Therapists in New Territories

Change is uncertain and stressful as it is. Our body and emotions may respond in a way that is overwhelming and confusing. I can imagine how daunting, isolating and stuck one may feel. I hope to help you understand what your emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and body are trying to communicate to you. You can learn more adaptive ways of understanding and coping with your circumstances. With practice, it is relieving to reclaim your bandwidth and time to rest and pursue meaningful goals.

I often meet clients as they are reaching the limits of their abilities to handle life's surprises. This doesn't necessarily mean that their lives are falling apart, but they're recognising what is working for them now may not always work and they're seeking new ideas and new ways to live. Whether that is handling stress at work, dealing with conflicts in their relationships, clients I work with often feel like they're coming up short and are unable to break through - in short, like they're stuck. They want to try something new but are unsure what may work and are looking for resources and support to build themselves up.

I am deeply passionate about helping those who feel lost or overwhelmed when faced with uncertainty or challenging life transitions. I work with adults, kids and teens struggling with anxiety, loss, and change. My clients are often living in a state of stress and survival and are stuck in cycles of fear, overthinking, and self-doubt. If this sounds familiar, I can help you to feel safer, calmer, and more self-assured. Whether you are struggling with thoughts of not being good enough, a sense of purpose and meaning, grief, relationship issues, parenting, workplace or academic stress, I can help you find hope and a way forward.

Stella helps her clients make sense of overwhelming emotions that are getting in the way of life, navigate difficult relationships, think in ways that are more fruitful, heal and move forward from hurts, and grow in self awareness and resilience. She has helped clients struggling with depression, anxiety, anger, grief, loss of relationships, low self-esteem, family conflicts, parenting issues, marital/dating issues, work place issues, insomnia, career transition and Christian faith issues. She has years of experience helping people from various cultures, and is fluent in English and Cantonese.

Do you experience anxiety, depression, fear, pressure, sadness or low self-esteem due to some personal issues? Or do you have problems with your spouse regarding communication, frequent conflicts, mutual acceptance, parenting, intimacy or extra-marital affair? Or actually you are trying to recover from divorce pain? Or you simply would like to have premarital counseling with your love one?

Wherever you are at right now, I believe in you. I am fully invested in doing my part to help you connect to and use your inner resources. So you can start to move forward and start living your life in a way that is meaningful and satisfying to you. “The greatest gift is the freedom to be who we really are through the journey of understanding ourselves." Specialising in relief from anxiety, chronic pain and recovery from trauma, I can also help if you’re experiencing panic attacks, lack or loss of confidence, performance setbacks, relationship struggles, grief, loss, a personal crisis or life transitions.

I'm a trauma-informed therapist using a relational approach to help client transform unhelpful patterns, live more freely and fully, find lasting joy, and build satisfying relationships. In you I see a unique and complex person with your individualised temperaments, feelings, relational patterns, and unmet needs. In therapy, we dissect your distress from a compassionate angle and fathom how the past is affecting our present difficulties. Positive changes follow as we get to express what was repressed, clear blockages, hence expand the freedom to make self-directed choices in life. I'm trilingual and speak English/Cantonese/Mandarin.