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 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, sexual orientation, socio-economic status,
religion or faith. We provide counselling services for Chinese,
Italian, Spanish, French, and English speaking clients with our well educated
and experienced counsellors who are from Hong Kong, U.S., U.K., New Zealand, Australia,
South Africa, France, Canada and Taiwan. To ensure our clients' counselling
needs are met in Hong Kong's challenging and ever-changing environment, our counselling services
are provided during the day, afternoon, evening and weekend hours.
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 positive psychology's research,
clinical experience, and community-focused principles whereby two goals are sought after in our counselling
services. The
first goal is to assess and better understand the unpleasant situation(s) our
clients are experiencing that impact their emotions, behaviors and thoughts. The
second goal then focuses on learning the key principles of positive psychology
whereby our clients soon begin practicing optimal thinking, engaging in healthy behaviors,
and experiencing pleasant feelings. Hence, reducing the anguish and
practicing positive psychology principles provides a more realistic, enduring
solution to living a 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 Hong Kong's multi-cultural
community has also recognized the value counselling can provide
to strike a balance between work and life. Today at SJCS we are
developing Quality of Work-Life programs (QWL) for all types of
organizations across the territory to strengthen Hong Kong's families and
communities so our city can continue to be a pleasant experience to live and
work in. Concurrently, we provide positive psychology training programs
for teachers, academics, schools, counsellors and
interested adults so that Hong Kong's happiness index continues to grow in a
positive direction.
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. In
other words, an empathetic presence encompassed with a language of choices.
SJCS counsellors are both male and female with English, Chinese, Spanish,
French, and Italian language skills, their qualifications are 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,
HIV - Aids, stress management,
relationship counselling, school-job performance, career - life coaching, dealing with
difficult people, and work-life balance themes.
"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 administrators, pastoral
counsellors, 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 to assist schools in dealing with crisis
situations and natural disasters. We also provide workshops and training
for teachers, parents, students, pastoral counsellors 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. We provide a
well-balanced child and teen counselling service by way of art and play therapy
activities to enhance social skills, communication skills, problem solving,
confidence and academic performance with Hong Kong's kids and teens in English
and Chinese.
iii) Organization:
mental health outsourcing and employee assistance programs (EAP) for all types of organizations with their
employees who may need assistance in substance abuse, 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 affordable out-patient and residential substance
abuse and depression treatment programs in Thailand for professionals and/or their
family members who need a confidential,
effective and efficient care program to return to a healthier-happier work and family life.
Our Counselling Model
Counselling sessions are usually 45 - 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. 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 household 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, cheque,
and credit card payment.
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.
As a member of the
U.S. American School Counsellors Association (ASCA), St. John's
Counselling Service has access to the latest research and best practices in
school counselling topics such as eating disorders, bullying, substance abuse,
career counselling, depression and self-harm, blended families, academic
performance and confidence/social skills.
SJCS is also in partnership
with Hong Kong University HKU Family Institute, City University of Hong Kong, 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
