0800 627 497 Welcome! Come and meet our amazing team at North City Physiotherapy, our biggest strength. We are a tight knit group of experienced physiotherapists who are passionate about what we do and getting an outcome for you. We have over 70 years of clinical experience adding to our diversity. We come from different backgrounds, and different ethinicities, so we carry different life & cultural experiences, clinical experiences, and we have a mixture of male & female physios. We ackowledge culture plays an important part in the way our patients access our service, and our diverse team of clincians are here to meet your needs.
Adding to our diversity, our physios have worked some of their careers in the hospitals, alongside GPs, overseas, along with surgeons, fracture clinics, & sports teams including high level elite athletes, including rugby, rugby league locally and representative, netball, & soccer.
Know this, when you see one of our staff you are not just seeing that one physio, but getting the collective expertise and skill of our entire team, right in your local community. Each and every week our team undergoes case discussions, mentoring, professional development, and supervision, so we can be at our best for you and your recovery. It is our team approach that is geared towards achieving the best possible outcome for our patients that is our true strength.
Our staff are all up-to-date with latest evidence based management and techniques, hold post graduate qualifications and continue the life long learning process to provide you top class care locally.
Our Physiotherapists
Atif Razvi
CEO, Clinical Director & Lead Post Grad Physiotherapist | Porirua
Atif has been practising as a physiotherapist since 2001 & has extensive experience as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist having worked locally and overseas. He has studied extensively and founded North City Physiotherapy. Read More
Abhishek (Abhi) D’Costa
Lead Post Graduate Sports Physiotherapist | Johnsonville
Abhi is an experienced musculoskeletal Physiotherapist from Wellington with extensive private practice experience both here in New Zealand and in Australia. Read More
Nicole Frisby
Lead & Pelvic Health Physiotherapist | Porirua
Nicole is a very experienced lead and pelvic health physiotherapist having worked in New Zealand and Australia for many years. Her passion is in utilising excellent communication skills while providing evidence based treatments. Nicole heads up our pelvic health physio service including woman’s and men’s pelvic health as well as rehabilitating women from birthing injuries. Read More
Chris Desmond
Lead Post Grad Physiotherapist | Whitby
Chris is a very experienced physiotherapist extensive experience across private and public sectors in New Zealand. He has worked with high level sports teams and have been physiotherapist on international sporting tours. Read More
Maurice Valente
Lead Physiotherapist | Porirua
Maurice is very experienced physiotherapist of 14 years and counting. He has worked extensively in musculoskeletal physiotherapy including elite sports with cricket, rugby rowers, and orthopaedics. Read More
Sam Wu
Senior Physiotherapist | Johnsonville
Sam is an experienced post graduate physiotherapist who graduated from the University of Otago with physiotherapy and as a post graduate in Sports Medicine. He has extensive experience in musculoskeletal diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. Read More
Jane Mugglestone
Senior Physiotherapist | Whitby
Jane is a very experienced physiotherapist in private practice who used to run our Whitby clinic. She has been part of the Whitby community for many years and loves to continue to work with her patients and serve the community.
Philip Blanchard
Senior Physiotherapist | Porirua
Philip is an Otago University graduate. He is originally a local from Porirua. Philip has extensive experience in musculoskeletal private practice and sports physiotherapy. He enjoys the challenge of complex patients where other approaches may have failed. Read More
Marama Mitchell
Senior Physiotherapist | Whitby
Marama is an experienced physio who studied at AUT before she moved back to Wellington and started working at a private practice. She enjoys working with a diverse range of people with a variety of injuries. Read More
Stacey-Leigh Amsterdam
Senior Physiotherapist | Whitby | Porirua
Stacey-Leigh is a experienced physiotherapist from South Africa who has with a love for people. She well experienced in most spheres of acute and subacute rehabilitation and advocate for both functional and holistic rehab. She has sent the last year with us and continues on her work here in NZ. Read More
Andie Fitch
Senior Physiotherapist | Porirua
Andie is a University of Otago graduate has vast experience in working with musculoskeletal physiotherapy private practice. Andie loves the Porirua community she has worked in for a number of years, and the seniors classes she runs in Whitby. She is passionate about helping her patients reach their goals. She herself is a experienced cross fit athlete, training and competing frequently. Read More
Carmin Kannemeyer
Senior Physiotherapist | Johnsonville
Carmin graduated from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa in 2015 with a Bachelor’s (Honors) degree in Physiotherapy and has worked in private and public healthcare. With over 10 years of experience, she has had the privilege of treating an array of conditions including orthopaedic conditions, musculoskeletal acute and chronic presentations, chronic pain, sports related injuries, pre and post-operative care as well as the treatment of concussions. Read More
Florine Djojodiredjo
Physiotherapist | Pelvic Health Physiotherapist | Whitby
Florine is an experienced physiotherapist who has been working in private practice for sometime. She is passionate about helping people with their recovery from injuries and helping them back to activities that are important to them. She is also passionate about pelvic health physio which she also is able to see pelvic conditions & maternal birth injuries. Read More
Roger Pambala
Physiotherapist | Porirua | Tawa
Roger is an Otago University graduate. He has experience in private practice gaining a range of experience with musculoskeletal impairments and conditions. His passion lies in sports physiotherapy especially rugby where he is the Norths physio and also worked in the Wellington rugby and Hurricane age group teams. Read More
Ezekiel Parazo
Physiotherapist
Known as ‘Zeke”, he comes to us from the UK to explore and experience physiotherapy in a different part of the world, Zeke has almost 4 years of Post graduate experience, primarily working in a rotational roles in the NHS in the UK (Acute inpatient/outpatient setting), however spent the last year working with us and continues to do so. Read More
Sian Meffan
Physiotherapist | Porirua
Sian is an Otago university graduate who has been working in private practice in Wellington for a few years now She enjoys the challenge of being a musculoskeletal physiotherapist, and has an interest in sports physiotherapy, especially rugby. Read More
Kirsty Bidgood
Physiotherapist | Porirua
Kirsty is a Otago university graduate who has been working in private practice since graduation. She is committed to delivering personalised, hands-on care, incorporating evidence-based practices and a holistic approach to help clients achieve their individual goals. Read More
Leo Zhang
Physiotherapist | Porirua
Leo begins his journey with us having graduated as from the University of Otago. He has experience in outpatients musculoskeletal, private practice as well as hospital settings. He is a local from Wellington.
Our Administrators
Tyler Bentley
Administrator – Johnsonville Clinic
Jan Henderson
Administrator – Whitby Clinic
Lesley Drummond
Administrator – Whitby Clinic
Hannah Honiss
Administrator – Porirua Clinic
