13 Best New Zealand Mental Health Podcasts to Listen to in 2026

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Looking for New Zealand Mental Health podcasts to listen to or for your outreach campaign to promote your brand or product? Our New Zealand Mental Health podcasts list is what you need. When ranking these New Zealand Mental Health podcasts, we've considered not just their following, but also their engagement, ratings, reviews, listener counts, freshness as well as overall influence in the New Zealand Mental Health space. more less

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1. The Nutters Club

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The Nutters Club deals with all the tough stuff that many in society would prefer to keep in the closet. Hosted by Hamish Williams and Kyle MacDonald, the team cover mental health issues, drug/alcohol addictions and the socially taboo every Sunday night from 11pm on Newstalk ZB.more Producer/Network Newstalk ZB
Email ****@nzme.co.nz
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests Mike Lee, Boris Sokratov +5 more
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 3 Avg Length 70 min Format Long form Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. Hope Is Real with Jazz Thornton

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Hope Is Real is a Podcast to help you feel a little less alone, a bit more inspired, and a lot more hopeful. Join Jazz Thornton every week as she speaks to empowering and inspiring people from around the world and shares their stories to normalise the way we talk about mental health in society.TikTok and Instagram: @hopeisrealpodcastPersonal Insta: @JazzThorntonPersonal TikTok: @JazzThornton_Part of the ZM Podcast Network: linktr.ee/zmpodcastnetworkIf you need help, in New Zealand you can contact 1737 by text or call at anytime, or if you are listening internationally you can find someone to..more Host Jazz Thornton
Producer/Network ZM
Email ****@thevoicesofhope.org
Location New Zealand
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Genevieve Mora, Bree Tomasel +5 more
Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 126Facebook 108.7KTwitter 21.8KInstagram 7.5K Avg Length 42 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

3. Voices of Hope: A Moment With...

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It's not weak to speak. Voices of Hope co-founder Genevieve Mora spends a moment with Kiwis who have experienced mental health challenges, digging deeper into their own lived experience, whilst highlighting the tools and lessons they've learned along the way.This podcast has been created to empower, inspire and remind you that you are not alone in your fight. Find out more at https://www.thevoicesofhope.org/more Host Genevieve Holder (Mora)
Producer/Network rova | Voices of Hope | Genevieve Mora
Email ****@rova.nz
Location Auckland, New Zealand
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 38Facebook 26.8KTwitter 561Instagram 48.8K Avg Length 15 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

4. Take It From Us with Kent Johns

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If you're navigating mental health struggles, addiction or recovery — your own or someone else's — you'll hear what actually worked, what didn't and what people wish they'd known sooner. Take It From Us is the voice of lived experience, featuring people sharing their own journeys, unscripted and unfiltered. Host Kent Johns is a broadcaster and health coach who believes everyone has a story worth hearing if someone takes the time to really listen. Press play — you might hear your own story in someone else's...more Producer/Network Ember
Recent Guests Anna Ashton, Dom Huxley +5 more
Avg Length 37 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

5. mind you

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Helping people build lives that feel good
Producer/Network Charlotte Cummings
Email ****@charlottecummings.nz
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 9 Avg Length 26 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

6. Holding space

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Holding space is a podcast from Whāraurau. In each episode, we sit down with people from across the infant, child, and adolescent mental health and addiction sector, and related sectors, to korero about the work, the challenges, and the heart behind supporting our tamariki and rangatahi. Join us as we hold space for honest conversations, shared learning, and collective growth. This podcast is hosted by Dr. Bronwyn Dunnachie and Tepora Pukepuke.more Producer/Network Whāraurau
Recent Guests Professor Te Kani Kingi, Kathryn Wright +9 more
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 26 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

7. Reviving Hope

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Kia Ora, welcome to the Reviving Hope podcast with me your host Bronnie Tressler. I know what it is to struggle with and recover from significant mental health challenges. I also live in wellness with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and anxiety. In this podcast you will hear inspiring recovery stories, and also from various guests who have great wisdom to share on mental health and Christian faith. I live in beautiful Aotearoa, New Zealand. This podcast is gentle and practical, faith-filled and inspiring. I believe hope is found in the person of Jesus Christ...more Producer/Network Bronnie Tressler
Recent Guests Richard Black, Brett Harvey +4 more
Avg Length 24 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

8. The Difference

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The Difference is a podcast by and for support workers in mental health and addiction in Aotearoa New Zealand. Hosted by Te Pou project lead Alexia Black, this four-episode series dives into the real experiences of support workers, sharing their stories with honesty, heart and humour. Topics include using your lived experience in your mahi, worker wellbeing, and vicarious trauma, leadership, career pathways and workforce retention and the importance of reflective practice.If you work in mental health and addiction services, or are interested in the work support works do, tune in!This podcast..more Producer/Network Te Pou
Avg Length 34 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

9. Fau Gagana Podcast. A Samoan nurse's perspective on mental health.

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Talofa lava, this podcast is presented in the Samoan language, catering to Samoan migrants in New Zealand and around the globe, as well as Samoans living in Samoa. Information include Samoan translation of clinical/medical terms by Samoan mental health professionals. Also, understanding of mental health from the Samoan worldview by Samoan experts of the culture. Tune in for general information about mental health and mental illness, ways to manage and looking after mental wellbeing, and where to find support when needed in New Zealand. Ole polokalame I le gagana Samoa e fa'atatau ile ..more Producer/Network Dr Ioana Mulipola
Email ****@faugaganapractice.com
Recent Guests Mulipola Leonia, Priscilla
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 51 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

10. The Raw Truth with Harriet Bremner

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The Raw Truth - sharing authentic stories to normalise conversations around grief, trauma and mental health. Join Harriet as she speaks with other rural New Zealander's who have raw and honest stories to share. The shocking, emotional reality of life is confronted as they speak up about the 'raw truths' in their lives. Unburying things that traditionally we sweep under the rug and avoid confronting, Harriet aims to help you become more able to deal with whatever life throws at you in the future. Be inspired by those who remove their masks by sharing their remarkable and relatable stories.more Producer/Network Harriet Bremner
Email ****@harrietbremner.com
Location New Zealand
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 5Facebook 1.4KInstagram 1.8K Avg Length 74 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

11. Inked Psycho

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Psychologist Matt Hegan interviews guests (therapists, psychologists, counsellors, researchers) from New Zealand and beyond to explore mental health strategies, behaviour change and emotional wellbeing. Season 1 is all about retired/retiring professionals and what they've learnt in their careers- successes, failures and applications to their own lives.more Producer/Network Matt Hegan
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 4 Avg Length 102 min Format Extended Get Email Contact

12. Mad Like Me Podcast

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Mad like Me is a podcast created and hosted by Jamie Wise and Charlie Scott platforming the stories and lived experiences of everyday humans through the lens of mental health. madlikeme.substack.commore Producer/Network the comedy(ish) mental health podcast with Jamie Wise and Charlie Scott
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 10 Avg Length 71 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

13. Blue Stories Project

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Blue Stories Project: sharing journey out of perinatal depression. A project that creates a culture of supporting ALL women and their families on their parenting journeys. It educates communities and normalizes the topic of perinatal depression. In the Blue Stories Project podcast Karolina Gorton invites people to talk about parental mental health and perinatal depression from many different perspectives.more Email ****@freshfm.net
Location New Zealand
Facebook 2.8KInstagram 745 Avg Length 41 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

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