About
Think Blue Tree & Mental Health Coaching
Welcome to Think Blue Tree!
At Think Blue Tree, my mission is to provide exceptional Mental Health Coaching that supports individuals on their unique journeys towards mental and emotional well-being so that they can live a rich, fulfilling life with meaning and purpose.
– Patrick
Think Blue Tree Founder
What's in the Name? Why Think Blue Tree?
Think Blue Tree is about managing your mind (Think), making wise choices (Blue), and staying flexible and connected (Tree) β all so you can grow and flourish, no matter what life throws at you.
Think
This is about our unique human ability: we donβt just react, we think. We can observe and reflect on our own thoughts and learn to interact with them. This ability to step back and notice our mindβs chatter gives us the power to make wiser choices and live in a way that really matters.
Blue
Blue is often linked to wisdom. Wisdom isnβt just knowing stuff, itβs understanding how to use it in ways that bring meaning, connection, and balance. Itβs what guides us when we face tough choices or challenges.
Tree
The tree stands for growth, flexibility, and connection. Trees bend and sway in storms. Theyβre rooted, flexible, and connected to the world around them β just like we can be.
Put together, Think Blue Tree is a simple way to remember how to handle lifeβs challenges: manage your mind, use your wisdom, and stay flexible and connected. Thatβs how we can grow and flourish, no matter what comes our way.
What is Mental Health Coaching?
What Is Mental Health Coaching?
Practical Support for Creating Change in Real Life
Mental Health Coaching is about helping you get back in the driver's seat of your life.
When life feels overwhelming, it is easy to get caught in stress, self-doubt, avoidance, relationship struggles or old patterns that keep repeating. Coaching gives you a supportive place to work with what is happening while building practical skills you can use outside the session.
Understand What's Happening
Slow things down, notice the patterns keeping you stuck and make better sense of what is happening in your thoughts, emotions, behaviour and life.
Practise Useful Skills
Learn and practise new ways of responding to difficult thoughts, emotions and situations rather than relying on the same old automatic reactions.
Move Toward What Matters
Reconnect with what matters to you and turn useful insight into meaningful action in the places where life actually happens.
Evidence-based, practical and tailored to you. My approach draws primarily on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), alongside other evidence-informed and practical approaches where useful.
What Can Mental Health Coaching Help With?
You Don't Need a Perfect Label for What's Going On
People come to Mental Health Coaching for all sorts of reasons, but often it starts with a simple feeling: βI'm stuck, and I don't want to keep doing life this way.β
Some of the common areas people bring to coaching include:
Thoughts, Emotions & Wellbeing
- Anxiety, overthinking and low mood
- Stress, burnout and emotional exhaustion
- Anger, frustration and emotional reactivity
- Confidence, self-worth and self-trust
- Chronic pain adjustment and coping
Habits, Focus & Follow-Through
- Feeling stuck, overwhelmed or unsure what to do next
- Self-sabotage and repeating old patterns
- Motivation, procrastination and follow-through
- ADHD support, focus and everyday structure
- Phone, screen and habit change
Relationships, Direction & Growth
- Relationships, dating and communication
- Work/life transitions and big decisions
- Meaning, purpose and direction
- Health, wellbeing and lifestyle goals
- Personal growth and mental fitness
Not sure where your situation fits? That's completely fine. You do not need to have everything figured out before you start β feeling stuck or knowing that something needs to change is enough to begin the conversation.
Approaches I Draw From
At Think Blue Tree, the focus is on one thing: helping you flourish. I draw from evidence-based and practical approaches, looking at what is useful and how it can be applied in a way that makes sense for you.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Backed by a strong body of research, ACT is built on contextual behavioural science and Relational Frame Theory (RFT).
It focuses on developing psychological flexibility β the ability to handle difficult thoughts, feelings and situations more effectively while continuing to move toward what truly matters.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and developing healthier, more workable patterns.
Where useful, CBT ideas can complement the broader work by helping us look closely at the links between what you think, what you do and what happens next.
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative approach that helps strengthen motivation and commitment to change, especially when part of you wants things to be different while another part feels stuck, unsure or ambivalent.
Rather than being told what to do, the emphasis is on helping you clarify your own reasons for change and build momentum toward it.
Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)
Compassion is often easier to extend to other people than to ourselves. CFT draws from CBT, evolutionary psychology, neuroscience and Buddhist traditions to develop skills for giving and receiving compassion β including self-compassion.
These skills can be especially valuable when dealing with shame, self-criticism, difficult emotions, relationships and the inevitable challenges that come with being human.
Lifestyle Medicine
Mental and physical wellbeing are not separate from everyday life. Practical attention to areas such as sleep, nutrition, movement and stress management can support how you feel and function.
These foundations are used where relevant as part of a broader, whole-person approach rather than as a one-size-fits-all prescription.
Philosophical Counselling & Coaching
Some challenges are not simply problems to remove. They raise deeper questions about meaning, identity, responsibility, values, direction and how we want to live.
Drawing from traditions such as Stoicism, Existentialism and other wisdom traditions, philosophical ideas can be brought into everyday life to help create perspective, purpose and clarity.
How It All Comes Together
The aim is not to force every person through the same model. These approaches give us different ways of understanding what is happening and different tools to draw on depending on what is useful for you.
Mental Health Coaching at Think Blue Tree is active, practical and future-focused. A central theme is developing psychological flexibility β helping you respond to lifeβs ups and downs with greater openness, adaptability and choice.
Think Blue Tree focuses on mild to moderate mental health issues, personal growth, mental fitness and general wellbeing. Mental Health Coaching does not diagnose mental illnesses or prescribe medication, but it can work alongside existing treatment. Most importantly, the aim is to see you as a whole person facing the natural challenges of life β and to help you flourish. The ancient Greeks called this Eudaimonia : a way of living rich with meaning, growth and adaptability. As you grow, life gets better.
Begin Your Transformation Today!
Choose whichever starting point feels right for you.
Start With a Session
Book a full one-to-one session and get straight into working on what is happening and what you want to change.
Online throughout New Zealand or in person in Queenstown.
Talk It Through First
Book a free 15-minute consultation call to ask questions, tell me a little about what you are looking for and see whether working together feels like a good fit.
No pressure and no obligation to book afterwards.