Blogs and Podcasts
Fostering Workplace Well-Being: Strategies for Creating a Supportive and Resilient Work Environment
Mental health plays a crucial role in the success and functionality of workplace environments. Unfortunately, mental health concerns often go unaddressed, significantly impacting employees' well-being, engagement, and productivity. Fostering a supportive and resilient...
Understanding & Healing Codependency
Codependency is not a diagnosable disorder. Rather, it describes an extreme tendency to overinvest and involve oneself in the emotions, needs, affairs, and wellbeing of others at the expense of one’s own to maintain relationships with them. This manifests as the subordination of oneself for others to ensure the stability of their relationships and represents the codependent person’s drive, whether conscious or unconscious, to fulfill their own unmet needs around love, acceptance, validation, and more.
Supporting Teenagers Through Mental Health Challenges: A Guide to Adolescent Counselling
The teenage years can be exceptionally challenging for both adolescents and their parents, as young individuals navigate the complex landscape of physical and emotional changes, peer relationships, and academic pressures. Consequently, many teenagers experience mental...
Understanding the Benefits and Types of Virtual Counselling
In recent years, the digital age has revolutionized various aspects of our lives, including how we access mental health support. Virtual counselling has become an increasingly popular option for individuals seeking help for their mental health and wellbeing needs....
Managing Stress and Building Resilience: How Counselling Can Empower Your Well-Being
In today's fast-paced world, stress has become an inescapable component of our daily lives. With increasing demands on our time, energy, and resources, many individuals face mounting pressure from various aspects of their lives – be it work, personal relationships, or...
Supporting Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience unique needs and challenges that, when properly addressed, can significantly impact their development, well-being, and overall quality of life. ASD is a developmental disability characterized by communication...
Overcoming Communication Challenges in Relationships through Couples Counselling
Effective communication constitutes the backbone of any healthy and successful romantic relationship. It allows partners to express their thoughts, feelings, needs, and desires openly and honestly, fostering a deep emotional connection, understanding, and trust....
Overcoming Anxiety and Building Resilience through Counselling
Anxiety is a prevalent and often pervasive mental health concern affecting millions of individuals worldwide. It manifests as excessive worry, restlessness, irritability, and physical symptoms such as rapid heartbeat, fatigue, and difficulty concentrating. The impact...
How Mindfulness Counselling Accelerates Personal Growth
In recent years, the practice of mindfulness has gained increasing recognition and popularity in the realms of mental health and well-being. With roots in ancient meditative practices, mindfulness involves developing an intentional awareness of the present moment,...
Body Positivity: When You Can’t be Body-Positive, be Body-Neutral
Body positivity is a movement that invites individuals to love and accept their bodies, regardless of size, appearance, or ability. The movement focuses on resisting harmful beauty standards by celebrating body diversity. For some, body-positive strategies can be a powerful way to nurture unconditional self-acceptance and transform negative thoughts. Rather than believing societally imposed messages about body ideals, body positivity encourages self-love through affirmations such as “I am beautiful” or “I love my body just as it is.”
