Existential Therapy for Identity & Meaning in Singapore
Can you be yourself and still belong?
Perhaps you have spent years becoming the person others could rely on. You have learnt what is expected of you, how to maintain relationships, and how to keep life moving. Yet there may also be a quieter sense that something important has been left behind. Not because your life is wrong, but because you have had very little opportunity to ask what feels genuinely your own. I’m Dr. Mag, a Counselling Psychologist and founder of Encompassing Therapy. Through existential therapy, we explore questions of identity, freedom, belonging, and what it might mean to live more honestly within the life you already have.
Why People Come to Therapy for Identity and Authentic Self
Sometimes, adapting means losing sight of yourself.
Perhaps you know how to be the dependable one. The good daughter, the thoughtful partner, the capable leader, the person others turn to. These roles may be real parts of you, but when they are the only parts that have room to exist, life can begin to feel smaller than it looks from the outside.
In many families and communities, love is often expressed through responsibility, restraint, and not disappointing the people who matter. These expectations may come from care and culture, not cruelty. Yet over time, they can make it difficult to hear your own voice clearly. Somewhere between showing up for others and quietly losing sight of yourself, the question begins to surface: Is this the life I truly want to live?
Authenticity is not about rejecting who you have been. It is about becoming more aware of who you are.
Existential therapy does not rush this question or try to answer it on your behalf. It offers a place to stay with it, understand where it comes from, and consider how you want to live in response.
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Who Existential Therapy for Identity and Authentic Self Is For
Existential therapy for the authentic self and identity may be a fit if you:
- Feel unsure who you are outside your roles and responsibilities
- Often choose what keeps the peace, then feel strangely distant from yourself
- Have achieved many of the things you hoped would feel enough, yet still feel something is missing
- Struggle to tell the difference between your values and others’ expectations
- Notice yourself becoming a different person depending on who you are with
- Want to live more honestly without losing connection with family or community
- Feel caught between the wish to be yourself and the wish to belong
- Are asking deeper questions about meaning, identity, and how to live
Living Honestly Begins by Noticing Where You Disappear
Before existential therapy for identity and the authentic self
- Carrying roles that feel too tight but too familiar to question
- Saying yes before knowing what you actually feel
- Performing competence, ease, or happiness while feeling genuinely unseen
- Wondering why doing everything ‘right’ still doesn’t feel like enough
- Hiding parts of yourself to stay acceptable or to avoid conflict
- Feeling guilty whenever your own needs become visible
After existential therapy for identity and the authentic self
- Recognizing the roles you inhabit without being reduced to them
- Saying yes and no with more honesty
- Feeling clearer about what belongs to you and what was inherited
- Holding family, culture, and community without disappearing into them
- Making choices that feel more genuinely your own
- Feeling more at home with yourself
How Existential Therapy for Identity and Authentic Self Works
Together, we explore how you came to live this way.
Existential therapy is not about discovering a hidden version of yourself or becoming someone entirely different. It begins with curiosity about the life you are already living. Together, we explore the relationships, expectations, choices, and experiences that have shaped how you understand yourself today.
Some of these ways of being may still feel deeply right. Others may no longer fit. Rather than deciding too quickly what should change, we take time to understand what each part of your life has meant, and what it continues to ask of you.
What the work actually involves:
- Exploring the relationships, responsibilities, and expectations that have shaped your sense of self
- Becoming more aware of the moments you feel most alive, and the moments you feel least like yourself
- Sitting with the tension between your own longings and the needs of those around you
- Finding language for thoughts and feelings that may have remained unspoken for many years
- Considering how you might live more honestly without losing sight of the relationships that matter
About Dr. Magdalen Cheng, Authentic Self Therapist
Hi, I'm Dr. Mag
I’m a BPS and SPS-accredited Counselling Psychologist and the founder of Encompassing Therapy, Singapore’s first existential practice. Over the years, I have become increasingly interested in the questions people carry about identity, freedom, belonging, and what it means to live a life that genuinely feels like their own.
