“Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.”
~ Rocky Balboa
What is Counselling?
Clients often come for counselling to improve their personal effectiveness to cope with stressors in the work/school, family, personal and social domains. Examples of some common stressors are when clients undergo transitions such as moving to a new school, job, or home, preparing for examinations & interviews. Other common concerns revolve around mid-life crisis, identity & relationship issues,addiction, anxiety, stress, break-up, divorce, grief, loss, and depression. Clients usually experience strong emotions such as boredom, anger, guilt, sadness, stress, inadequacy, loneliness, anxiety, grief, fear, frustration, and depression.
In a counselling session, clients are given the time and opportunity and a safe space to explore, probe and clarify their issues, thoughts, feelings and behaviours with the counsellor. During this one-on-one session, the counsellor aims to support the clients to clarify and establish what is important to them and then work collaboratively to enable and empower the clients to build more quality relationships with themselves and others. In the process, the counsellor also facilitates clients’ potential and enhance their effectiveness and ability to cope and thrive in life.
When an issue is more systemic, counselling sessions often also involve the whole family or organisation to help family members or work teams broaden and increase their perspectives on how each can influence and contribute to the ‘other’ (i.e. joys & pains, learning & growth). An important goal of couple, family or team counselling is to promote mutual understanding, trust and synergy and develop better inter-relational and communication skills among family and team members – to improve couples, parent-child, sibling-sibling, supervisor-supervisee, colleagues’ quality of relationship).
In short, counselling aims to help clients:
Counselling Services:
Mental Health (Upstream Work)
The proverb, “Prevention is better than cure” highlights the importance and need for ‘Upstream Work” in mental health. This is especially crucial given the high mental health incidence rates (1 in 4 persons) in the world including S’pore and the highest prevalence found in youths and young adults. We offer ‘upstream work’ such as psychoeducation to develop awareness and mental resilience among our youths.
The proverb, “Prevention is better than cure” highlights the importance and need for ‘Upstream Work” in mental health. This is especially crucial given the high mental health incidence rates (1 in 4 persons) in the world including S’pore and the highest prevalence found in youths and young adults. We offer ‘upstream work’ such as psychoeducation to develop awareness and mental resilience among our youths.
- Mental Health Talk
We conduct mental health talk to raise awareness of mental health myths & facts, common mental health issues, reduce stigma associated with mental illness and promote help-seeking behaviours and psychological well-being practices.
- Leadership & Organisation Health
The impact of leadership on organisational health is significant. Gallup survey has shown consistently that one of the top reasons people leave a job is related to their direct supervisor. This workshop aims to increase self-awareness and promote self-mastery among leaders to effect stronger employee engagement, leverage on collective strengths, build positive work culture, enhance performance, and foster team learning and resilience.
- “Discovering My Unique Special Power (USP): Enhancing Socio-emotional Learning (SEL) & Mental Resilience Programme”
The USP Programme is an 8-week programme aimed at developing awareness & appreciation of one’s unique identity (My Inner Voice) and sensitivity to similarities & differences with others, appreciating multiple perspectives and developing mental resilience, effective problem-solving & relationship management skills and self-efficacy.
Counselling Fees & Duration: $150 per hour, per session. Clients usually take approximately 8 to 15 sessions to resolve their issues and meet their counselling goals.
For upstream programmes aimed at building mental resilience to navigate the stressors experienced in the various domains in life be it
For upstream programmes aimed at building mental resilience to navigate the stressors experienced in the various domains in life be it