MEET THE TEAM

At Conductive Education Canterbury we have a dedicated team of professionals to support you and your child to get the best. All our specialists are qualified in their respective fields and actively committed to ongoing professional learning and development to ensure they provide you and you family with the most up to date and professional advice and guidance.

Rebecca Courtney
Service Coordinator/Manager

Rebecca has been our manager for over 10 years and still can’t believe how fortunate she is to be involved in such a positive, nurturing organisation and environment. She loves her role and especially enjoys supporting the families as they navigate these early years with their precious children.
She feels privileged to be leading a team of very skilled committed professionals who are able to support and coach the families to help their children reach their potential.
She is currently studying towards a Graduate Diploma in Not for Profit Management - the Not for Profit sector is an area she believes is the heart and soul of our community and society. She also holds two other roles with in the sector; she is the Treasurer for The New Zealand Foundation for Conductive Education and is the Coordinator for the Early Intervention Coordination Service here in Christchurch.
In her spare time, Rebecca enjoys spending time outdoors in the beautiful McKenzie Country with her husband and 3 gorgeous spirited teenagers boating, fishing, bike riding & walking. 

Nichola McGuire
Early Intervention Teacher

Nichola is a qualified early intervention teacher with many years’ experience working in both the education and disability sectors. She is a qualified Infant Massage Instructor and this has become a key part of the programme we offer families at the centre. Throughout her career, she has taken on a number of roles both at our centre and in the wider early childhood and early intervention communities. She has been in her current role since 2003 and enjoys catching up with past families at centre and community events.
Nichola has a real passion for working with children and families. She brings a professional knowledge and expertise to each programme which is blended with care and love resulting in sessions that are age appropriate and fun.
Nichola spends her spare time with her husband and daughter, relaxing at home, cheering on the All Blacks with her rugby mad family or venturing over to the West Coast to catch up with family and friends. 

Hannah Winter
Early Intervention Teacher - 
Māori Cultural Advisor/Kaitohutohu

Hannah is a qualified early intervention teacher with many years’ experience working in both the disability and education sectors. Throughout her career, she has worked with a diverse range of children and whanau. She has been in her current role since 2012.
Of Kai Tahu descent, Hannah is passionate about celebrating our unique cultural heritage here in Aotearoa and is very supportive of our centers bicultural development. Hannah loves seeing children reach their potential; developing a strong sense of who they are and the valued contribution they make to their community. She has a strong interest in actively progressing inclusiveness within the wider early childhood community.
Hannah loves music, cooking and spending time with her whanau traveling and exploring. A mother herself, Hannah understands the dreams and aspirations parents have for their children and is committed to supporting whanau to make these dreams a reality.

Dora Molnar
Conductor

Dora graduated from the International Andras Peto Institute of Conductive Education in 2005. She first worked as a professional in Hungary for 3 years before moving to New Zealand in 2008; joining the team at the Addington School Conductive Education Unit, She worked here until 2015 when  joined the team of Conductive Education Canterbury to follow her dreams of working with bot preschool and school aged children.
Originally Dora wanted to be paparazzi and travel the world however, one day, following a long conversation about Conductive Education with a lady at the Synagogue Dora what it was that she really wanted to do - she wanted to become a Conductor.
Dora has many interests. She loves her church family and teaching at Sunday school as well as her cats, cooking and trying out different food, taking long walks and travel.

Kay Hamilton
Speech Language Therapist

Moira Dimmock
Early Childhood Teacher/Education Support Worker

Ange Dyer
Education Support Worker

“Specialists use their in-depth professional knowledge to support families to develop and implement effective programmes, recognise achievement and celebrate success” (External Reviewer)