Margaret Agee

Margaret Rosemary Nelson Agee ONZM is a New Zealand mental health counsellor and academic. In 2014 Agee was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to mental health education.

Agee completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of English at the University of Auckland.^[1] While at university she visited a guidance counsellor for help with stress and confidence, and found it so helpful she described developing "an almost missionary zeal" for counselling.^[1] The career path for counselling at the time involved working as a teacher first, for around five years. Agee trained as a teacher, and then taught English and social studies at Auckland Girls' Grammar School.^[1] Agee was then appointed to Aorere College, where she was first junior counsellor and then head of guidance.^[1] She was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Auckland in 1990, where she later completed a PhD.^[1][2] One of Agee's doctoral students is the first Pacific person to graduate with a PhD in counselling from Auckland, Toleafoa Sarah Sala Va'afusuaga McRobie.^[3]

Agee lectures in professional supervision, and also researches on loss and grief.^[1] Agee has been actively involved with the National Association for Loss and Grief, and was a founding member and serves on the board of the Grief Centre.^[4] Agee was a member of the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement.^[4]

Agee has co-edited three books and is on the editorial board of the New Zealand Journal of Counselling.^[1][5]

In the 2014 New Year's Honours Agee was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to mental health education.^[6] She is a Life Member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors.^[4]

Scholia has a profile for Margaret Agee (Q58454225).

• Agee, Margaret Nelson; McIntosh, Tracey; Culbertson, Philip; 'Ofa Makasiale, Cabrini, eds. (15 October 2012). Pacific Identities and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203113578. ISBN 9780203113578.
• Laura A. Chubb; Christa B. Fouché; Margaret Agee; Andrew Thompson (22 April 2021). "'Being there': technology to reduce isolation for young people with significant illness". International Journal of Inclusive Education: 1–18. doi:10.1080/13603116.2021.1916106. ISSN 1360-3116. Wikidata Q117306229.
• Pauline Dickinson; Glenda Neilson; Margaret Agee (May 2004). "The Sustainability of Mentally Healthy Schools Initiatives: Insights from the Experiences of a Co - Educational Secondary School in Aotearoa/New Zealand". International Journal of Mental Health Promotion. 6 (2): 34–39. doi:10.1080/14623730.2004.9721929. ISSN 1462-3730. Wikidata Q130384559.
• Johannes F. Everts; Margaret Nelson Agee (December 1994). "Including spirituality in counsellor education: Issues for consideration, with illustrative reference to a New Zealand example". International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling. 17 (4): 291–302. doi:10.1007/BF01407745. ISSN 0165-0653. Wikidata Q130384560.