HELPFUL TIP: Before you apply for funding, please choose and contact a First Steps provider below for an initial conversation. Your chosen provider will then supply you with an official First Steps quotation, or you can complete our Voucher Proposal – you will require one of these for your application.
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Whether you are an emerging entrepreneur, an established business owner, or a business leader our approved providers are here for you!
Leaders also require empathy and support, equal to what they offer their teams. During the current environment that business leaders are operating in, they need to prioritise their health and wellbeing and get the support they need.
One of the many ways we help businesses is by connecting them with a range of wellness providers. These providers can support you with training, support, consultations, stress, and more. Providers are here to support you with depression, stress management, sleep, resilience, fatigue, mindfulness, and anxiety.
Please note: First Steps funding does not cover travel or accommodation.
Therapy / Counselling
Auckland Mental Wellness Centre
Has a team of registered psychologists and psychiatrists, who provide general and specialised mental health assessment, diagnosis and treatment.
Bliss Coaching Psychology
Pamela is an integrative health and positive psychology coach offering one-on-one therapy sessions.
Bread and Pomegranates
Christina Baird is passionate about helping people grow and thrive and is particularly interested in the role of reflective learning for increasing wellbeing, confidence, creativity and resilience.
Clearhead
Get access to 300+ registered NZ mental health and wellbeing professionals that can support your needs either in person or online. Book fully funded sessions now via our easy online system.
Erica Steele
Your professional and development partner. Confidently assisting with a wide range of personal and professional issues.
Fresh Minds
Fresh Minds offer a number of psychological and wellness programs which include individual health coaching and webinars.
Hilary Jackson
Offers a tailored and eclectic programme of 10 conversations designed to assist you in recovering from adversity and learning to manage stress and anxiety. The programme will be interesting, fun, and useful in ALL areas of your life.
Life Coaching East Auckland
Life Coaching East Auckland helps small business owners cope with stress and anxiety, as well as addictive behaviours through hypnotherapy and life coaching skills.
Mindworks
Psychologist Sara Chatwin and the Mindworks Team are based in Auckland. They’ve helped numerous people with confidence building, weight issues, stress management and overall personal development.
Pakuranga Counselling Centre
Pakuranga Counselling Centre have a large team of highly experienced and qualified counsellors, they offer a wide range of services. Open to any person, couple or family who wish to talk through an issue.
Real Therapy
Psychology specialising in holistic health whilst also supporting workplace mental health, wellbeing, and cultivating team building and culture development.
Re-Centre
Re-Centre is a private mental health based clinic. The team is made up of psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and clinical nurse specialists.
Samantha Patel
Samantha is a registered psychologist with over 20 years’ experience. She offers training, consultation, and supervision aimed at creating equity of wellbeing in the workplace.
Talking Matters Counselling
Mark is a registered counsellor with the NZ Association of Counsellors. He can offer in-person sessions (Covid-19 Protection Framework permitting) office based in Parnell, and online.
In-Person / Online Courses
Erica Steele
Your professional and development partner. Confidently assisting with a wide range of personal and professional issues.
Fresh Minds
Fresh Minds offer a number of psychological and wellness programs which include individual health coaching and webinars.
Heart Place
Heart Place with Nurse Jacqui is a holistic Whole-Health coaching practice with a twist.
Humanex
Humanex offer a wide range of workplace wellness programmes, strategies, training, and mentoring. Their workshops include Post COVID Languishing, Mental Health Awareness, Mental Health First Aid, Resilience and many more.
Jess Stuart
Jess delivers online courses and work with businesses globally delivering leadership development, facilitation, change management, mindfulness and resilience training.
Like Never Before
Three-day retreat to understand how your mind works and realise your full potential.
Mindfulness Aotearoa
A hands-on, practical and enjoyable mindfulness program for you to learn tools to manage stress, and improve focus and resilience to support your health and wellbeing (and that of your business!).
Re-Centre
Re-Centre is a private mental health based clinic. The team is made up of psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and clinical nurse specialists.
Resilience Retreats
Three-day intensive resilience training program. Build resilience and learn to cope with overwhelming, mental and emotional pressure.
The Centre for Empowered Eating
Helping people to improve their mental and physical wellbeing without sabotaging their relationship with food or their bodies.