My doctorate is in Existential Psychology from the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling in London. My work is not about encouraging people to reject who they have been.
It is about helping them understand themselves more deeply, so that the choices they make become increasingly their own.
What I bring:
- Doctorate in Existential Psychology, New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, London
- Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society (CPsychol)
- Full Clinical Member, UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP Reg)
- Level 4 Certified Master Practitioner, MAPACS (Singapore)
- Member, Society for Existential Analysis, UK
Therapeutic Approaches Used in Existential Therapy for Identity and Authentic Self in Singapore
Questions about identity rarely have simple answers. Rather than working towards a fixed idea of who you should become, we stay close to your lived experience and allow the important questions to unfold over time. The approaches below are different ways of exploring the same central concern: how to live a life that feels more genuinely your own.
Existential therapy begins from the understanding that identity is not something to be fixed or discovered once and for all. It develops throughout life, shaped by relationships, culture, freedom, responsibility, and the choices we make. Rather than searching for the ‘real you’, we explore who you have become, how you came to live this way, and what kind of life feels most worth living from here.
What this looks like in sessions:
- Exploring the tension between freedom and belonging as it shows up in your actual life
- Examining the choices you have made and asking which ones feel yours genuinely
- Sitting with uncertainty about identity without rushing toward resolution
- Becoming more familiar with the parts of yourself that have been difficult to acknowledge
Rather than starting with theories about why you feel the way you do, phenomenological work starts with your experience as you actually live it. What does it feel like to be you, in this family, this career, this relationship, this culture, right now? No labels are imposed. We begin with what is present and move from there. Beginning with lived experience often allows us to notice things that explanations alone can easily miss.
What this looks like in sessions:
- Describing your lived experience without immediately interpreting or fixing it
- Noticing what is present in the body, mood, and relationship before categorizing it
- Questioning inherited interpretations of yourself rather than accepting them as truth
- Moving slowly through what your experience is actually telling you
One of the questions that comes up repeatedly in therapy is whether it is possible to be more yourself without losing the people you love. Family, culture, loyalty, responsibility, and personal freedom do not always pull in the same direction. Rather than assuming there is a correct answer, we spend time understanding how these tensions are lived in your particular life. People navigating concerns around work-life balance often find this tension especially present.
What this looks like in sessions:
- Examining where belonging has required self-silencing or chronic accommodation
- Exploring what freedom means for you within your actual relationships and culture
- Sitting with the fear of rejection or disappointment without letting it make all the decisions
- Considering whether it is possible to be more honest with yourself without losing the people you love
Sometimes the question is not ‘Who am I?’ but ‘What truly matters to me?’ Values exploration in existential therapy is not a list-making exercise. It is an inquiry into what has felt most alive, most right, or most like yourself across different periods of your life. From there, it becomes possible to consider what a life more aligned with genuine meaning might look like.
What this looks like in sessions:
- Exploring what has felt meaningful in contrast to what has simply been expected
- Examining core values and asking which ones belong to you versus others
- Noticing where life currently aligns with what genuinely matters, and where it does not
- Building language for the aspirations and desires that have been difficult to voice
Therapy offers a rare opportunity to speak without needing to edit yourself for somebody else’s comfort. Often it is through saying something aloud for the first time that people begin to recognize parts of themselves they had almost forgotten. For those also navigating anxiety that has developed around self-expression, the work holds that too.
What this looks like in sessions:
- Saying what is true without reshaping it for acceptability first
- Noticing what gets left out of conversations and what that reveals about identity
- Practicing authentic self-expression in a space where it is genuinely safe to do so
- Building language for the parts of yourself that have rarely been given words
What Existential Therapy for Identity and Authentic Self Can Help With
Questions about identity do not always arrive looking like identity questions. They often appear through patterns that have quietly shaped a person’s life for years. These are some of the experiences that commonly bring people to this work.
