With more than a decade of experience across mental health, addiction, kaupapa Māori services, residential rehabilitation, and clinical leadership, Chris provides culturally grounded supervision for practitioners seeking to strengthen their clinical confidence, deepen reflective practice, and enhance culturally responsive care.

Chris has held senior clinical and leadership roles across Aotearoa and is the founder of Recovery Street, an award-winning kaupapa Māori therapeutic arts initiative recognised nationally for its innovation in addiction recovery. He has presented nationally and internationally on addiction recovery, lived experience leadership, kaupapa Māori practice, and the use of creative arts as a pathway to healing.

His approach weaves:

• Te Ao Māori
• Pūrākau
• Narrative Therapy
• Trauma-informed Practice
• Reflective Clinical Practice

Chris draws equally from lived experience, professional training and leadership within the addiction and mental health sector; providing supervision that is practical, honest and restorative for:

• Addiction Practitioners
• Mental Health Clinicians
• Social Workers
• Peer Support Workers
• Youth Workers
• NGO Leaders
• Emerging Clinical Leaders
• Kaupapa Māori Practitioners