Hana Greenfield
Counsellor (Bachelor of Counselling, PG Dip -Trauma Responsive Therapy)
Born and raised in southern India, I have travelled extensively, worked internationally, and now call Tāmaki Makaurau home.
I am an ACC registered, trauma-informed counsellor who works primarily with women and femme-identifying people, with a particular focus on supporting those from racialised communities and women of colour. My practice is shaped by experience working alongside survivors of sexual violence and family violence, and by a deep commitment to offering counselling support that is culturally responsive, grounded, and emotionally safe.
I know both personally and professionally that healing is not linear. As a survivor, I offer counselling that is steady, culturally safe, and centred on dignity and choice.
I am currently completing a Master’s degree in trauma responsive therapy, guided by feminist and Indigenous lenses. My approach is influenced by decolonising, deconstructive, and anti-pathologising frameworks, and I hold care for the ways that traumatic-impact is shaped not only by what has happened to us, but also by power, context, migration, and systems of harm and protection.
Alongside talk therapy, I integrate somatic and body-based approaches, including parts work (IFS & Hakomi informed). This often supports greater internal stability, clarity, and self-trust over time. I am also Brainspotting trained, supporting clients to process trauma in a gentle, paced way that honours readiness and nervous system capacity.
At the heart of my work is supporting people to create internal safety, reconnect with self-trust, and navigate relational rupture and repair with compassion and clarity.
"Trauma is a Greek word for wound. Literally that's what it means. So when you understand that, then you realize...trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you.
....Trauma is not the event that inflicted the wound. So, the trauma is not the sexual abuse, the trauma is not the war. Trauma is not the abandonment. The trauma is not the inability of your parents to see you for who you were. Trauma is the wound that you sustained as a result.
....So my wound wasn't that my mother gave me [away temporarily] to a stranger [when I was a child]. My wound was that I made that mean that I wasn't lovable and I wasn't wanted and I was being abandoned, which is a good thing. Because if the trauma was what happened to you, guess what? It'll never unhappen.
....But if the trauma wound happens inside you, the wound that you're carrying? That can heal at any time."
- Dr. Gabor Maté
“Trauma decontextualized in a person looks like personality. Trauma decontextualized in a family looks like family traits. Trauma decontextualized in people looks like culture.”
- Resmaa Menakem