The question of identity can arise at any point in adult life, not only in adolescence. It often surfaces at transitions: after achieving something that was supposed to matter, after a relationship changes, after a move, or after a loss. The feeling is not that you have done something wrong. It is closer to a quiet recognition that the different parts of your life no longer seem to fit together.
Roles can hold a life together, and they can also narrow it. When the role of good parent, capable professional, devoted child, or reliable partner becomes the entirety of how you live, the question of who you are outside those roles becomes genuinely difficult to answer. Therapy is not about abandoning these roles. It is about exploring whether there is enough room within them for you to live more fully.
People-pleasing is rarely a conscious choice. It is usually a strategy that developed early, when adapting to others’ expectations felt safer than risking disapproval or disconnection. Over time, the habit of keeping peace by setting aside your own wants, feelings, or views can become so automatic that you no longer recognise you are doing it. Therapy creates space to examine where that pattern came from and what it has cost you.
In many collectivistic families, the question of authentic identity sits alongside deeply held expectations around family loyalty, filial duty, relational harmony, and collective belonging. These values are not inherently in conflict with authentic living. But when the pressure to fulfil them leaves little room for personal wants or values that differ from those of the family or community, the question of who you actually are becomes harder to hear.
Imposter syndrome is often understood as a confidence problem. But it is frequently an identity problem: a sense that the self presenting as successful and capable is not the same as the self underneath, and that exposure is a constant risk. For more on how existential therapy approaches this specifically, see the imposter syndrome therapy page. The work examines the gap between performance and genuine self-expression, and how it might become smaller over time.
Significant life transitions, such as a career change, the end of a relationship, migration, the death of a parent, and retirement, often disturb identity in ways that take people by surprise. What felt like a stable sense of self can become uncertain when the context changes. In therapy, we work with the identity questions that transitions bring to the surface, not as something to resolve quickly but as an invitation to examine who you are becoming. More on life transitions is available on the site. Therapy allows those questions to be explored without assuming they must be answered immediately.
Closeness can be a place where the authentic self flourishes, or where it quietly disappears. Some people find that within important relationships, the version of themselves that shows up is consistently shaped by the other person’s needs, preferences, or reactions rather than their own. Together, we explore what it means to remain connected without gradually losing sight of yourself.
The anxiety that can accompany questions about identity is not simply nervousness. It is often the felt experience of freedom: the recognition that who you are is not fixed, that the choices you make define you, and that there is more responsibility in that than is comfortable to sit with. In existential therapy, anxiety about identity is not treated as a symptom to remove but as something to be listened to with care.
Understanding Authentic Self and Self-Identity
Authenticity can sound simple until you begin to live the question. These are some of the ideas that often come up when people start looking more closely at identity, belonging, and the Self.
The authentic self is not a perfect version of you waiting somewhere underneath everything else. It is more like a way of living, where your choices, relationships, words, and silences begin to reflect what is actually true for you.
- Not an ideal self, but a more truthful relationship with yourself
- Shaped through choices, relationships, culture, and lived experience
- Different from the roles or performances that were learned to stay accepted
- Always becoming, rather than something you discover once and keep forever
Self-identity is the sense of who you are across the different parts of your life. It includes what you value, how you understand your past, how you relate to others, and what kind of future feels meaningful enough to move towards.
- Includes values, beliefs, relationships, memory, culture, and choice
- Gives continuity across the different roles you inhabit
- Can feel unclear during transitions, loss, conflict, or change
- Does not require certainty, only a relationship with yourself that can keep deepening
The language of true self and false self can be useful, but only if it is held gently. The false self is not fake in a simple sense. It is often the part of us that learnt how to survive, belong, perform, or stay safe.
