Individual Profile

I am Connie, a registered clinical psychologist with extensive clinical experience in public hospitals, Department of Health and non-governmental organizations. I am specialized in working with clients with various emotional distresses such as depression and anxiety, assisting them to transform from traumatic experience in the past or childhood to a flourishing life. I also walked with my clients through different life challenges such as work/ study stress, interpersonal and intimate relationship issues, difficult family dynamic, and critical life changes like divorce or retirement. I am a registered EMDR therapist who is specialized in processing past traumatic experience. In my previous work, I was also devoted to mental wellbeing promotion and mental illness prevention in a territory-wide mental health campaign in Hong Kong.

Beyond my clinical work, I am a guest lecturer at local universities teaching teacher-in-training about the educational strategies and interventions for social emotional learning at schools, as well as how to support students with special educational needs to create an inclusive classroom for diverse learning. I also teach mindfulness and low-intensity cognitive behavioral therapy at universities. I am experienced in delivering talks, trainings, workshops, and webinars on mental health topics and mindfulness for NGOs, schools and private companies. I am also a column writer for local magazine Jessica to promote mindfulness and life transformation.

Personally, I have been practicing mindfulness for almost 10 years. Experiencing its “miracle” on my different life stages, I want to bring it to my therapeutic work. So, I have completed various mindfulness teacher trainings over the years (My second baby even went through my year-long mindfulness teacher training and two meditation retreats in my tummy! What a mindful baby.). I am a qualified mindfulness teacher for several secularized evidence-based mindfulness interventions, including Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindful Parenting for adults, as well as Paws b program for 7-11 year olds under the Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP) that wide-spread in the UK. I held numerous mindfulness classes throughout the years; it is one of my visions to spread mindfulness in our community. I am also conducting research on mindfulness at university to promote it to the general public.

As a mindfulness teacher, my therapeutic approach is person-centred. I have strong faith in the life transformational power that hidden inside every single individual, even when we are undergoing our darkest times in life—everyone is the expert of his/ her own life. My work is to walk side-by-side with my clients, using my therapeutic techniques and clinical experience to awaken and unleash their internal power to a wholesome and fulfilling direction. I hope that my clients and their beloved ones can lead a flourishing and satisfactory life.

Along the years, I am grateful for the trust my clients placed in me. Lives are all interconnected. We influence each other. In the meantime, we grow together.