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Counselling Psychologist Counselling for individual adults and couples Member of Singapore Association for Counsellors Background and Experience Atika is passionate about empowering individuals to lead a more productive and fulfilling life. She acts as a facilitator to help her clients overcome obstacles, fears, inadequacies & help them break their barriers. By using the person-centered approach to therapy, she has actively counselled and supported over 5000+ clients, over her 18+ years as a practitioner in this field covering a wide range of issues such as marital, self-esteem, work stress, suicide, parenting issues, relationship issues, corporate stress and mental illness. For the past four years in Singapore, she has actively worked with the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) of international companies to be their employee’s mental health provider. She believes in supporting her clients with healing, finding purpose, and gaining hope and does this via understanding, acceptance, empathy, and clinically derived feedback. Atika has a master’s in Counseling Psychology from Amity Institute of Behavioural & Allied Sciences, a member of the Singapore Association of Counsellors and trained in the Gottman Couples therapy (Level 3). Therapeutic Approach Atika uses the person centred approach by providing her clients a safe place for them to share, and explore their emotions, thoughts and behaviours. Her interest lies in Couple work and is trained in the Gottman Couples therapy (Level 3). She has supported couples through a number of issues like communication, conflict management, infidelity and adjusting to parenthood. She believes that having meaningful relationships contributes a great deal to our happiness and therefore, we bring our best selves to the workplace and community. She believes that everyone deserves to live a fulfilling life. Her goal is to offer you a safe space where you feel heard, seen and understood without fear of judgment and her hope is that you open your heart for the journey to unfold. She works with her clients to manage their overwhelming emotions, identify the unhelpful thinking patterns and develop healthier ways of managing issues or challenges that they are facing. At Breaking Barriers we provide a safe and non-judgemental space for you to be at your most vulnerable self and we meet you where you are. To experience yourself in entirety – the messy & magical, the pain & power, the sadness & love, the fear and the courage. Personal I’m a sensitive person and growing up in the 90’s I felt like a misfit as people around me were more cognitive with focus on behaviour rather than emotions. Therefore, I felt something is wrong with me that I hurt easily! I questioned why can’t I be stronger and did try to change myself only to feel more pain. This was my motivation to study psychology and more than anything understand myself as I was confused with the messaging I received from others and what I felt inside. As I have been fortunate to experience other’s life journeys I have come to realise that all we need as humans is a validation of our experience. And that is my approach towards therapy, while I’m trained in different modalities like Person-Centred, Gottman’s Couple Therapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming I use an eclectic approach as every individual is unique. I commit to holding your story with compassion and non-judgement. Nothing you tell me will be too much. Your whole, unfiltered self is safe here.