Clients' Therapy Experiences With Eunice
Eunice is an amazing therapist to work with. Her compassionate, patient and grounded approach helped me tremendously as I processed past traumatic experiences and intense emotions. The sessions gave me a safe space to begin healing from deep wounds, and I gained clarity and new insights on how to move towards the future I wanted to see. I highly recommend Eunice to anyone who has anxiety, depression, poor self-esteem, or who needs a new perspective on challenging situations. She truly has a gift for nurturing growth in people!
R.E.T. Adult client working with difficult emotions and trauma
WHERE I PRACTISE
InPsyche Journeys Psychological Growth & Discovery
- Awakening
- Self-Discovery
- Empowerment
- Morph
- Meaningful Lives
A Journey Together & Within
Over the years, my clients have taught me about important processes that take place in our therapy sessions, and shaped how I see as well as conduct therapy. InPsyche Journeys is born to celebrate my past and present clients, and my hope to share my style of practice that was inspired by them with clients – present and future.
Here are the essential themes of what clients have taught me – and have been coined as the motto of InPsyche Journeys! May you revel in these as we work together!
Journeying Together, Self-Discovery, Awakening & Empowerment
Therapy is a journey that both the clients and I go on together to facilitate clients’ self-discovery and to awaken clients’ awareness of things that lie deep within them (their Psyche) such as, their strengths, hopes, values, beliefs, dreams as well as their fears, emotions and emotional wounds. In the process, clients get a better understanding of what “clicks” and what “trips” them up from becoming the unique individuals they are, which empowers them to work towards their best hopes.
Meaningful Lives
Journeying with clients to bring about their self-discovery, awakening, and empowerment, I help clients to discover purpose beyond resolving their problems or symptoms – that is, how will life be different and meaningful when their problems/symptoms get just even a little smaller?
Morphing & Growth
Just like a caterpillar which slowly morphs into a butterfly or like a fern that is slowly unfurling, every client in therapy is allowed to progress and transform at their own pace, embracing gradual steps. They have the freedom to take breaks to practice new skills or to navigate the next phase of change. It’s entirely normal to encounter “off days” where clients may stumble, experience setbacks, and gain valuable insights from these experiences.
My Guiding Principle: Solution-Oriented Lens
Focusing on problem-oriented talk often contributes to clients feeling “stuck” or trapped in their challenges. Instead, I go one step further and ask clients solution-oriented questions like:
- “How will life be different for you when the problem reduces even a little?”
- “What needs to happen to help you move towards that?”
- “What will you like from our work together to help you with that?”
- “What is one tiny indicator that you will notice when the problem becomes just even a little better?”
These solution-oriented questions can help loosen the grip that problems often have on clients, while opening up to them the possibility of visualising and creating differences in their situations. With this new possibility in mind, clients often become more ready to identify small steps that they can take to address their challenges, which increases their self-confidence and empowerment, and in turn contribute to further small steps of actions.
I facilitate clients by highlighting things that they did well, identify their underlying strengths that supported their successes and obstacles that hindered them, then construct together the next step to take. In the process, clients often become more ready to address more complex aspects of their problems as we progress.
A Customised Approach
Each client is a unique individual. This means that each client experiences and works through their challenges differently, even though some of these challenges may be commonly encountered by people. Therefore, while I draw on evidence-based approaches when working with clients, I customise each client’s therapeutic interventions by considering various things (e.g. individual’s needs, level of readiness, personal characteristics, response to the approaches used and the “therapist-person fit”), instead of delivering a run-of-the-mill therapy
Psychological therapy
What is therapy
- A safe working relationship between a therapist and a client (includes family/significant others, where relevant).
- Working together to identify areas of challenges to address and areas of change to work towards
- Having meaningful therapeutic conversations in a safe, supportive and non-judgemental space which promotes clients’ self-discovery about their fears, issues, strengths and hopes, and learning of new skills
- Growing clients' confidence and empowerment to try out new skills and strategies at their own pace, in order to bring about their desired change in small steps.
- "Talk therapy" is not the only "format" of therapy! I also use Expressive Therapy approaches that help clients to understand and express themselves better in fun, less threatening ways that rely less on words (e.g. Sandplay & Symbol Work, drawing, use of props) - especially useful when words are not enough or do not exist to describe certain experiences.
What is NOT therapy?
Quick fixes
Therapy is not about quick fixes- giving advice, dishing out solutions, making decisions for clients, or to produce immediate changes, contrary to what many people believe. Instead therapy is about a sustained effort – teaching someone to fish so they can fish for their life-long survival, instead of offering them fish on a short-term basis.
Who I Work With
Pre-teens
10 to 12 year-old individuals
Adults
- Individuals (21 years old and above)
- Seniors
- Couples
Languages I Speak to Conduct Therapy
- English
- Mandarin
- Hokkien
My Areas of Clinical Interest
Mood difficulties
- Low mood
- High levels of anxiety
- Mood difficulties associated with life events, medical condition; diagnoses of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder)
- School-related Difficulties
- Anxiety, fear or avoidance of school
- Stress about studies
- Relationship difficulties with school mates
- More common in children and adolescents
- Increased irritability
- Increased anger
- More frequent outbursts
- Become more quiet, withdrawn
- Poor sleep, bedwetting
Difficulties coping with emotions
Do you or your loved ones have the following?
- Fear and dislike of your emotions
- Doing things to block or avoid having emotions (e.g. self-harm behaviours, keeping yourself overly occupied with activities to distract yourself from emotions)
- Getting stuck and not knowing what to do with difficult or uncomfortable emotions
- Up and down
Relationship Difficulties
- Difficulties with interpersonal difficulties
- Relationship difficulties between couples
Making sense of adjustment and transitions
Making Sense of Adjustments & Transitions Examples:
- Grief and Loss
- Death of loved ones
- Loss of role in daily life (such as due to loss of a job, health)
- Disruption of One’s Dreams and Hopes
- New Life Role (e.g. adapting to new roles in marriage)
- Re-Locating To Another Country
Areas of Special Interest
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Existential Explorations
- Women’s Mental Health
- Supporting the Emotional Well-being of Fellow Healthcare Professionals
- Mental Wellness of Individuals with Certain Health Conditions (e.g. Irritable Bowel Syndrome)
Therapeutic Approaches That I Draw From
- Solution Focused Brief Therapy
- Mindful Self Compassion Based Interventions
- Expressive Therapies: Sandplay & Symbol Work
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Schema Therapy
- Gottman Method of Couple Therapy
- Systematic Therapy Approach
Support Groups
The Support Group comprises 3 1.5-hour sessions. Each group is designed to have 4 to 8 participants.
There will be 2 options of days/dates during the registration to enrol in the Support Group in each run.
When the maximum number of participants has been reached for each group, participants are invited to the next concurrent group in the same run. Alternatively, they are invited to join one of the 2 groups in the next run.
Support Group#1: "Work That's 'I'
Have you ever:
Wondered what you are doing in your current job?
Found yourself feeling stuck in your role, wondering what could be “off”?
Felt obligated to stay in your current job due to some commitments that you have to fulfil?
Most important of all, you may experience feelings of boredom, low mood, frustration and maybe even burn-out in the midst of this. If you find yourself in any of these situations or anything else that is similar, you may be interested to check out this support group.
Next Run
What The Group is About
This support group is designed to facilitate support amongst individuals who are in situations that are similar to the ones above, by increasing feelings of connection with others in the same boated while learning from fellow participants and offering your ideas too – which will be of immense benefit to fellow participants. -The facilitator – me, will be facilitating the interactions amongst the participants as well as to share some new ways of viewing what goes on behind Work.