Mind Balance HK

Psychotherapy & Counselling for Individuals and Couples. Corporate Training in Mental Health Psychotherapy & Counselling Consultations

01/03/2023

Toxic relationships, when to leave them, and how to break the cycle?

Toxic relationships can often lead to trauma like depression, anxiety and panic attacks. Even the happiest relationships can turn sour and result in constant conflict. According to Dr Zaidi, no one should ever tolerate such toxicity. These kinds of relationships are harmful to all parties involved a...

28/02/2023

Online Dating Scams and Betrayal Trauma - what do you if you get caught up in dating someone who is not real?

If you would like to set up a session to overcome any past betrayal trauma or to understand your relationship patterns, contact the MindNLife Clinic

27/02/2023

If you have gone through a recent traumatic experience, it is important to manage your mental health carefully to help you and your brain recover.

The aftermath of trauma can be confusing, intense, or even numb and empty. Here are tips on how to protect mental health during recovery.

26/02/2023

Childhood trauma has significant impact on our brain development. Here are some self-care strategies that are important when we are recovering from childhood trauma in adulthood.

Childhood trauma contributes to lasting changes in our brain, impacting thoughts, feelings, relationships. In adulthood, we can counteract these changes through self-care.

25/02/2023

More on trauma and the risks we face online...

Trauma is our mental, emotional, and physical reaction to deeply distressing experiences, often associated with threats to safety and survival of ourselves or people around us. If you have been experiencing symptoms of vicarious trauma and wish to speak to a trauma specialist, please get in touch wi...

24/02/2023

Trauma - and the internet. How to protect yourself from vicarious trauma.

Repeated exposure to violent news reports, videos, and images on media platforms can trigger both direct and vicarious trauma responses. Direct trauma describes our experience of witnessing death, sexual assault, or violent threats to the survival of ourselves and others. Vicarious trauma describes....

23/02/2023

What is trauma - a refresher

Trauma is an experience we go through when we are faced with an event that is deeply distressing and overwhelms our coping abilities. This experience occurs at four levels: cognitive, emotional, physiological, and behavioural. More specifically, if we are dealing with a sudden threat to our wellbein...

22/02/2023

Self-harm in Teenagers - what to do?

Cutting is the most common method of self harm. At least 17% of girls and 5% of boys will have self-harmed by the time they finish school.

21/02/2023

What to say or do when someone's loved one su***ded.
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It can be difficult to know what to say to or do for someone who is grieving the sudden death by su***de of a loved one. Dr. Borschel provides some great insight on this topic in this recent SCMP article. Read the full article here. Dr Monica Borschel is a US-trained Clinical Psychologist who specia...

20/02/2023

Understanding trauma

Trauma occurs when an accident, abuse, loss or something unpredictable causes us to feel emotions such as intense fear, shock, denial and distress. For the most part, people might have trauma reactions such as nightmares, hypervigilance or physical symptoms after a tragic or dangerous event that hea...

19/02/2023

Self-harm in teenagers - why might your teenager be engaging in self-harm?

The modern teenager is under immense social and academic pressure. Not only are teenagers going through rapid hormonal and brain changes

18/02/2023

The three phases of successful trauma therapy, find out more here.

DR. ESSLIN TERRIGHENA introduces the three phases of trauma therapy and what to expect as you are going through them. Trauma by nature overwhelms our system and can have persistent negative effects on our mental health, including emotional, cognitive, physiological, and behavioural. The goal of trau...

17/02/2023

What is the window of tolerance and why is it so important for effective psychotherapy?

DR. ESSLIN TERRIGHENA on the window of tolerance and how it helps to process trauma in therapy. In therapy, we speak about the window of tolerance in which we see therapeutic effects and healing happen. But what is the window of tolerance? Keeping it simple, we can have three states of arousal with....

16/02/2023

Our brains on anxiety - how do scary events get processed and saved in memory?

DR. ESSLIN TERRIGHENA on how our brain regions interact to create anxiety. Our brain is constantly monitoring our environment on the look-out for danger, so it can alert us as early as possible and give us the best chance of survival. Most of this monitoring occurs outside of our conscious awareness...

15/02/2023

Our brain in three parts: reptilian, mammalian, and neocortext. What roles do each of these brain regions play in anxiety and trauma?

DR. ESSLIN TERRIGHENA explains how our triune brain encodes trauma and contributes to trauma responses even years after our traumatic experience. Understanding the triune nature of our brain can shed light on how traumatic events are encoded, processed, and may later trigger trauma responses even lo...

14/02/2023

EMDR Therapy - what to expect during a session.

DR. ESSLIN TERRIGHENA shares what to expect in your EMDR sessions. Often, we go to therapy because we have been grappling with an issue for a while and are reaching a point where we really need external help. Sometimes the step to therapy comes after all other options have been exhausted. As a resul...

13/02/2023

What is EMDR Therapy and why has it become so popular?

DR. ESSLIN TERRIGHENA explains what EMDR Therapy is and how it helps us to process Trauma in a healthy way. EMDR Therapy, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy, is a therapeutic technique that enables individuals to process and heal from traumatic experiences. Research shows that....

12/02/2023

Traumatic experiences are often stored in our body, due to the intensity of our physiological survival response at the time. Find out here how therapy can help our bodies to release trauma.

DR. ESSLIN TERRIGHENA explains how Trauma Therapy can reduce our physical trauma responses. Trauma therapy tackles trauma and its effects on our mental health on four levels: emotions, cognitions, body, and behaviours. Our survival response during a traumatic experience is largely physical: We exper...

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