Nanda Fogli Freeman

I walk alongside people in re-authoring their lives in ways that challenge problem-saturated stories and resist the power structures that sustain them. My work is grounded in narrative therapy, critical psychology, and postmodern ideas, particularly Foucault’s concepts of power/knowledge and discourse.

As a Latin American immigrant living in Aotearoa, I bring a decolonising, feminist, and socially just lens to my counselling practice. I am currently researching how neoliberalism shapes subjectivity and the implications this has for therapeutic work, especially when people are positioned as solely responsible for their pain and "recovery". I don't believe in therapy as an individual enterprise but rather a socio-political issue.

Therefore, community is at the heart of everything I do. I believe that the formation and expression of preferred identities happens in relationship: with others, with culture, and with history. People’s lives and struggles make the most sense when understood within their social, political, and cultural contexts.

My practice centers dignity, resistance, and the collective wisdom people carry. Even when that wisdom has been marginalised or dismissed. I am passionate about holding space for the stories that don’t often get told; and for the transformative possibilities that can emerge when those stories are spoken, heard, and honoured.