How to Deal With an Existential Crisis?
An existential crisis happens when you start questioning life’s big picture, meaning, purpose, values, or even your own identity. It can feel unsettling, but you’re not alone if you’re wrestling with these thoughts. This guide explores what an existential crisis really is, why it happens, how it shows up in your life, and practical steps […]
Finding Meaning in Life: When the Rat Race Makes Us Lose Ourselves
A session with a client I had recently brought up some reflections about finding the meaning in life that stayed with me long after our time ended. She was reflecting on her year and was feeling like she didn’t achieve anything, no tangible outputs or accomplishments to show for it. When I pointed out that […]
What Are the Existential Therapy Techniques?
Existential therapy techniques are ways therapists help people tackle the big, sometimes uncomfortable questions in life. Instead of focusing on symptoms or step-by-step fixes like some popular therapies do, existential therapy is all about exploring what it means to be alive. Think of it as working together to examine meaning, responsibility, freedom, and dealing with […]
What Is Marriage Counselling? Understanding How It Helps Couples Reconnect Authentically
Marriage counseling is all about helping couples find their way back to one another when life gets tangled. It’s a process where partners come together with a professional to examine what’s really going on, whether that’s constant arguments, cold silences, or simply a sense that something’s shifted. At its heart, marriage counseling invites honest conversation […]
My Therapist Passed Away — What I’m Learning About Endings
When does something actually end? Is it when we stop showing up? When we stop talking? Or only when we realise—deep down—that it won’t begin again? These are questions I’ve sat with often, especially in therapy spaces. But lately, I’ve been sitting with them more personally. A month back, I heard news of my therapist […]
Understanding ‘Otherness’: Phenomenological Practice in Cross-Cultural Encounters
Being positioned as different. I am a psychologist and I work on a doctoral programme in the UK. I have found the world to be far more complex than most psychological theorists suggest, and that is why I have taken up an approach which we refer to as ‘phenomenological.’ Phenomenology is a practice that is […]
Working with Stuckness in the Room
I stare at the clock as the minutes crawl by, feeling trapped in a groundhog day. No matter what doors I try to open, each one leads to a dead end or resistance. I want to do something yet feel powerless, any momentum halted by a wall I cannot seem to break through. Self-doubt creeps […]
What Does an Existential Crisis Look Like?
Existential crisis is like a call from our soul. It is calling out to us to live more meaningfully. As long as we are humans, we can’t avoid going through an existential crisis. Even psychotherapists do. In fact, I went through one myself in 2020. Let’s walk down memory lane. Lockdown in Singapore 2 weeks […]
Coping With Anxiety
Living with anxiety can be very tiring. At this time, it is important to look after your physical health, practice good sleep hygiene and form strong and healthy support networks. Keeping up with a meditation practice or even just practicing breathing exercises has shown help some of us cope and feel more in control. Apps […]
Reflections: How Did I Become an Authenticity Researcher?
For a long time now, I have always wondered if authenticity and being Asian are compatible. Having grown up in Singapore and coming from a traditional Chinese family, I’ve been taught to greet my elders and respect authority figures. We have a saying in mandarin, ‘ 入得厨房 出得厅堂’. It means that an ideal woman is […]