Tuffnell Mind and Body

✨ Meet the face behind Tuffnell Mind & Body ✨

I’m passionate about empowering wahine to regain confidence, helping practitioners sustain their careers, and supporting massage clients to not just get relief—but learn to listen to their bodies. Because listening to your body shouldn’t only happen in a massage session.

I’ve navigated a lot to build this business, and my intention is simple: to rebuild, sustain, and empower through a variety of wellbeing modalities. I love connecting with people, whether it’s through healing work with Riding for the Disabled, sustaining social work through contract roles, or guiding wahine toward holistic wellbeing in supervision sessions.

Every session, every connection, every step—it’s about growth, reflection, and thriving together. 💛

🌿 Supervision Support Beyond the Session 🌿

One of the resources I provide to supervision clients is a Tuffnell Mind and Body Self-Reflection Journal.

A supervision journal can be a valuable tool, not only for self-reflection, but also for capturing those thoughts, experiences, challenges, and questions that arise between sessions. Rather than trying to remember everything, clients can jot down reflections as they happen and bring them along to help shape the agenda for our next supervision session.

Each supervision pack includes: ✨ A Tuffnell Mind and Body Self-Reflection Journal ✨ A copy of your supervision contract ✨ Useful stationery items for note-taking and reflection ✨ An affirmation card for encouragement and inspiration ✨ A sample of the Tui Balms I use in massage sessions ✨ A Kit Kat and a few sweet treats as a gentle reminder to take a break and look after yourself

My aim is to create a supervision experience that feels supportive, practical, and nurturing from the very beginning.

As helping professionals, we're often focused on supporting others. These little touches are a reminder that your own wellbeing matters too.

Professional supervision is about more than meeting requirements. It's a space to reflect, grow, celebrate successes, navigate challenges, and continue showing up as the best version of yourself.

Because growth, reflection, and wellbeing don't only happen during the hour we spend together. 💚

Books that shaped my journey ❤️

Back in 2010, as a single mum raising a son, I attended a presentation by Celia Lashlie. She was real, down to earth, funny, swore when she needed to, and spoke in a way that just made sense. She talked honestly about raising boys, parenting, society and the pressures families face.

Walking away from that presentation, something shifted in me. Celia became one of the biggest inspirations behind me signing up to study social work.

Years later, while working in a supervisory role, I read The Power of Mothers and it deeply aligned with the values I carried throughout my social work career, including during my time at Oranga Tamariki. A huge part of my approach was never simply about removing children, but looking at how we empower mothers, strengthen families and support change within the home.

I truly believe mothers hold incredible power in shaping future generations — not just raising strong boys and good men, but helping to break cycles of intergenerational trauma, create safety, connection and emotional wellbeing.

Her books are incredible, easy to read, relatable and full of wisdom. These are a few from my collection that I still recommend often ❤️

📚 He’ll Be OK
📚 The Power of Mothers
📚 The Journey to Prison

Before her passing, Celia also produced a film continuing her important work and conversations around young people, families and society. Her legacy continues to inspire so many people working in the wellbeing and social work space.

Some people leave a lasting impact without ever realising it — and Celia Lashlie was one of those people for me.

✨ Momentum is building at Tuffnell Mind and Body ✨

The past few weeks have been BUSY in the best way — with new clients, referrals, supervision enquiries, massage bookings, networking and training 🤍

This week includes more training today and an exciting photoshoot on Friday afternoon 📸✨

With bookings picking up, now is the perfect time to book ahead and lock in the May Special pricing for your next appointment before it finishes.

Current availability:
🌿 Wednesday afternoon
🌿 Friday morning
🌿 Saturday appointments available

I’m also offering complimentary social work supervision sessions for those wanting to connect and see if we’re the right fit to work together ✨

Burnout is often spoken about as an individual problem — as if people simply need better self-care, stronger boundaries or more resilience.

But in helping professions, burnout is rarely that simple.

When people are carrying high caseloads, working within stretched systems, holding trauma stories, navigating ethical complexity and constantly supporting others, burnout is not a personal failure. It is often a response to prolonged emotional load and chronic stress.

I’ve experienced burnout myself and had to learn how to navigate it, both personally and professionally. That experience has deeply shaped the way I approach supervision and wellbeing within practice.

My supervision style focuses on reflection, holistic wellbeing and sustainable practice. I draw from approaches that look at the whole person — not just the worker role — because emotional, cultural, physical and spiritual wellbeing all matter in the work we do.

Good supervision is not about victim blaming people for struggling. It’s about creating a safe space to reflect, process, reconnect with purpose and recognise when support is needed before people reach complete exhaustion.

Because supporting others also means supporting the people doing the work 💛

Social Work Supervision ✨

A lot of people hear the word “supervision” and think it means someone checking up on your work, but in social work it’s so much more than that.

Supervision is a space for reflection, support, accountability and growth. While it is a requirement for Registered Social Workers, it’s also an opportunity to pause, process and strengthen the way we show up in our mahi.

My approach is grounded in relationship, holistic wellbeing and reflective practice. I draw from models such as:
🌿 Te Whare Tapa Whā
🌊 He Awa Whiria
✨ Strengths-Based Practice
🪞 Reflective Practice

I currently practice within the ACC Sensitive Claims space, so I understand the complexity and emotional weight that can come with contracting roles. This work can feel isolating at times, especially when working independently and holding heavy narratives.

Both receiving and providing supervision has helped me immensely in practice — culturally, personally and professionally. It creates space to reflect on ethical dilemmas, boundaries, wellbeing, growth and the way we support others while also supporting ourselves.

Supervision should feel collaborative, safe and authentic — a space where you can think deeply, reconnect with purpose and continue growing in your practice 💛

I also offer a free complimentary session to start so we can ensure we are the right fit for one another ❤️