Richard works with people to promote healing and wellness in personal and work contexts, therapeutically integrating mind, body, and spirit. Born in the UK, Richard moved to Asia in 1986. He has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan, with projects in a dozen countries worldwide. The last 15 years of his 35-year career has focused on coaching, counselling, and training. Combined with the two previous decades (one in professional CPA firms helping people to resolve financial and legal difficulties; one in business operations and finance, both as entrepreneur and as manager), his breadth of experience provides a rich source of practical, cross-cultural, hands-on examples. He relates easily and supportively to a wide variety of people and situations – children and adults, successful business leaders and struggling students, local and Western. In 2002, Richard earned his M.Ed with distinction. His dissertation on loss involved pioneering research, and he now works with people experiencing all forms of loss. He helps men with personal, business, and family roles. He writes on men’s work, and is a member of a local men’s group. Richard practises a meditative discipline of self-knowledge,
and during the 1970s lived for eight years in an ashram. He
has also been an active sportsman, and written a book about
hiking in Hong Kong. For enquiries, please email talktherapy@vitalitycenter.com.hk |
Talk Therapy Richard offers “talk therapy” for healing and wellness in personal and work contexts, therapeutically integrating mind, body, and spirit. Many of our patients feel benefit from talking with somebody in greater depth. As an old proverb notes, “a trouble shared is a problem halved.” Sharing and discussing a difficult issue often relieves much of the associated stress and discomfort, and helps us to understand what is happening. Family, friends, or work colleagues may not have the skills to provide this form of help, and sometimes it is not even desirable or appropriate to talk to them. Richard works in combination with all our therapeutic approaches. Sometimes this may be for just one session to identify and dissolve a mental block so you can get moving again; sometimes it may be for a longer-term series of sessions to explore and resolve long-standing issues. With
his own unique holistic “4S” frame, Richard’s
warm, empathic, facilitative coaching and counselling uses questions
to reveal a whole lifetime perspective and gain new insights; out-of-the-box
creativity to reframe issues and develop choices; and guidance to
unblock creative energy, release inherent potential, and implement
solutions.
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