked upon the second phase of her career: Change Management. It was within this phase that she discovered her natural ability as a coach. She works with a strong methodology which included stakeholder management, communication and business engagement. Using these skills, she successfully coaches others to achieve their goals. She has worked with a variety of teams and managers at many levels.
Diane Smith – Christchurch
Diane has been working as an Independent Contractor since October 2007 and completed contract work with other providers such as Career Analysts in Auckland, Career Balance in Christchurch, and Kea Education Trust, also in Christchurch. She is an internationally qualified Meta Coach and Team Coach as well as having NLP qualifications that underpin her coaching. She has a collaborative, facilitative, people-orientated coaching style. She spends time getting to know the client and creating an open coaching space. Her approach is to reflect to them in real time their responses, thinking and behavioural patterns. She also enables the client to search for and expand their own ability to respond. She gives feedback that is sensory-specific and enables clients to be able to integrate and make changes on which they are focusing.