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Understanding and Managing Unhelpful Thinking Styles

Are unhelpful thinking styles holding you back? Discover how automatic patterns of thought can distort your reality, fuel anxiety and depression, and hinder self-growth. Learn to recognize and challenge these styles with expert guidance from Counsellor Lim Swee Chen.

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Mastering Life’s Challenges: A Deep Dive into Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Are you struggling with your emotions? Is this creating problems in your interpersonal relationship? Counselling with Dialectical Behaviour Therapy may be the answer.

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What is EMDR and is it for you? by Shifan Hu-Couble

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) is the gold standard for trauma treatment. Find out from Counsellor & Psychotherapist Shifan Hu-Couble what is entailed in an EMDR session and what issues it can be used for.

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Post-Natal Depression

While mums understand that their life will change with a baby, the hardest to cope will be that of post-natal depression. Find out what PND is, how to support your loved ones who are undergoing post-natal depression, and how your psychologist, counsellors, or psychotherapist can help.

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Help? My Child has Depression!

As parents, we devoted our whole life to ensure our child(ren) are safe and well. Therefore, it comes as a shock for the parents to discover that our kids or teens are depressed! Many questions will run through our mind: Was it something I’ve done? Why are my kids depressed when they have everything? This is a phase they are going through, right? Maybe they are attention seeking? How can I know when it’s serious? How can I keep them safe? What can I do? Should I send my child to a counsellor, psychologist, or therapist? How can the counsellor, psychologist, or therapist help them/ me/ us?

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