- The true self points to what feels more inwardly alive, free, and your own
- The false self often develops in response to family, culture, fear, or approval
- Masks are not always lies. Sometimes they were necessary protections
- Therapy is not about destroying the false self, but understanding what it has carried
None of us forms an identity in isolation. We become ourselves inside families, schools, cultures, friendships, religions, workplaces, and relationships that teach us what is welcome and what is not.
- Family dynamics and societal expectations can shape identity before we know we are choosing
- Gender roles, childhood experiences, and cultural ideals can narrow what feels possible
- Some parts of the Self may become quiet because they were not safe to express
- Therapy helps distinguish what was inherited, what was protected, and what is still yours to choose
One of the deepest fears around authenticity is that being more yourself will cost you connection. This fear is not foolish. Relationships do change when people stop performing. But sometimes they also become more real.
- Authenticity does not have to mean isolation or rebellion
- Belonging built on performance can begin to feel lonely over time
- Some relationships can hold more truth than we expect
- Therapy helps you explore what belonging actually asks of you, and whether the cost has become too high
Many people hesitate to explore authenticity because it feels selfish. But having a Self is not the same as abandoning others. Sometimes, the person who knows themselves more clearly can love with more freedom, not less.
- Authenticity is not self-expression without care for anyone else
- Self-abandonment can look generous while quietly creating resentment
- Boundaries can be part of a relationship, not the end of it
- Therapy helps separate genuine care from the fear of disappointing others
What to Expect in Your First Identity and Authentic Self Therapy Session
You do not need to arrive with a clear answer about who you are. Often, the first session begins with the uncertainty itself.
Here is what the first session involves:
- Talking about what has brought questions of identity or authenticity to the surface now
- Exploring the roles, relationships, and expectations that feel most present in your life
- Noticing where you feel most yourself, and where you feel most edited
- Getting a sense of how I work and whether this way of working feels right for you
Sitting with the question without being pushed towards a decision before it is ready
You will leave with a clearer sense of what existential therapy involves and whether this feels like the right kind of support. There is no obligation to continue after one conversation. We begin where you are and move at a pace that allows the questions to unfold properly.
Frequently Asked Questions About Existential Therapy for Identity and Authentic Self in Singapore
Defining the Authentic Self vs the False Self
The authentic self is the part of you that feels more inwardly true, less organized around fear, approval, or performance. It includes your values, desires, limits, longings, and ways of being in the world that feel genuinely your own. The false self is not simply fake. It is often the version of us that learnt how to adapt in order to belong, avoid conflict, or stay safe. Most people carry both. Therapy for the authentic self is not about becoming pure or perfect. It is about understanding the distance between how you present yourself and how you experience yourself inside.
Why the Authentic Self and Identity Matter
Identity matters because the gap between the life you are living and the Self you are carrying can become painful over time. It may show up as exhaustion, resentment, numbness, anxiety, or a quiet feeling that something essential has gone missing. These are not simply abstract questions. They affect how you choose, love, work, parent, speak, stay silent, and imagine the future. Existential therapy gives these questions the seriousness they deserve.
Defining Self-Identity
Self-identity is the way you understand who you are across time, relationships, and the different roles you inhabit. It is not a fixed object hidden inside you. It is a living relationship with your history, values, culture, body, choices, and future possibilities. A clearer sense of identity does not mean never feeling uncertain. It means being able to stay in a relationship with yourself even when certainty is not available.
Core Components and Key Aspects of Self-Identity
The core components of self-identity include personal values, beliefs, memories, relational patterns, cultural influences, and the stories you carry about who you are and why. The key aspects of self-identity also include how you make decisions, how you understand responsibility, what gives your life meaning, and how you belong with others. These elements are not fixed forever. They can be examined, questioned, deepened, and sometimes changed.
Signs of an Authentic Person and the Key Traits of Authenticity
An authentic person is not someone who says everything they feel at all times. Authenticity is not impulsiveness. It is more often seen in a person’s ability to stay connected with what they value, to speak with some degree of truth, to say yes and no with more awareness, and to remain recognizably themselves across different contexts. The key traits of authenticity include self-knowledge, emotional honesty, integrity, and the courage to live with the consequences of one’s choices.
