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When a Parent Has Cancer: Supporting Your Child Through the Journey
When a parent has cancer, one of the hardest questions can be how to support your child through the uncertainty. What should you tell them, how much can they understand, and how might they respond? Counsellor & Parenting Coach, Lim Swee Chen, explores how children and teenagers at different developmental stages may experience a parent’s cancer diagnosis, with practical guidance for helping them feel informed, secure and supported.
When Words Aren't Enough: How Expressive Arts Therapy Can Help
When words cannot quite capture what you are feeling, creativity can offer another way in. Expressive arts therapy uses art, movement, imagery, writing and other forms of expression to explore emotions and experiences — and this work can be surprisingly powerful online. Find out with Integrative Therapist, Calista Goh-Therond.
When Your Partner Is Autistic: Why You May Feel Lonely or Unseen in Your Relationship
You can know that your autistic partner loves you and still feel lonely, disconnected or emotionally unseen in the relationship. When love is expressed and received in different ways, both partners can end up feeling misunderstood despite genuinely caring for each other. Learn why this happens in neurodiverse relationships with Counsellor, Lim Swee Chen, how to communicate your emotional needs more clearly, and what can help you build a stronger sense of connection.
Parenting with ADHD: Overcoming Burnout, Executive Dysfunction, and Parental Guilt
Feeling overwhelmed by routines, clutter, and sensory overload? You aren't failing, you're parenting with ADHD! Learn why masking fails after having kids, how to handle burnout, and where to find support.
Why Am I Overthinking Everything? How to Stop Overthinking and Quiet Your Mind
Can’t stop replaying conversations, second-guessing decisions or worrying about what might happen next? Overthinking can keep you awake at night, make simple decisions feel overwhelming and leave you unable to switch off. Learn why we get stuck overthinking, how it relates to anxiety, and practical ways to quiet your mind and break the cycle with Psychologist, Ho Shee Wai.
“I’m Fine”: Why Men Hide Their Feelings and Struggle to Ask for Help
Why do so many men say “I’m fine” when they’re struggling? Counsellor Ben Ang explores why men hide their feelings, how emotional distress can show up as anger or withdrawal, and what can help men open up and seek support.
Sibling Rivalry: Why Your Kids Keep Fighting and What Parents Can Do
Why are my kids always fighting? Sibling rivalry can leave parents exhausted and wondering when to step in—or whether they’re making things worse. Counsellor & Parenting Coach, Paula Brunning, explains why siblings fight and shares practical ways to help children manage jealousy, regulate emotions, communicate better and turn everyday conflicts into lifelong relationship skills.
ADHD at Work: From Surviving to Thriving in Your Career
ADHD can make work feel overwhelming, unstimulating—or both. Psychologist & Supervised Counsellor, Ewelina Sawicka, shares how understanding your strengths, working style, and environment can help you build a career that works with your brain, not against it.
Nice vs Kind: Why Being "Too Nice" Can Damage Relationships More Than You Think
Many people believe being nice makes them a better partner, parent, friend or colleague. But constantly putting other people's comfort before your own can lead to resentment, weak boundaries and emotional exhaustion. Integrative Therapist, Calista Goh-Therond, explains why understanding the difference between being nice and being kind can help you build healthier relationships based on honesty, respect and genuine care rather than approval.
Why Your Child Has Tantrums: Understanding Difficult Behaviour
If your child has frequent tantrums, refuses to listen, hits siblings, or argues over everyday routines, you're not alone. Many parents worry they have a "difficult child," but behaviour is often more complex than simple disobedience. Supervised Marriage & Family Therapist shares understanding why children misbehave can help parents respond in ways that reduce conflict and strengthen the parent-child relationship.
Rejection Sensitivity in ADHD, Autism, Depression & Borderline Personality Disorder: Why It Hurts So Much—and What You Can Do About It
Why can a delayed text, neutral expression or small piece of feedback feel so painful? Rejection sensitivity is often dismissed as “being too sensitive”, but it can arise through different pathways in ADHD, autism, depression and borderline personality disorder. Director and Registered Psychologist Ho Shee Wai explores what may lie behind these reactions, how they affect everyday life and what can help.
Why Men Suddenly Stop Trying in Relationships (It's Often Not What You Think)
Why do some men stop trying in dating or relationships? It is often assumed to be anger, entitlement, or a loss of interest. Yet for many men, emotional withdrawal develops more quietly through repeated rejection, diminished confidence, and the growing sense that effort no longer leads to connection. Sex Therapist and Relationship Counsellor Dr Martha Tara Lee explains how understanding these different pathways helps distinguish healthy self-protection from emotional avoidance, controlling behaviour, and patterns of disengagement that can ultimately harm relationships.
Unstacking Grief in Third Culture Kids: Understanding Layered Loss
Repeated moves, interrupted friendships and changing ideas of home can leave Third Culture Kids carrying losses that others may not recognise. Counsellor & Parenting Coach, Paula Brunning, explores how the Unstacking Method helps Adult TCKs and internationally mobile families understand layered grief, build emotional safety and make sense of experiences accumulated across countries and life stages.
"I Don’t Feel Like Myself Anymore": Unpacking Identity Loss in Adulthood
Feeling disconnected or burnt out? Explore why you don't feel like yourself anymore and how counselling in Singapore can help you navigate life transitions.
When Moving Abroad Costs You Your Identity: The Reality for Expat Partners
Moving abroad for a partner’s career can bring exciting opportunities, but it can also lead to lost identity, loneliness and relationship strain. This article explores the often-overlooked experience of accompanying partners and how couples can protect the well-being of both people during relocation.
Is Your Teen Addicted to Gaming? When It’s More Than Just a Game
When a teenager’s gaming starts affecting sleep, school, mood, or family relationships, it may be more than just a screen time issue. In this article, Zachariah Lail explores how problematic gaming can become part of a wider family pattern, and why rebuilding trust, communication, and connection often matters as much as setting limits.
I’ve Always Felt Different. Could It Be Autism or ADHD?
Many adults spend years feeling different, overwhelmed or out of step with others. Counsellor, Lim Swee Chen, explores how autism and ADHD can show up in adulthood, why they are often missed, and when it may be worth seeking professional support.
Why Good People Sometimes Hurt the People They Love
People do not always hurt the ones they love because they care less. Often, they are reacting from old survival patterns, emotional triggers, stress or shame. Counsellor, Ben Ang, explains why understanding these patterns can help couples move from blame to repair.
What Is Intensive Interaction? How Non-Verbal Connection Supports Autism, Special Needs, and Relationships
Many people assume communication begins with words, but meaningful connection often starts much earlier. Intensive Interaction is a relationship-based approach that uses shared attention, body language, sounds, and emotional attunement to build trust and communication, particularly for individuals with autism and complex communication needs. In this article, Integrative Psychotherapist, Calista Goh-Therond, explores what Intensive Interaction is, why behaviour is communication, and how its principles can strengthen relationships between children, teenagers, adults, parents, partners, and caregivers.
Independent, Successful — and Uninterested in Sex
Can someone be independent, successful, and simply lose interest in sex? Sex Therapist & Relationship Counsellor, Dr Martha Tara Lee, explores why low sexual desire is not always a problem to fix, but may reflect changing priorities, autonomy, or emotional self-protection—and how to tell the difference.