Roos van der Wees (Psychologist)

LifeCo Psychology Team

LifeCo Psychology team member Roos is a clinical psychologist originally from the Netherlands. She immigrated to New Zealand with her husband in 1996 and has lived in Wanganui ever since. From June 1996 until March 2020, Roos worked for the WDHB at Maternal, Infant, Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Addictions Service (MICAMHAS). She started her private practice, Storm Psychology, in May 2020.

Roos’s special areas of interest are trauma and dissociation. She works with children, adolescents, and adults. Roos works from a strength-based, solution-focused perspective and predominantly uses EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) as a treatment modality.

As well as working with private clients, Roos is contracted through ACC for trauma.

Reg Clinical Psychologist