Vitality Unlimited: Resilience Coach
Vitality Unlimited offers three business specific workshops to support wellness and mental health; Doing Well Workshop, Redefining Stress Workshop and Resilience Coaching.
Wellbeing Workshop
Specialising in science-based strategies to reduce stress and enhance health, happiness and performance amid the heady pace of the 21st Century and the global pandemic
Wicked Wellbeing
Wicked Wellbeing offers 1-1 health coaching, an online health and wellbeing membership or the ability to go through a short on line gluten-free course for beginners.
Woo Wellbeing
The love and passion of people, whānau and communities are Tuihana’s inspiration. With her company Woo Wellbeing, Tuihana is well regarded for her innovative wellbeing design, thinking, consultancy & content creation.
Workshops / Programmes
Bread and Pomegranates
Christina Baird is passionate about helping people grow and thrive and is particularly interested in the role of reflective learning for increasing wellbeing, confidence, creativity and resilience.
Co-Pilot
Co-Pilot works with business owners to achieve success while looking after their own mental health and wellbeing offering one-on-one and group training.
Fresh Minds
Fresh Minds offer a number of psychological and wellness programs which include individual health coaching and webinars.
Inner Harmony
Inner Harmony specialises in Holistic Women’s Health and Wellbeing, offering a 1-1 Coaching Programme and a Group Wellbeing Workshop Series which supports ladies with their mental wellbeing and overall health.
Like Never Before
Three-day retreat to understand how your mind works and realise your full potential.
MindSpring
MindSpring offers a half-day workshop that will give business owners the skills and confidence to overcome the stigma of talking about mental wellbeing in the workplace. It’s focused on both self-care and looking after the team.
REMind
REMiND is a mental-wellbeing platform. We educate individuals and companies on the why, how and what of mindfulness and meditation. “
Resilience Retreats
Three-day intensive resilience training program. Build resilience and learn to cope with overwhelming, mental and emotional pressure.
Re-Centre
Re-Centre is a private mental health based clinic. The team is made up of psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and clinical nurse specialists.
Samantha Patel
Samantha is a registered psychologist with over 20 years’ experience. She offers training, consultation, and supervision aimed at creating equity of wellbeing in the workplace.
The Better Sleep Clinic
Registered psychologists who specialise in insomnia, sleep disorders, mental health conditions & wellbeing coaching.
Wellbeing Workshop
Specialising in science-based strategies to reduce stress and enhance health, happiness and performance amid the heady pace of the 21st Century and the global pandemic
Wicked Wellbeing
Wicked Wellbeing offers 1-1 health coaching, an online health and wellbeing membership or the ability to go through a short on line gluten-free course for beginners.
Vitality Unlimited: Resilience Coach
Vitality Unlimited offers three business specific workshops to support wellness and mental health; Doing Well Workshop, Redefining Stress Workshop and Resilience Coaching.
Online Tools
Aunty Dee
A free online tool aiming to help people, particularly Pasifika, work through their problems and discuss their mental health.
Blueprint
The Leading Wellbeing at Work Workshop offered by Blueprint equips managers and leaders to recognise and respond supportively to staff experiencing mental health challenges in the workplace.
Chnnl
Chnnl is a clinically validated app which uses anonymised data to develop wellbeing strategies to improve staff wellbeing, retention, and performance.
Clearhead
Online mental wellbeing platform that provides you with a digital wellbeing assistant, interactive wellbeing tools, and video content to help you improve your mental health and resilience including tips from former All Black, Nehe Milner-Skudder.
Fathers Fono Workshop
Fathers Fono is a parenting workshop aimed at bringing our Pasifika fathers together and supporting each other to be the best Dads we can be.
Good4Work
Discover how to make wellbeing an essential part of how you work, lead and connect. This short quiz helps you and your team rate your workplace and decide where to start.
Hearts and Minds
Hearts and Minds work in the mild to moderate mental wellbeing space, offering a variety of courses around managing stress, depression, anxiety and building resilience.
Ignite
Ignite is a digital employee assistance program that provides access to counsellors, psychologists, and coaches nationwide.
Just a Thought
A free online course to help you tackle worry and stress, so you can take care of your mental and emotional wellbeing.
LeVa: FLO Talanoa
A free workshop for Pasifika suicide prevention; evidence-informed, culturally safe, and designed to be led by the community.
Lifeline Aotearoa
Lifeline offer a series of workshops, webinars and debrief services focusing on building confidence in holding supportive or challenging conversations with distressed staff customers or suppliers.