Signs of Inauthenticity
Inauthenticity often feels like living slightly beside yourself. You may notice that you perform different versions of yourself depending on who is in the room, struggle to know what you actually want, or feel drained after maintaining a version of yourself that looks acceptable but feels distant. These are not signs that something is wrong with you. They are often signs that adaptation has been necessary for a long time.
How to Identify Your Authentic Self
There is no single exercise that reveals the authentic self. It usually becomes clearer through sustained attention to your experience: what feels alive, what feels forced, what you keep silencing, what you envy, what you avoid, and what feels quietly important even when no one else validates it. Therapy helps you stay with these signals long enough to understand them, rather than dismissing them as inconvenient or selfish.
How Do I Know If I Am Being My Authentic Self?
One way to notice authenticity is to ask whether your words, choices, and relationships feel connected to what you actually value, or whether they are mainly organised around keeping approval, avoiding conflict, or staying acceptable. Being authentic does not mean acting on every feeling. Sometimes the authentic choice is restraint. The question is whether you are choosing consciously, or whether fear and habit are choosing for you.
Why Being Authentic Is Attractive
Authenticity is often attractive because it feels safe to be with someone whose presence is not overly managed. There is less guessing, less performance, and less distance between what is shown and what is felt. This does not mean authentic people are always easy to be with. It means there is usually a clearer sense of where they stand. That clarity makes a real relationship more possible.
In What Four Ways Is Self-Identity Important?
Self-identity matters in decision-making, relationships, resilience, and meaning. It shapes the choices you make, the kinds of connections you are able to build, the way you withstand difficulty, and the way you understand what makes life worth living. Without some relationship to who you are, it becomes very easy to live by default. A stronger identity does not remove uncertainty. It gives you a place from which to meet it.
The Impact of Conditioning and Societal Pressures on Identity
Identity forms in response to what is rewarded, punished, praised, ignored, and quietly expected. Families, schools, workplaces, gender roles, religious beliefs, and cultural norms all teach us what kind of person is acceptable. Over time, these lessons can become so familiar that they no longer feel like conditioning. They simply feel like who we are. Therapy allows those inherited patterns to be examined more carefully.
Challenging the Masks We Wear
Masks are not always dishonest. Sometimes they helped us stay loved, safe, respected, or included. But a once protective mask can become costly if it leaves no room for the rest of the Self to breathe. Challenging the masks we wear does not mean tearing them away carelessly. It means asking what each mask has protected, what it has prevented, and whether it still needs to have so much authority over your life.
Losing Connection With Your Authentic Self
Disconnection from self is the experience of going through life without feeling fully present inside it. You may be functioning, fulfilling responsibilities, and doing what is expected, yet feel strangely far from your own desires, feelings, or choices. It often happens gradually. A person adapts, then adapts again, until the adaptation begins to feel like identity.
How Disconnection From Self Shows Up in Daily Life
Disconnection from self can show up as difficulty knowing what you feel, uncertainty about what you want, resentment that seems to come from nowhere, anxiety around disappointing others, or a strong sense of performing in relationships. Some people feel flat rather than distressed. Others feel constantly restless. Often, the question beneath it all is not simply, ” What should I do? It is, where have I gone?
The Therapeutic Journey in Identity Work
Existential therapy does not give you a technique for becoming authentic. It offers a relationship in which the deeper questions can be met with care. In sessions, we explore who you have become, what shaped you, what you have inherited, what you have chosen, and what may now be asking for a different kind of attention. The work is not to force clarity. It is to let clarity emerge from a more truthful encounter with your life.
