Registered Counsellor and teacher. Matt's services are available for us to access here at Bluestone one day a week (Wednesday) for 2023.

A bit about Matt Cameron (briefly):
I am a registered counsellor and teacher. I enjoy sports, especially racket sports, and being a handyman. I began teaching in a North Island primary school in 1997 and have taught at every level (from year 0 to year 13). I moved to South Canterbury in 1998 and have been teaching in various school since then (Timaru Christian, Waihi, Gleniti, Roncalli, Pleasant Point and T-Tech). I completed my counselling training in 2009 (while teaching full-time!) and worked for Anglican Care, part-time until 2022. I enjoyed working in South Canterbury as the Oceans Grief and Loss Coordinator since 2012 gaining valuable experience and have been applying the Solution Focused approach to all my work since 2016. I have been offering training workshops in the Solution Focused approach since 2020. I love this approach and see it as a client-centred, strength-based, multi-cultural, resource amplifying, user-friendly approach that is life-changing and applicable to every situation. I will enthusiastically talk to you more about this and how it’s methods and principles could benefit your school.The information below will hopefully provide more information. If people want to know more they can visit the Skylight website or my website - listed belowThe web link to Highfield’s website (Skylight info) is also helpful https://highfield.school.nz/counselling-support/

About Skylight

Get the Right Help at the Right Time, in the Right WaySupporting children, young people, and their whānau to navigate through tough times by building RESILIENT INDIVIDUALS and COMMUNITIES.https://www.skylight.org.nz

What we do

We support people of all ages throughout New Zealand who are facing any kind of tough life situation, but we specialise in grief, loss and trauma.

Counselling

We provide counselling services for people going through difficult times in life. The range of issues we could support you with include:

 • Grief and bereavement (including bereavement by suicide or homicide)

• Trauma (including witnessing a traumatic event)

• Family break up and adjusting to blended families • Behavioural issues (anger in children, bullying, ASD)

• Illness and anticipated death

• Mild to moderate mental health issues

• Domestic Violence 

 Broken relationships

• Injury or disability

• Disaster aftermath

How can Bluestone access my services?

There are two referral forms (attached): one for teachers and one for parents.The School-based referral form is filled out and sent to the school office which is then sent through to Skylight (clinicalcoordinator@skylight.org.nz)The Child(ren) Intake form is a parent referral form. They fill it in an return to the school office which is then sent through to Skylight (clinicalcoordinator@skylight.org.nz)Looking forward to meeting up