Massey University Albany

Harry Lissington

Physiotherapist

Harry graduated from AUT in 2016 with a Bachelor of Health Science in Physiotherapy. He is a local to Albany and grew up on the North Shore. He has a love for sport which is where his interest in physiotherapy and dynamics of the body started.

Football is Harry's ultimate passion, he plays and physios for North Shore United in the NRFL Premier Division, in which they were crowned champions in 2019. He is a dedicated Arsenal fan and often gets up at 3am to watch his team play.

Harry is intersted in all musculoskeletal physiotherapy and concussion, with a particular focus on exercise based rehabilitation. Harry is passionate about rehabilitaing his clients back to their optimal level of function and fitness.

Mitch Versey

Physiotherapist

Mitch graduated from AUT in 2016 with a Bachelor of Health Science in Physiotherapy. He loves a variety of sports which sparked his interest in physiotherapy and exercise based rehabilitation.

Surfing is Mitch’s first love and he enjoys chasing waves around the world. He spent half a year living in Indonesia where he experienced, travelled, and surfed his way through Balinese culture. Now back home in New Zealand you will still find him tearing up the west coast barrels and swells.

When he is not catching waves he is running up and down the rugby pitch, where he finds a home as a halfback for Silverdale Rugby Club.

Mitch has an interest in all musculoskeletal physiotherapy and enjoys to use an active approach for rehabilitation. This is shown through his extensive knowledge and skills using our gym facilities in Albany. He is passionate about creating an environment that empowers and encourages the client to improve their function and fitness.

Claire Wang

Acupuncturist

Claire is trained as both a traditional and western style Chinese Acupuncturist working at our clinic in Massey University Albany.

Claire uses many traditional acupuncture techniques including one of our favourites - fire cupping!!

Claire believes in a healthy lifestyle and eating well, whilst keeping fit with low stress exercise. Claire loves yoga and has an interest in gym based exercise.You may catch her floating around our gym here at Motion Health Massey University Albany.

Claire obtained a masters degree of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine after 8 years training in China. She has worked in NZ as an acupuncturist since 2010. Claire has expertise dealing with sports and work injuries, headaches, migraines, musculoskeletal injuries, sciatica, stress, depression, low energy, anxiety, insomnia,  and menstrual issues such as irregular, painful cycles.

Janine Wiese

Practice Manager

Janine joined our team in April 2018 and brings with her nine years experience in administration and office management.  Her abilities and experience in organizing, prioritizing and customer service makes her a valuable team member and an impeccable practice manager.

Clients will be greeted by her friendly smile when visiting our clinic and she will make sure all the needed paperwork gets dealt with fast and efficiently.

Originally from South Africa, Janine moved here with her family in 2017 and has fallen in love with her new home.  Her two boys keep her very busy when she is not at work with basketball, rugby and flipper ball.  She loves spending quality time with her family whether its having ice cream on the beach or hiking one of the many beautiful trails that NZ has to offer.

Janine is a passionate individual with a bubbly outgoing personality and a positive outlook on life.  She believes in giving her all, all of the time.

Saskia Cole

Receptionist

Saskia joined the Motion Health team as our admin support in 2019. She will happily greet you and take care of all your administration needs.

After being badly injured herself last year, Saskia knows how it feels to have an injury take over every aspect of your life.

Being thrown out of her active lifestyle and circus training (trapeze with her fiance, silks and lyra) took a big toll on her at the time. After attending physiotherapy every few days for a year, she decided she wanted to work in an environment that helps people the same way her physio helped her - both physically and mentally.

Now she's back to full health focusing on her strength training and stamina so she can return to the world of circus.

She understands how much a smile and friendly manner can brighten someone's day - you will never see her without one!

Sean Peng

Acupuncturist

Sean has been working as a qualified western and Chinese medicine doctor in China since 2013. Sean was conferred Bachelor of medicine in western and Chinese medicine by Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine in 2013 and bachelor of health science in acupuncture by New Zealand college of Chinese medicine in Apr 2019.

After years of training with other like-minded colleagues, he has learned to treat his clients and share his experience through a combination of western and Chinese medicine. His major is neurology; this is really helpful to expand his abilities to pain management and other neurology diseases with acupuncture. He uses acupuncture, Tui Na (Chinese therapeutic massage), cupping and scraping therapy to treat injures and health imbalances at our clinic in Albany, Auckland. He is a passionate healer with an alternative approach, and he is dedicated to help his clients move through a wide range of physical, emotional, and spiritual transitions in the most efficient and transformative way possible as well.