Corporate Counselling
& Therapy
Employee Wellbeing 1:1 Support
In the workplace, it’s inevitable that broader market or organisational factors will at times present demands, instabilities, unknowns and less than desirable outcomes.
It also can’t be denied that employees will often put on their ‘working hats’, while already juggling multiple and compounding personal pressures, which may include family and parenting responsibilities, relationships, finances, housing, minority related stressors, perceived stigma, and health related matters.
Despite the higher levels of stress prevalent within Hong Kong’s working population, research has repeatedly highlighted that people, including middle managers and executive leaders, are disinclined to talk about their experience of compromised mental health or wellbeing in the workplace, or seek out professional support (Bupa, 2020; Cigna, 2019; CMHA HK Survey, 2018; Lam et al., 2015).
Such findings impress the importance of:
- Public education to counteract stigma around mental health,
- Advocating for the power of having someone to confidentially speak with, even to just make the best possible sense of things, reflect, explore options and generate simple actions and solutions.
WorkPsych supports employers in advocating for a proactive approach to wellbeing and self care.
Our confidential services are available for professionals, managers and executives seeking a safe space to:
- ‘Pause’, breathe, unravel from the constant clutter of thoughts and feelings.
- Navigate life’s events and compounding stressors.
- Explore and carve out a renewed direction due to restructures, redundancy or revised life direction.
- Develop tools to show up their best, even during the most challenging or trying times.
There isn’t a need to wait until a crisis happens, sessions can be tailored towards enhancing self awareness, increased personal agency, and emotional management skills.
In-person or via telehealth
Private and confidential
Encouraging employees to access optional third-party confidential 1:1 wellbeing sessions, ensures a proactive and positive message about taking the first step to reach out for support!
Wellbeing Support with Karen
With over 20 years’ experience across corporate and medical settings, Karen understands the pressures intersecting between busy professional and personal lives.
Originally from Melbourne Australia, Karen has spent the last fourteen years in Hong Kong. As an expatriate, small business owner, professional services consultant, coach, counselling practitioner, director on Hong Kong Psychological Society’s Council, and mother of two young boys, she has lived the constant tug and juggle of balancing professional and family commitments in this fast paced and ‘always on’ city! She recognises that human urge to at times do more than is expected, set high standards, say ‘yes’ while over extending, pushing boundaries and overcommiting at the expense of other priorities. And ouch, does that hurt and impinge on that sense of balance and wellness!
As a practitioner, Karen is distinguished by her natural ability to establish rapport and connect with people of various cultures, demographics and stages in their career or lifespan. She adopts a client centred, individualised, and empathic approach.
Karen draws upon cognitive-behavioural approaches and enjoys working with clients aspiring to work on their psychological flexibility through the application of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). As a qualified Coach, she also tends towards conversations which are goal focussed, authentic, and collaborative.
As an LGBTQ+ Ally and HKPS Co-Representative for the APA’s International Psychology Network of LGBT issues (IPsynet), Karen advocates for affirmative psychological practices, is knowledgeable about minority specific stressors and adopts a lens of respect and dignity for clients’ individual preferences, values and self determination.
Karen has worked with individuals presenting with various issues impacting on stress levels, anxiety, emotional and mental wellbeing, functioning and overall sense of self, including:
- Work related distress and burnout.
- Life adjustments.
- Strained interpersonal relations and conflict.
- Family of origin.
- Confidence and self esteem.
- Performance related anxiety linked with work events, promotions or increased complexities.
- Reduced motivation and feeling ‘stuck’.
- Energy and time management.
- Boundary management.
- Events triggering questions about direction, meaning and sense of purpose.
- Career change.
- Identity.
- Job insecurity.
- Redundancy and job loss.
- Registered industrial-organisational psychologist in Hong Kong (HKPS)
- Registered psychologist in Australia (AHPRA).
- Master’s in Organisational Psychology and Master’s in Counselling from Monash University.
- IECL Level Two Organisational Coaching.
- Qualified Coach. ICF-ACC.
Karen strives towards
collaborating with clients in:
- Recognising and building self-awareness of patterns of thinking, guiding rules and assumptions.
- Identifying triggers, reactions, behaviours or ways of coping /being.
- Uncovering blindspots, alternative perspectives and new insights.
- Exploring constructive ways to responding to their environment and stressors.
- Connecting with what is important, they stand for in life.
- Making ‘in the moment’ choices, which sit in closer alignment core values, goals and aspirations.
- Inspiring sense of agency, hope and viewing behavioural change as ‘possible’ no matter how big or small!
Availability:
Tuesday to Friday from 10am to 7pm
Early mornings can be arranged with advanced booking.