Your Safe Space
Our Beliefs
Our View of Human Nature
Our view of human nature is in-line with Carl Roger’s view of human nature, where a human being has the tendency towards self-actualization by working to fulfil one’s potential and purpose. In order to grow to fulfil one’s potential and purpose, a person needs an environment that provides him/her with genuineness for self-disclosure and openness, acceptance without feeling judged, and empathy, which encapsulates one being listened to and feeling understood.
Our View of Human Function
Our view of human function is that humans function to fulfil their five basic needs - survival, love and belonging, power, freedom and fun. Survival refers to our basic physiological needs, which includes air, water, food, shelter, safety, health, warmth and sex, in today’s world, it includes sufficient income to pay for these. Love and belonging falls under our psychological need where we believe we are loved and cared for by other human beings, as well as us having the need to love and care for others. The need for power refers to feeling a sense of worthiness, empowerment, self-efficacy and achievement. The need for freedom and fun refers to our need for autonomy and independence, being able to explore, create, express self freely, make choices without feeling restricted, move around and have sufficient space. The need for fun encompasses our psychological need and desire for enjoyment, be it engaging in a hobby, having leisure time, feeling excitement in a new project, or just having a sense of humour.
Our View of Human Dysfunction
Our view of human dysfunction is that as humans try to fulfil their needs, we manage obstacles through the use of maladaptive coping strategies when we encounter challenges. Another contributor to human dysfunction is the way a person perceives cognitively and makes meaning of situations/events happening in his/her life, how he/she responds to it, process it, and finally grow or not grow from it. This aligns with Cognitive Behaviour Therapy’s assumptions that people’s emotions and behaviours are influenced by their perceptions of these events and situations.
Goal of Counselling
A general goal of counselling would be to heal and empower the person through person-centred empathic stance, helping the client to increase his/her self-awareness, develop new meanings of same situations/events, and learn new skills/ways to manage better going forward, through psychoeducation and practice.