Meet Your Counselor: FAITH FOO SIEW YUEN
- Co-Founder & Director of Abri Integrated Mental Health
- Professional Counselor
- Certified EMDR Therapist/EMDRIA Certified (#53532391)
- Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist
- Certified Coaching & Mentoring Professional
- Author
Education:
B.A.S.S (Coun). (Australia College of Applied Psychology)
M. Counseling (Help University, Malaysia)
Faith Work
Faith’s own life experience led her to question the deeper meaning of life and inspired her to motivate and inspire others to reach their full potential. Faith herself underwent a period of depression and, upon overcoming it, attained inner transformation. She has built a career out of counseling, psychotherapy coaching, and training. As a counselor, trauma-informed therapist, coach, trainer, and author, she started this profession a decade ago and specializes in helping highly-driven leaders stop reacting, lead with intention, and live out their most rewarded lives.
Her work as a professional counselor, trauma-informed therapist and coach has drawn people eager to transform their own lives through her guidance. As a highly sought-after mental health speaker and author, she has spoken extensively on the topic at corporate meetings and trainings. Helped CEOs, professionals, and other high-performing executives gain insights and tools for managing their emotions and relationships. She believes everyone has the possibility to have a remarkable life if they have a healthy mind and body.
She has been featured in some media outlets, including HealthToday, 1Twenty80, AugustMan, Twentytwo13, The Star, Malay Mail, Free Malaysia Today and more.
In the world of counseling, psychotherapy, and coaching instead of the typical dry clinical boring model, Faith likes marrying psychotherapy and coaching human performance training which she loves into an integrated experience of life, creating a new paradigm in her work with clients.
For years Faith has been helping people at the most difficult times in their lives and then rapidly stirring them into a zone of success in their resolute endeavors to use all of that potent energy in a directed way.
Message from Faith
We, all of us, are constantly evolving and transforming, and we have no idea what, who, or where we’ll be at the end of our transformation. In the process of transformation, you will uncover your stuck point, which I define as an area where you are living out of sync with your best self. And my job is to shine the light and get you realigned. Part of the reason I know I can help you accomplish this is what I’ve done in my own life.
First, as a counselor and mental health coach, I emphasize making changes from within, then coach you to make changes on the outside. To combine both the elements of acceptance, as well as control. Being both a coach and therapist who understands both emotional traumas and making major, structural life changes. I help hold you responsible for tasks and goals and will help you process the fear, anxiety, and sense of powerlessness that often arise in the face of living daily life.
Be your most intentional self and always be in self-awareness at every moment, navigating life in the direction of your intentions.
“Everyone is destined to experience not only the exhilaration of life, but also it inevitable darkness: disillusionment,aging, illness, loss, meaninglessness, painful choices, and death? We are all in this together and there is no person immune to the inherent tragedies of existence. ” – (Irvin Yalom, 2002)
More Info
In addition to providing professional counseling, I am the author of two books :
1. “I Love You, I Hate You” – a book for couple
2. “The 3 S’Elves And The Long To-Do List” – picture story book
Specific Issue (s) I am Skilled at Helping With
My work frequently leads me to clients with issues related to major life events; eg. marriage issues, divorce, bussiness issues, financial crises, health issues, quarter or mid-life crises, post-traumatic stress (PTSD), mood disorders, traumas, depression, anxiety, work-related stress, anger issues, blended family issues, grief and loss, lack of self-esteem and career guidance.
I have been privileged to work with a variety of clients ranging from young adults to the elderly, from diverse racial, social and economic backgrounds, including locals and expatriates.
How My Own Struggles Made Me a Better Therapist
I have personally experienced change and transformation through counseling and coaching. I marvel at the process of change. With that, I would like to reach out to help and assist individuals to experience the change process.
Nevertheless, change is not an easy process. Exploring and discovering oneself can be painful, that we experience wanting to give up in the journey. But it is only in experiencing pain that opens the way for healing and change to take place. Just like how a caterpillar metamorphose into a butterfly. This is how I see my clients transform.
Ages I Work With
• Adults
• Elders
Languages
• English
• Cantonese
• Bahasa Malaysia
• Mandarin
治疗师个人陈述：胡秀云
在生命中，无论我们处在任何年龄、任何性别或任何环境之下，我们都会面对各式各类的挣扎或掉入情绪“低落”中。我也曾走过人生低谷，但我相信这些挣扎是可以一一克服，甚至还能从中自我成长，且活得更自在、更有目标和喜乐。
加入辅导行列的历程绝非易事，但我深信“辅导”可以为人们带来改变。我享受其中的原因之一是，我可以和当事人一同庆祝这迈向成功和喜悦的旅程。身为辅导者的我，所扮演的角色是在安全且保密的环境下给予当事人支持、激发、挑战和激励他们。
虽然，主动前来寻求辅导是一件至难之事，然而我的目标是提供一个安全和舒适的环境，让当事人可以跨越障碍。我将与当事人竭力合作，让他们能够敞开心怀及分享自己的故事。按照他们的步伐克服旧有的摧毁性或妨害性的模式。我相信，一旦当事人与自己的内心世界达到共识的时候，他们将会在意念、想法、感受和信念上做出反省。如此一来，很自然而然地就能达到治疗果效。
在我的工作范围内，常会碰到那些遇到重大生命事件的当事人（如：离婚、分手、财务危机、健康问题、青年或中年危机），情绪障碍、忧郁、焦虑、工作压力、愤怒，混合型家庭问题、哀伤和失落、自我价值低等。我能享有这个平台去接触不同年龄层、不同文化与种族（包括本地和外籍人士）和不同社会及经济背景的当事人，实在是我的荣幸。当我和当事人进行一对一式的面谈时，我将采用综合式的治疗法，如：个人中心、认知行为、存在主义、完形治疗、情绪取向、焦点解决和表达艺术治疗等。
我是马来西亚注册辅导师，我接受的课程培训包括：夫妻情绪取向治疗（EFT）、眼动减敏与历程更新疗法（EMDR），这些培训可以帮助不同的个案，特别是经历创伤的当事人。为确保提供最佳的专业治疗服务，我会坚守治疗的道德准则、继续给予督导和关注最新的研究课题以自我提升。至于我的其他工作经验，也包括从事了二十多年组织管理、市场营销和员工协助方案管理。我提供雇员有关如何处理压力与情绪的课题讲座。
“每个人，既包括治疗师也包括病人，都注定要体验生命的美好，也要体验其不可避免的暗黑之处：幻灭、衰老、疾病、孤独、丧失、无意义、痛苦的选择和死亡……每一个人都一样，没有哪一个治疗师、没有任何一个人，可以免除存在的悲剧本质。互相为伴，一起成长”将是我与你（当事人）彼此关系的真实写。”
（欧文.亚隆，2002）
语言: 英语、广东、华语和国语