Mind-Balance

A quick technique for reducing stress and anxiety For more information or to book a consultation with psychologist Dr. Esslin Terrighena,...

Hong Kong is going through a time of uncertainty and confusion. Will we be going into lockdown? Will we be separated from our families?...

The recent tragedy of the car collision on the corner of Peel and Staunton Street has left many of us shaken and traumatized. Trauma is...

Throughout our lifetime, we go through a number of losses. Some losses are physical and tangible, including the death of a loved one....

Despite having built greater coping resources in adulthood, we can still experience distressing events that overwhelm our coping and...

Events in childhood that threaten our physical or emotional safety are likely to outweigh our coping resources and overwhelm us, leaving...

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder is a clinical disorder triggered by exposure to a traumatic life-threatening event. More specifically,...

Traumatic events and subsequent trauma can be placed into three over-arching categories. Acute trauma refers to direct or vicarious...

Little t trauma results from traumatic experiences that are highly distressing and disruptive without being physically life-threatening....

Big T Trauma results from traumatic experiences that we most commonly associate with the word trauma. These can include severe...

When we experience a traumatic event, our fight-flight-freeze system gets activated. In other words, our bodies recognize the threat to...

1. Changes are tangible: Often we are stuck in unhelpful patterns that prevent us from meeting our true needs or our goals. Many of these...

Both Big T and little t can be effectively resolved through trauma-specific therapy. We cannot solely “think” our way out of trauma as...

Trauma is the reaction we have to a deeply distressing experience that outweighs our coping abilities at the time and thereby overloads...