St. John's Counselling Service
Over 35 years ago a commitment was made by St. John's Cathedral to provide both
a spiritual and counselling connection with the Hong Kong
community. Today that counselling commitment continues to grow in
services and resources for Hong Kong's vibrant multi-cultural community at
St. John's Counselling Service (SJCS)
for children, teens, adults and organizations,
irregardless of race, gender, ethnic background, sexual orientation, socio-economic
status, religious or faith. We provide counselling services for Chinese,
Japanese, Indian, French, and English speaking clients with our well educated
and experienced counsellors who are from Hong Kong, U.S., U.K. Australia, South
Africa, France, Canada, India and Taiwan. In other words, whether our clients
are non-religious, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindi or any other faith
or religion or ethnic/race background, our counselling services are based upon a
positive psychology model that focuses on growth and
happiness.
Our Mission and
Vision
SJCS mission is "to empower the human spirit towards greater awareness in
making choices for growth and happiness." Our mission is derived from over
20 years of research, clinical experience, and principles from positive
psychology whereby a balance is sought after in our counselling sessions
with empowering our clients to i) better understand and reduce their anguish (i.e.
the unpleasant emotions and thoughts) and ii) learn and
practice optimal thinking, engage in healthy behaviors, and
experience positive feelings (i.e. the happy life).
SJCS vision is "to become
recognized and valued in the community-at-large as a preferred resource for
personal growth and counselling with individuals, families, schools and
organizations in need." Hong Kong is not only Asia's World City because of its
global role in trade and commerce, but today Hong Kong's multi-cultural
community has also recognized the value and importance counselling can provide
to the community to strike a balance between work and life. Today at SJCS we are
currently developing Quality of Work-Life programs (QWL) for businesses and
organizations across the territory to strengthen the families and communities of
Hong Kong so our city can continue to be a wonderful and successful experience to live and work
in.
Our Caring Counsellors
St. John's Counselling Service counsellors are either Counselling/Clinical
Psychologists or Clinical Social Workers with numerous years of counselling
experience and reputable academic qualifications from Hong Kong and overseas
institutions. Our counsellors are interactive in each counselling session,
striking a balance between active listening and presenting options and
opportunities to resolve many of life's challenges and opportunities. SJCS
counsellors are both male and female with English, Chinese, Japanese, French,
and Indian language skills, with qualifications in art and play therapy, depression, grief, cutting, bullying, self-esteem,
pre-marital counselling, anger
management, substance abuse, parenting, conflict management, adoption, anxiety-panic attack, stress management,
relationship counselling, school-job performance, career - life coaching, dealing with
difficult people, and work-life balance.
"Start by
doing what is necessary; then do what's
possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
St. Francis of Assisi
Our Clients
SJCS has provided professional and confidential counselling for over 35 years to
children, teenagers, adults, families, international and local academic
institutions, and small to large multi-national and local organizations. At SJCS, we provide counselling
services to three distinct groups: Academic, Client and Organization. To learn
more about our three areas of counselling, please click on each section on the
top of this web page. Noted below is a brief description of our services we
provide in Academic, Client and Organization counselling:
i) Academic:
on-site counselling and out-sourcing services for students, teachers and parents at various Hong
Kong local and international schools (lower and upper division). St. John's
Counselling Service also has a Crisis Response Team for natural disaster and
other crisis situations. We also provide workshops and training
for teachers, parents, students and administrators in areas numerous areas of
academic and non-academic challenges, evoking fun and intrinsic motivators for learning;
ii) Client:
counselling at SJCS centre for children, teens, families, couples and adults in
areas of pre-marital counselling, adoption, relocation-life transition themes, couples enrichment, marital counselling,
depression, grief, HIV and STD counselling, self-esteem, anger management, substance abuse, parenting,
anxiety-panic attack, stress management, school-job performance, career - life
coaching, dealing with difficult people, and work-life balance;
iii) Organization:
mental health outsourcing and employee assistance programs (EAP) for all types of organizations with their
employees who may need assistance in stress management, cross-cultural issues, substance abuse, work
performance, creativity blocks, time management, communication skills, change
management, dealing with difficult people, strategic thinking and QWL (quality
of work-life) programs. We also provide out-patient and residential substance
abuse treatment programs for burn-out professionals who need a confidential,
effective and efficient care program to return to work and family life.
Our Counselling Model
Counselling sessions are usually 50 - 60 minutes in duration, appointments can
be scheduled for daytime, lunch period, evenings and weekends. At times clients
will receive handouts and reading materials to facilitate the learning and
growth process (and sometimes homework!). We also have numerous books and
reading materials in our library for our clients to purchase or borrow to
enhance the growth process and increase their happiness bank account(s). St. John's
Counselling Service is located conveniently at the On Hing Building in Central -
Hong Kong with a modern, comfortable, positive, and
nurturing counselling rooms for our clients to privately explore their challenges and opportunities.
Our Counselling
Fees
Counselling fees are based on a sliding fee scale, taking into consideration not
only your monthly income but also how frequent you may require counselling and
the type of counselling required. Our
Duty to Care
principle ensures that at SJCS we commit to provide an affordable and effective
counselling environment for all clients so that the counselling goals and
objectives of each client can be realized. Fees are paid in cash and/or cheque,
with the option of online credit card payment services (secure, fast,
confidential) available in 2008!
Our Affiliations
As an Organizational Member of BACP (British Association of Counselling and
Psychotherapy) we are bound by its Ethical Framework for Good Practice in
Counselling and Psychotherapy, the Ethical Guidelines for Researching
Counselling and Psychotherapy (where organizations undertake research) and
subject to the Professional Conduct Procedure for the time being in force.
SJCS is also in partnership
with Hong Kong University HKU Family Institute and the Shue Yan University (Hong
Kong) - University of New England (Australia), and Monash University
(Australia) master's degree in counselling
programs as an internship placement centre for their students to acquire
advanced counselling skills and knowledge as so provided by SJCS well grounded positive
psychology counselling model and our extended years of experience in counselling and
therapy.
Email: info@sjcshk.com
