Dr Olli Anttila

"What people really want, is to feel fully alive." (D H Lawrence)

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all real art and all science." (Albert Einstein)

"Don’t try. Be real." (Charles Bukowski)

Personal history: I am an old happy man, a medical doctor, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, in my eighties, father and grandfather, and I work in my home studio, which is at the back of our 140-year-old zookeeper’s cottage.

I was born and grew up in Finland and did my medical education at Helsinki University in the happy 1960’s and, had my psychoanalytic and psychiatric education in Helsinki as well. I immigrated to New Zealand in 1990 and have been working in Auckland since 1993.

My work: I believe that the only thing that really helps us, suffering human beings, is a human connection, and therefore I prefer to see people face to face, not online. At least the first consultation has to be in person.

Many people who come to see me feel isolated, different and alone; and still keep their appearances as being ok. I know that real changes in us can often happen only when we feel that “this is the end, I can’t go on like this any longer”.

In our time the massive ‘background noise’ of the world around us, (like the fast changes in our ways of living, the ongoing wars, the threat of a nuclear war, climate change, the emerging AI-revolution, and dealing with algorithms rather than with human beings), are all having a big impact on all of us and make most of us feel quite lost. This is a burn-out time, a crisis time for all of us humans; and a good time to talk with someone to go on living and trying to make some sense of it all.

Areas of interest: My main areas of interests are twofold:

1. Helping people to grow to their full potential, and to achieve in their life what they are meant to achieve and have a life that will leave them with a feeling of gratitude when they get old. Also, over the last years people who are neurodivergent have been coming to see me to sort out their ADHD problems and to get started on stimulant medications, which seems to be very helpful for most of them.
2. The second area of my interests is to help people through crisis times in their life, and to facilitate their adjustment to emerging new life situations. (Remember, on the other side of crisis are the new opportunities and the freedom that comes with it). When I say crisis times, I mean, for example:

• Times of relationship break-up
• Changes in work situation, unemployment
• Health crisis, for example, physical illness or mental breakdown/breakthrough
• Retirement crisis, menopause, empty nest
• Death or serious illness of a loved one
• Immigration or moving to a new place and job
• Emerging awareness of a lifelong undercurrent of unprocessed sorrow and unhappiness
• Dealing with one’s self-defeating and self-destructive tendencies
• Problems in intimate physical and mental relationships
• Extreme sensitivity and feeling different, vulnerable, lonely, and raw
• Unsuccessful or unfinished previous psychotherapies
• Anhedonia, having lost the joy of life
• Feeling extremely sad

I am also happy to work with professionals and artists, and with people who have spiritual awareness. I also work with couples and work teams and provide supervision and second opinions for my colleagues. I am a Southern Cross Insurance provider as a medical specialist (Psychiatrist)

Enquiries Welcome : The best way of contacting me is by e-mail 100oldmill@gmail.com or texting me at +64 21 66 85 44.