Providing a Safe Space for Authentic Self-Exploration
A safe space for identity work is not only a place where nothing difficult is said. It is a place where difficult things can be spoken about without being rushed, judged, or tidied too quickly. Existential therapy holds room for contradiction: wanting freedom and belonging, closeness and space, loyalty and a life of your own. These tensions are not treated as problems to erase. They are often where the work begins.
Core Modalities for Identity Work: IFS, Inner Child Techniques, and Emotionally Focused Therapy
Approaches such as Internal Family Systems, Inner Child work, and Emotionally Focused Therapy can also be used in identity work. IFS often explores distinct parts of the self. Inner Child work focuses on formative childhood experiences. Emotionally Focused Therapy looks closely at relational patterns and emotional connection. These are not the main modalities offered at Encompassing Therapy. Here, identity is approached existentially, through questions of freedom, belonging, responsibility, meaning, and choice.
Techniques for Self-Understanding and Integration
Existential therapy is less technique-led and more conversation-led. The work involves paying close attention to your lived experience, noticing where inherited assumptions have become identity, and slowly building language for what has been difficult to say. Integration is not about forcing all parts of yourself into agreement. It is about becoming more able to live with the whole of who you are.
Imposter Syndrome as an Identity Question
Imposter syndrome is often described as a confidence issue, but it can also be an identity question. The successful self and the private self may feel far apart, creating a constant fear of being exposed. Existential therapy explores what the performance has protected, what it has cost, and whether it is possible to live with less distance between how you appear and how you experience yourself. For more on how this is approached, see the individual therapy page.
Rebuilding Confidence, Trust, and Authentic Identity
The aim is not confidence in the usual performance-based sense. It is a steadier relationship with your own authority. As the gap between private experience and public presentation becomes smaller, confidence often follows more quietly. Not as a performance of certainty, but as a greater trust that you can meet life from a place that feels more your own.
Authenticity and Belonging in Collectivistic Contexts
This is one of the most important questions in identity work. In collectivistic cultures, the Self is often understood through family, duty, care, and relationships. Authenticity can therefore feel frightening, as if being more yourself must mean becoming separate or selfish. It does not have to be that simple. Therapy explores what it means to belong without disappearing, and to be yourself without dismissing the relationships that formed you.
Freedom and Connection: Not Either/Or
Freedom and connection are not opposites, though they can sometimes feel that way. Existential therapy takes this tension seriously. The question is not whether you should choose yourself or others once and for all. It is how to live in a way that allows both freedom and belonging to have a place, even when the balance is imperfect.
How Long Do Individual Therapy Sessions for Identity Take
There is no fixed timeline for identity work. Some people come for a short period because a particular life decision has brought the question of identity into focus. Others continue for longer because the work touches childhood experiences, family expectations, shame, relationships, culture, or long-standing patterns of self-abandonment. We discuss the pace together as the work develops.
Healthy and Authentic Living as an Ongoing Orientation
Authentic living is not a destination you arrive at once. It is an ongoing orientation towards your life. It involves noticing when you are performing, returning to your values when you lose sight of them, practicing self-forgiveness when old patterns return, and continuing to ask what kind of life feels worth living. Therapy supports that orientation, but it does not reduce it to a checklist.
Greater Self-Awareness and Embracing Authentic Identity
The outcomes of therapy for authentic identity are often subtle before they become visible. You may begin to understand your patterns with more compassion, recognize what you have been silencing, make choices with less resentment, or feel more able to speak from your own center. Embracing authentic identity is not a single breakthrough. It is a gradual shift in how you relate to yourself and how you live that relationship out in the world.
Providing Tools for Authentic Self-Acceptance
The tools in existential therapy are not usually worksheets or fixed exercises. They are ways of paying attention: to your choices, your language, your body, your fears, your longings, your relationships, and the meanings you have built around them. Self-acceptance grows when you understand why you became this way, what your adaptations were trying to protect, and what may now be ready to change.
