What do you do when you encounter the destructive force of Emotional Tsunami when you work with a couple in therapy? Like the natural disaster it is named after, Emotional…
Calming the Emotional Tsunami
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Complex Trauma – A Case Study
Straits Times recently reported[1]a spike in the number of child abuse cases, both physical and sexual, in 2018. The article highlighted two girls who were sexually violated by their biological…
Depression. Part 1. What is depression?
This is the first of CaperSpring’s three-part series on depression. Depression is considered the “common cold” of mental illness. In Singapore, 6 in 100 people will suffer from depression at…
Stabilising a Marriage After an Affair
What cause Extra-Marital Affairs (EMA)? How does it begin? Can a marriage survive after an affair? Will it ever be the same again? And how can the relationship heal in…
Interview with Dr Sandra Paivio
Join our principal psychologist, Neo Eng Chuan, in an interview with Dr Sandra Paivio, who is an expert in working with complex trauma. Below are highlights of the interview. Watch…
Helping Couples in Distress
When you encounter couples in distressed relationship, what do you do? Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) is an empirically validated model to help couple in distressed relationship. It is based on theory…
Anger Management
A radio conversation on anger, how Emotion-Focused Therapy views and addresses anger management issues What kind of useful information can anger tell us? How can we help someone with anger…
Complex Trauma and The Healing Journey
A radio conversation on complex trauma, its causes, effects, and effective interventions Join our principal psychologist, Neo Eng Chuan, in a radio interview with Joel Chua on 93.8FM Live Journeys…
What is Complex Trauma?
What is Trauma? Trauma refers to the psychological distress that follows a very stressful event in which a person directly or indirectly experiences threat to her/his safety. Examples of traumatic…
Fear of Eating
Anorexia nervosa is defined as the never-ending chase for thinness by self-induced starvation despite progressive damage to almost every organ in the body which could result in death. It is…
