REgistered Clinical Counsellor, MArriage and Family Therapist Registered clinical COUNSELLOR, Psychotherapy & Counselling Federation of Australia: COLLEGE OF Counselling & RELATIONSHIP COUNSELLORS CANADIAN CERTIFIED COUNSELLOR, CanadianCounselling & Psychotherapy Association PROFESSIONAL MEMBER, American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors & Therapists FULL MEMBER, Asian Academy of Family Therapy Full Member, Hong Kong Professional Counselling Association
I am passionate about working with adults (both individuals and couples). I use a humanistic and experiential approach, as well as mindfulness and cognitive-based disciplines to offer mental health counselling for individuals; utilise research-based assessments and interventions, as well as attachment science to help couples strengthen their relationships and marriages; indivudals with their families members build supportive family systems.
I help committed couples to gain understanding of their relationship dynamics, strength and growth areas; help couples in treating affairs and trauma; facilitate couples to cope with issues that arise in healthy ways; foster resilience and enrich their relationships through pre-marital and relationship counselling.
I am experienced in helping individuals with attachment issues, family conflicts and relationship issues, life transitions, stress, procrastination, perfectionism behaviours, low self-esteem, sleeping problems, depression, anger management issues, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, social anxiety and phobias, management roles readiness, workplace relationships, people communication and management skills, grief and loss, trauma.
I also help individals with their family members to address barriers, better communicate with each other, and build a more harmonious and supportive family system by clarifying each family member's expectations and perspectives on their family issues; acknowledging their contributions to their families; enhancing communication skills; helping them to express and receiving love from their family members; building closer emotional bonding; taking responsibility for oneself and others; addressing conflicts among family members (including intergenerational relationships, in-laws, extended family, etc.); using effective parenting methods; developing coping strategies to navigate transitions or crises. I have been providing an individual’s mental health and couple’s counselling in clinical settings. I worked with international schools in providing counselling to children, adolescents and families; corporates in providing training in managing mental health in the workplace. Prior to completing my post-graduation, I had been studying in the U.K.
I meet my clients with unconditional positive regard to join them at where they are in a genuine, supportive and nonjudgmental way in their healing journey. I hold and soothe them with relentless empathy in a secure-base therapeutic alliance where clients can feel comfortable to take risks with me as their companion to go into what is foreign, strange, dangerous, scary, sad, unbearably stressful, painful or unacceptable in their inner lives and face their vulnerabilities together. I help them see the processes in which they are caught in with their emotions and with other people; reorganise their inner world that makes sense of their lives; find their emotional balance and redirect those processes into new directions.
Life can be quite challenging. Sometimes, we dismiss our difficult emotions and we somehow feel like it is weak to talk about them. I believe there is nothing weak to acknowledge and accept our human vulnerability. I think it is a real sign of strength to try to share our vulnerability with someone else.
Language: English and Cantonese
Qualification:
Master of Counselling (Australia)
Certificate in Psychology and Mental Health (United Kingdom)
Certificatein Family Therapy
Certified in Premarital Counselling
Certificate in Gottman Method Couples Therapy – Level 3
Certificate in Treating Affairs and Trauma
Certificate in Couples and Addiction Recovery Training
Certificate in EFT: Attachment Sciencein Practice for individuals, couples & families
Certificate in ACT for Trauma
American Councul on Exercise - NCCA and ACE-certified Health Coach
Chinese University of Hong Kong - Certificate of completion in Chinese Medicine in Women’s Health