Meet Steph Whitehouse
Steph provides compassionate, culturally safe baby loss counselling for parents, partners, and whānau across New Zealand. Her approach is gentle, collaborative, and grounded in respect, creating a space where every person's story can be shared without judgement and at their own pace. Whether your loss is recent or many years ago, you will be welcomed with warmth, dignity, and genuine care.
Steph’s Approach
Every counselling relationship is unique. Steph's approach is grounded in compassion, collaboration, and cultural safety, creating a space where your grief can be explored at your own pace.
Gentle, Supportive Care
Every session is guided by your needs, giving you the space to share, reflect, and move through grief at your own pace.
Culturally Safe Counselling
Your identity, whakapapa, spirituality, values, and worldview are welcomed and respected throughout every session.
Grief Without Expectations
There is no right or wrong way to grieve. Counselling offers a calm space where emotions are welcomed without pressure or judgement.
Inclusive & Welcoming Care
Supporting parents, partners, whānau, LGBTQIA+, multicultural, blended, and faith-diverse families with dignity and respect.
Lived Understanding
Steph’s work is shaped by professional training and her own lived experience of baby loss and grief. Having lost seven children, she understands first-hand the heartbreak, uncertainty, isolation, and courage it can take to continue forward after loss.
Her journey has shown her how important it is to have a space where grief is welcomed, babies are remembered, and each person’s story is honoured. She understands the difficult decisions, medical appointments, anniversaries, milestones, and the experience of carrying profound love and sorrow at the same time.
Steph does not centre her own story in counselling. Instead, it quietly informs the compassion, steadiness, and understanding she brings to each session.
Her experience is not the focus of the work—it is the quiet foundation beneath it.
A Place of Belonging
Honouring Culture, Identity, and Whānau
Steph’s practice is grounded in cultural safety, dignity, and respect. Counselling honours the identity, whakapapa, beliefs, values, spirituality, and lived experiences each person brings.
Partnership
Walking alongside each person and whānau with openness, collaboration, dignity, and respect.
Identity & Whakapapa
Honouring culture, language, spirituality, relationships, values, and lived experience.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi
Guided by partnership, protection, and participation, with respect for Māori identity and cultural wellbeing.
Everyone Is Welcome
Welcoming Māori, Pasifika, multicultural, LGBTQIA+, blended, faith-diverse, and other families.
Every story deserves to be heard. Every identity deserves to be respected. Every whānau deserves a place where they feel they belong.
When You’re Ready, Support Is Here
You don’t need to have the right words or know exactly where to begin. Reaching out is enough.