COUPLES THERAPY
Relationships in Hong Kong are under tremendous stress, especially if a move or a job change has created intrinsic differences in how you function as a couple. Whether you call it Couples Therapy, Couples Counseling, Relationship Counseling or Marriage Counseling, the aim is to have you and your significant other discuss your feelings, facilitate honest and open communication and delve into all the issues affecting the relationship. At MindnLife, our therapists use various evidence-based treatment solutions, including Gottman Couples Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and Solution Focused Couples Therapy, which have proven to be effective in getting to the root cause of the problem and coming up with effective, applicable and practical solutions.
The challenges couples face
- Trailing Spouse Syndrome
- Emotional Disengagement
- Power Struggles
- Resentments
- Money Problems
- Communication Difficulties
- Affairs and Extra Marital Relationships
- Divorce and Family Issues
- Increased Stress due to Work Pressures
- Challenges of Work Life Balance
- Absence of Spouse
Key goals of therapy
- Promote Empathy
- Promote Active listening
- Promote validating each other’s feelings
- Redefining roles and meaning
- Increase desired behaviours/cognitions by increasing tolerance and acceptance of the differences
- Decrease undesirable behaviours that maintain the reinforce coercion
- Improve problem solving skills
- Improve communication skills
OUR EXPERTISE
Areas where our highly experienced Psychologists can provide expert individualised care and support through Psychotherapy and Counselling:
- Addiction (Gambling, Food, Sex/Pornography, Alcohol, Drug and Internet)
- Adjustment to Hong Kong
- Adjustment Disorder
- Alcohol Addiction
- Anger Management
- Asperger’s Syndrome (ASD)
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD)
- Attachment challenges
- Anxiety Disorders
- Bipolar Disorder
- Burnout
- Bullying
- Cancer Support
- Chronic Illness
- Communication Skills
- Conflict Resolution
- Crisis Management
- Cultural Adjustment
- Custody Evaluations
- Cyber safety and Cyber Bullying
- Depression (including Post Natal Partum Depression)
- Divorce and Separation Support
- Employment and Career Challenges
- Family Therapy
- Grief / Loss
- Gender Identity/Identity Issue
- Infidelity
- Insomnia
- Intimacy in relationships
- LGBTQ Issues/ LGBTQ Couples counselling
- Low Self Esteem
- Marriage Counselling
- Menopause Life Transition Support
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Panic Attacks and Disorder
- Parenting Challenges
- Relationship Issues
- Personality Disorders
- Phobias
- Pre and Post Marriage Counselling
- Post Natal/ Partum Depression
- Psychosis
- Relationship Challenges
- Stress Management (Work, Family, Relationships)
- Separation and Divorce
- Sex therapy
- Sexual dissatisfaction in Relationship
- Sexual Trauma and Abuse
- Self harm
- Sleep Problems
- Social Anxiety
- Stress Management
- Substance Abuse/ Addiction
- Suicidal Thoughts
- Supervision for Trainees
- Trauma and Abuse
Read our Love and Relationship Series for more information on how relationships can be affected by the city we live in and what you can do to reconnect.
Book an Appointment
Contact Us for more information or to schedule a session with one of our qualified psychologists.
Please note, we are accepting clients, however, some of our psychologists have waiting lists. We'll do our best to accommmodate your needs.
PRACTICUM AND TRAINING
Please Note: MindnLife Practice does not currently have internship opportunity, and we do not see the need for the near future.
This website contains general information about well being.
This information is not advice, and should not be treated as such neither should it be treated as an alternative to seeking professional advice from a healthcare provider.