Margaret Agee

Margaret Rosemary Nelson Agee 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.

Academic career

Agee completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of English at the University of Auckland. 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.

Agee lectures in professional supervision, and also researches on loss and grief. 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. Agee was a member of the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement.

Honours and awards 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. She is a Life Member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors.

Selected works