We Help with the Following Mental Health & Wellbeing Challenges

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All of us have some degree of normal worrying. However, if your worrying starts to be excessive and involves mostly hypothetical scenarios or unlikely or remote future events, it might start to affect your daily functioning and your relationships. You might find yourself spending an unusual amount of time worrying about things that might happen, worrying about what people might be thinking of you, you might avoid certain situations or people, and you might constantly be seeking reassurance. You might often feel anxious, nervous, apprehensive, your muscles tense up and you tire easily. We can help you. 

We may all feel down from time to time, but depression is much more than that. You might be feeling down or dejected most of the day, most days of the week, over a few weeks. You might be feeling fatigued or tired a lot of the time, sleeping too much or too little, eating too much or too little, have less interest in the things that interested you before, feel indecisive, unable to concentrate, feeling fidgety or moving and speaking slowly than normal, and feeling worthless, guilty or very self-critical. We can help you.

We, humans, are social beings. We are wired to connect with other people. Relationships are a key part of our lives bringing us happiness, fulfilment and support. However, some relationships are hard. They could be with a romantic partner, parents, siblings, friends or work colleagues. You might be experiencing a broken relationship caused by a betrayal, rifts caused by differences, frequent quarrels, unreasonable control, disrespect and intimidation. These can cause you to feel emotional distress, insecurity and even loneliness. We can help you.

The current state of your marriage is so far from what you envisioned when you said “I do”. You might be experiencing never-ending fighting, constant anger and irritation with each other, that the love that was once there has died, lack of intimacy, an inability to agree on anything, you can’t bear to even be in the same room as your spouse or infidelity. You may choose to reconcile and improve your marriage or decide that divorce is the only answer. Conflict doesn’t mean the marriage needs to come to an end, and divorce doesn’t need to be a battleground. We can help you.

Short-term stress can help us deal with the challenges that come our way in life. It can give us the impetus and adrenaline to get tasks accomplished. However, when we don’t manage the stress and cope well, it starts to overwhelm us. You might be experiencing stress over an extended period of time without being able to alter or alleviate it – it could be work stress, academic stress, financial stress or emotional stress. When you are overcome with stress, you might start to feel empty, numb, demotivated, hopeless and even beyond caring. You might even be close to or already be experiencing burnout – which is a state of emotional and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. We can help you.

We all experience a level of career change at some point in our lives. It might be a change in role, change in seniority, change in salary earned, change in company or even change in industry. It is well and good when the change happens as a result of your plan or goal. However, some of these changes might not have been intended or planned, and might have been forced upon you. With the economic challenges faced by organisations, you might have been retrenched and left without a job, asked to re-skill for another role, assigned to another department you are not familiar with or given a role with a lower salary. These changes can be frustrating, erode your self-confidence, leave you feeling insecure and be demotivating. We can help you.

You might be struggling at work. Each morning you might be having to force yourself out of bed to get ready for work, you might find that you no longer enjoy your work or your work environment, you might be lacking motivation, you might be feeling frustrated, your colleagues are not easy to get along with, and you might even be experiencing bullying at work. You might be feeling low at work, have trouble concentrating and struggle to see the light at the end of the tunnel. We can help you.

Body image refers to how we see our own body and how attractive we feel in that body. Society, social media and popular culture often shape our views and how we feel about our own bodies. It is common for us to have some concerns about our appearance, weight, skin, hair, or the shape or size of a certain body part – in the interest of having a healthy body. However, negative body image can lead to serious problems including low self-esteem, low self-confidence, depression and even eating disorders. You may be seeing parts of your body in a distorted way (others don’t see it the same way), constantly comparing yourself with others and feeling inadequate, feeling intense dissatisfaction with your body, be very critical of your own appearance or weight, and you may have even resorted to unsafe weight loss habits or unnecessary surgery. You may be feeling sad, anxious, guilty, irritable, frustrated and lonely. We can help you.

Change is the only constant in life (Heraclitus, circa 500BC). But sometimes, the change is not what we expected or what we want in life. Becoming a new parent, loss of a loved one to death, losing your job, being diagnosed with an unexpected illness, meeting with an accident that left you with a disability, going through menopause, being single again after a divorce, mid-life crisis and entering retirement may pose challenging transitions in life. You may be feeling lost, low in mood, hopeless, insecure, overwhelmed, angry, guilty or lack motivation to do anything. We can help you.