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Secrets To Being A Confident And Capable Parent: An Expert Tells All

Preparation is your key to being a confident and capable parent. No matter what stage you're at, having more information and support will help you. This is simple, but we all forget this. As you become a parent help yourself and your partner by adjusting ...

From Trauma Victim To Trauma Therapist: Meet Noah Mugenyi

Overcoming trauma is incredibly challenging in itself. Overcoming trauma and then making your life about dealing with it, is even harder. Psychotherapist Noah Mugenyi did just that! Read on to learn about his journey from trauma victim to trauma therapist...

Mental Health Tips & Support Services For New Dads

Are you a new dad and worried about how you're dealing with your child? It's normal for new fathers to be overwhelmed. While most mothers can continue caring for their child while experiencing mental health issues, fathers tend to react differently: by di...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) From Giving Birth? Is That Possible?

Giving birth can be traumatic! Having children is a part of life that many people fantasize about. This leads to expectations and ideals that are often not in tune with reality. Furthermore, mothers are particularly vulnerable around the time they give bi...

Mental Health Tips For Executives – Musing With Mugenyi

"Stress is a part of life, but it is not a way of life." Stress and anxiety in the workplace have always existed and will likely always exist. However, we can do a much better job of managing these and other mental health issues. Executives and managers m...

Dealing With Culture Shock In The Workplace, In Singapore And Beyond

Settling into the workplace in Singapore can be challenging for anyone. With a tremendous diversity of cultural backgrounds present even within a single team it's easy to suffer from culture shock, especially if you're a new expat. In general, dealing wit...

Hear What This Mental Health Expert Has To Say About Maternal Mental Health

What is maternal mental health and why is it important? What do anxiety and depression have to do with giving birth to and parenting a child? Silvia Wetherell answers these questions and provides insight into why they are important as she explains how and...

3 Techniques That Will Reduce Your Stress And Anxiety

Pressures at home or work weighing you down? In a recent post, I wrote about [10 thinking traps](/blog/10-thinking-traps) that can cause you unnecessary stress and anxiety. This is a follow up post offering 3 techniques that will reduce your stress and an...

Is My Expat Child Going Through Depression?

Have you noticed changes in your child's behavioral patterns while adjusting to the expat lifestyle in Singapore? Are you wondering if they're simply homesick or if something more serious, such as depression, is to blame? --- Moving to a new place can be ...

Fight or Flight: Why Certain Types of Stress Can Get in Your Way

Although humans, and the environments we find ourselves in, have evolved tremendously in the past few hundred years, we still carry some primal instincts with us, such as the fight-or-flight (FoF) response. At first consideration, such behavior may seem o...

Reduce Your Stress at Work by Catching These 10 Thinking Traps

Sometimes the way we choose to think about something can have a tremendous impact on the way that thing affects us. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) suggests that our emotions and behaviors can be influenced by our thoughts. --- There are common tendenc...

Expat Marriages in Singapore - Not as Easy as They Look

While there are many benefits to expat life, it certainly does not come without its own significant challenges. Changes in work-life balance and feelings of increased loneliness can lead to marital problems that may seem difficult to overcome. In the eyes...

Anger Management Techniques

Whatever they might show in the movies or the soaps, getting angry gets you nowhere. Except into trouble, into a hospital, out of relationships and [out of a job](/blog/the-impact-of-workplace-stress-and-anxiety). People who lose their temper all the time...

Workplace Stress, How Therapy Can Help & Inner-Child Work: An Interview with Singapore Counselor Richard Logan

What therapy techniques can help us manage stress in the workplace and general anxiety? And in therapy, why is it common to talk about our childhood? On a sunny afternoon, we spoke with the Singapore-based therapist, Richard Logan

New Parents: Dealing with Postnatal & Postpartum Depression

Excitement, lack of sleep and perhaps experiencing some of the baby blues . New families should focus on supporting the mental wellness of their new and expanding family! Making the transition into parenting is like nothing you've done before Perhaps you ...

Singapore Therapy & Counseling Services

Find the right therapist, counselor, nutritionist or other wellness professional for you in Singapore! Singapore is arguably home to some of the most talented psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health and medical experts in the region (and world). With ...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): OCD Symptoms, Causes & More..

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder that impacts both children and adults. What is OCD? The National Institute of Health of the United States defines OCD as a long-lasting and chronic disorder “in which a person has uncontrollable, ...

Mental Health Issues in Singapore

As Singapore grapples with an aging population and social stigma associated with reaching out for help for mental health issues, the national government is putting more resources towards improving health-related data and support systems. “With the highest...

Work Life Balance: The Need for Self-Awareness & Care

The balance between work and life starts with self-awareness, out of which one is able to self-care and regulate emotions accordingly. --- Being able to express the needs at hand and heart requires more than a thought process. On another hand, [when emoti...

Signs of Depression & Depression Symptoms

Does your friend need help and maybe more than just a shoulder to cry on? These are seven evident signs of depression in someone you may know. Access to healthcare is one of the most important issues facing the human race today. We are working hard to imp...