Mentemia
Led by Sir John Kirwan, Mentemia is your positive partner to mental wellbeing. Get access to world leading, evidence-based tools and techniques to be a more positive, resilient force at work and at home.
New Zealand Curriculum Design Institute
The NZ Curriculum Design Institute offer business leaders four different Te Whare Tapa Rima Five-Sided Home Holistic Health and Wellbeing Programmes and can also custom develop programmes for organisations with specific needs.
Small Steps
The Small Steps website is a place where people of Aotearoa can take small steps on their journey to improve wellbeing.
Te Pou
Te Pou is the New Zealand license holder for mental health first aid, which is a mental health literacy programme. They provide new instructor training, which would allow managers and colleagues to confidently support staff who are experiencing mental health challenges.
Whakatau Mai
The Wellbeing Sessions, by Changing Minds, offers a wide range of free and online wellbeing sessions in real-time, helping to safely support you wellbeing from the comfort of your own space.
Physical Training / Nutrition
Good Ground Wellness
We are offering women in business online courses that run from 9 weeks to 6 months covering all things health and wellness. Leading you on a path to self-discovery, reconnection with self, and shifting away from the mindset that no longer serves you. Jump on a no-obligation, complimentary call to see if we are the perfect fit.
Mahi Yoga
Yoga-based movement therapy and breathwork designed specifically to counter stress, muscle pain, and to promote overall health and wellbeing. Reduce levels of stress hormones, promote emotional resilience, calm and focus.
Natural Ange
In your naturopathic consultation, we’ll explore what measures you need to put in place to achieve wellness and reach your health goals. Using Clinical Naturopathic Medicine (herbal medicine, clinical nutrition and lifestyle measures) and based on current research, we’ll work together to get you on your path to wellness.
The Centre for Empowered Eating
Helping people to improve their mental and physical wellbeing without sabotaging their relationship with food or their bodies.
Wicked Wellbeing
Wicked Wellbeing offers 1-1 health coaching, an online health and wellbeing membership or the ability to go through a short on line gluten-free course for beginners.
Coaching
Bliss Coaching Psychology
Pamela is an integrative health and positive psychology coach offering one-on-one therapy sessions.
Bread and Pomegranates
Christina Baird is passionate about helping people grow and thrive and is particularly interested in the role of reflective learning for increasing wellbeing, confidence, creativity and resilience.
Life Coaching
An 18 week coaching and hypnotherapy package for stress management in East Auckland.
Hilary Jackson
Offers a tailored and eclectic programme of 10 conversations designed to assist you in recovering from adversity and learning to manage stress and anxiety. The programme will be interesting, fun, and useful in ALL areas of your life.
Humanex
Humanex offer a wide range of workplace wellness programmes, strategies, training, and mentoring. Their workshops include Post COVID Languishing, Mental Health Awareness, Mental Health First Aid, Resilience and many more.
Inner Harmony
Inner Harmony specialises in Holistic Women’s Health and Wellbeing, offering a 1-1 Coaching Programme and a Group Wellbeing Workshop Series which supports ladies with their mental wellbeing and overall health.
Internal Strength
Ex-rugby league player and mental health advocate, Paul Whaturia, leads a 10-module course helping participants break the cycle, build self-confidence, and achieve personal goals.
Life Coaching East Auckland
Life Coaching East Auckland helps small business owners cope with stress and anxiety, as well as addictive behaviours through hypnotherapy and life coaching skills.
Love Your Business
Feeling stuck, lost your mojo or need some clarity? Experienced business coaches offering the proven Be Bold in Business mindset programme to help business owners get unstuck and back in-flow
McInnes Associates Ltd
Evidence-based coaching to help you get to where you want to be.
Pure Results
Personalised Business Leadership Coaching which includes tailored one-to-one sessions, full personality profile and debrief, any time access, tailored growth practices and additional resources.
Waking Giants
Waking Giants provides both online and in-person support for business leaders in resilience, human-centered leadership and purposeful strategy for individuals and small groups.
Wicked Wellbeing
Wicked Wellbeing offers 1-1 health coaching, an online health and wellbeing membership or the ability to go through a short on line gluten-free course for beginners.
Zeal Coaching
The support and coaching service that ZEAL offers enables you to prioritise and reclaim your mental and physical wellbeing.
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