Hello & thank you for being here !
Eugen
Yimfong is an experienced counsellor and psychotherapist specialising in couple and relationship counselling. She has nearly 20 years of clinical experience with a diverse range of individuals and families going through challenging life and work transitions. These include anxiety, self identity, attachment loss and grief, posttraumatic stress, cognitive dissonance around gender, identity, sexuality, religion and spirituality.
Yimfong is passionate about how relationships matter in helping people thrive! This is backed up by science and research. Resilience needs our inner resources and a circle of supportive relationships around us - personal and sometimes professional. Respectful and caring interpersonal relationships influence our mental health and sense of well being. Conversely, continuing stress and conflict impact our physical and emotional health and can become the symptoms we try to treat.
Yimfong has a unique lens for a whole-of-life and wholistic perspective on life as 'a living process' (Eugene Gendlin). She grew up in a multicultural society, lived in four countries and worked in the public health sector. Through her lived experience and extensive study she developed a deeper understanding of how to work with the complex intersection and interplay of culture, race, gender, sexuality, religion, spirituality that influence our lives and values. Context matters. Understanding how generational trauma influences our family dynamics and lost connections matters. We need safe places and safe people to help us unlearn our unexamined ways of living and coping. We can create a healthier relationship to our self and in relating to others.
Yimfong's approach is person-centred, attending to interpersonal interaction as integral to effective therapy. She engages collaboratively and ethically in the client's process. Her whole person, systemic multi-modal approach integrates attachment and trauma-formed practices, focusing-oriented therapy EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) and the embodied, phenomenological use of art, imagery, symbols and dreams
Yimfong brings the same passion and ethical values to her supervision and mentoring in reflective practice with her supervisees. Through individual and group supervision, she encourages engagement, critical thinking, competency and compassionate inquiry in the shared reflective supervision space. Her supervision process is guided by her deep understanding of professional identity development and a deeper connection to self for the therapist that ultimately influences the quality of their work with their clients.
As a CCAA Registered Clinical Counsellor and one of the listed Integration Supervisors, Yimfong also works with supervisees who wish to practise ethical integration of theology / spirituality in their client process at the client's request and with their consent. The faith and spiritual practices of a client is a very important resource. However, in some instances, their unexamined worldviews may also narrow their perspective for working through the difficulties they are experiencing in life.
Please use the web form to inquire or book an appointment or to request a free 20 minute to express your interest in working with her.
Warmly,
Yimfong
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