Struggling with Identity, Shame, and Unresolved Issues
Shame often teaches people that certain parts of themselves are unacceptable. Those parts may then go quiet, not because they disappear, but because they were never met safely. Trauma, criticism, emotional neglect, or repeated experiences of rejection can make authenticity feel dangerous. In therapy, we do not force those hidden parts forward. We approach them with enough care that they can begin to be understood.
Fear of Rejection and Judgment in Identity Work
The fear of rejection is not something to dismiss lightly. If being yourself once led to criticism, distance, or loss of approval, the impulse to edit yourself makes sense. But when self-editing becomes constant, it can quietly narrow your life. Therapy helps you understand where that fear came from, how it protects you, and whether it still needs to make so many of your choices.
Driven Women, Trauma, and Authentic Identity
For many driven women, the performance of capability can become so practiced that it is difficult to know what is underneath it. The success may be real. The competence may be real. And still, something may feel missing. Therapy is not about dismantling what has been built. It is about asking what had to be set aside to build it, and whether those parts of the Self still want to be heard.
Both/And: Being Accomplished and Still Struggling with Identity
You can be accomplished and still unsure who you are. You can be grateful for your life and still feel constrained by it. You can love your family and still need more room for yourself. These contradictions are not evidence that you are ungrateful or confused. They are often the beginning of a more honest conversation about your life.
Daily Practices for Authenticity: Mindfulness and Journaling
Some practices can support identity work between sessions, especially when they are used not to fix yourself but to listen more carefully. Mindfulness can help you notice the difference between an immediate performed response and what you actually feel. Journaling can give private language to thoughts that are not yet ready to be spoken elsewhere. These practices are not substitutes for therapy, but they can help you stay in contact with yourself.
Aligning Life with Core Values and Embracing Authenticity
As you begin to notice what matters, you may also notice where your life has moved away from it. That can be uncomfortable. Aligning life with core values does not usually happen in one dramatic decision. It happens through smaller choices, clearer boundaries, more truthful conversations, and a growing willingness to let your life reflect what you have come to know about yourself.
The Journey of Self-Discovery and What Requires Courage
Finding a skilled therapist for identity work is not only about credentials, though those matter. It is also about whether the therapist can sit with uncertainty, contradiction, culture, family, freedom, responsibility, and meaning without rushing you into a simplified answer. Identity work requires courage because it asks you to look at the life you have been living and ask, gently but seriously, whether it still feels like yours.
The Path Ahead: How to Schedule an Appointment and Begin Personal Therapy
The path ahead begins with a conversation. A Chemistry Session is an initial consultation where you can speak about what is bringing identity and authenticity into question right now, get a sense of how I work, and consider whether this approach feels like a good fit. You do not need to commit to ongoing therapy after one conversation. The first step is simply to see whether this is the right room for the questions you are carrying.
Fees and How to Book an Appointment
Individual therapy with Dr Mag is available in person or online. A Chemistry Session is 50 minutes and costs SGD 220. Ongoing individual sessions before 5 pm are 50 minutes and cost SGD 220. Ongoing individual sessions after 5 pm are 50 minutes and cost SGD 240. Healthcare professionals receive a 5% concession for individual therapy. To book an appointment or confirm the most current details, please contact the practice directly through the website.
Insurance and Reimbursement
Encompassing Therapy does not currently accept direct insurance. Receipts can be provided for clients who wish to submit claims to their own insurance provider for possible reimbursement. Because insurance requirements vary, it is best to check with your provider and contact the practice directly if you need specific details included on your receipt.
Getting to Encompassing Therapy
For directions, access details, transport options, parking information, or any other location-specific questions, please contact the practice directly through the website. This ensures you receive the most accurate and current information before your appointment.
Authentic Self Therapy Near Me in Singapore
Encompassing Therapy offers existential therapy for the authentic self and identity in Singapore, with sessions available in person or online. If you are looking for support with identity, authenticity, meaning, freedom, and belonging, the first step is a Chemistry Session to explore whether this approach feels right for you.
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