Katrine Cheng
Master of Counselling (Australia)
Certificate in Psychology and Mental Health (United Kingdom)
Certificate in Family Therapy
Certificate in Gottman Method Couples Therapy – Level 3
Certificate in Gottman Method Couples Therapy – Treating Affairs and Trauma; Couples & Addiction Recovery Training
Certificate in DBT Skills
Certificate in ACT for Trauma
Certificate in EFT: Attachment Science in Practice for individuals, couples & families
Certified Prepare/Enrich Facilitator (Premarital Counselling)
Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association: Canadian Certified Counsellor
Psychotherapy & Counselling Federation of Australia: Registered Clinical Counsellor
Parent Hope Clinician, Parent Hope Project
Professional Member, Australian Association of Family Therapy
American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists: Professional Member
Katrine is passionate about working with teens and adults (individuals, couples and families). She uses a humanistic and experiential approach, as well as mindfulness and cognitive-based disciplines to offer mental health counselling for individuals; utilise research-based assessments and interventions, as well as attachment science to help couples strengthen their relationships and marriages; individuals with their families members build supportive family systems.
She provides pre-marital and relationship counselling. She helps committed couples to gain understanding of their relationship dynamics, strength and growth areas; heal and rebuild trust after affairs/ traumas; facilitates couples to heal and recover from addictive behaviours; facilitates couples to cope with their problems/ conflicts in constructive ways; enriches their relationships through pre-marital and relationship counselling.
She facilitates parents in helping them to recover their confidence to contribute to their child’s wellbeing and responsibility.
She helps individuals/ with their family members to address barriers, better communicate with each other, develop closer emotional bonding to build a more harmonious and supportive family system; address conflicts among family members (including intergenerational relationships, in-laws, extended family, etc.); develop coping strategies to navigate transitions or crises.
She is also experienced in helping individuals with attachment issues, relationship issues, life transitions, stress, procrastination, perfectionism behaviours, low self-esteem, sleeping problems, depression, anger management issues, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, social anxiety and phobias, management roles readiness, workplace relationships, people communication and management skills, grief and loss, trauma, emotional regulation and distress tolerance.
She seeks to meet her clients with unconditional positive regard to join them at where they are in a genuine, supportive and nonjudgmental way on their path to healing. She holds and soothes them with relentless empathy in a secure-base therapeutic alliance where clients can feel comfortable to take risks with her as their companion to face their vulnerabilities together. She helps them to see the processes in which they are caught in with their emotions and with other people; reorganise their inner world that makes sense of their lives; find their emotional balance and redirect those processes into new directions.
Katrine conducts therapies in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.