Clinical Counselling

Our qualified, Christian counselling team aims to help you gain insight into existing challenges, new capacities and emotional freedom from the past using mental health principles and techniques. Our team can work with you on a variety of issues including transition stress, burn-out, work struggles, family conflict, marital difficulties, depression, addictions, recovery from mental illness, trauma, grief, and loss.

We offer all sorts of types of counselling including emotion-focused, family systems therapy, CBT, EMDR, sand therapy, person-centred, and many more. We will work with you to see which approach will be best for you. Counselling is available for adults and children, online or in person.

Counselling is available in English, Khmer, Chinese, Korean and Afrikaans.

If you’d like to hear a client’s experience of counselling, click here to read a blog post written by one of our clients.

Member Care

At Living Well we have a heart for seeing people thrive. Member care is a regular check-in where members of your organisation have an opportunity to share with our counsellors individually and/or in a group setting. They will discuss their current situation, challenges they are facing, life-stressors, transitions and decisions they are confronted with. Your members can share in a confidential and empathetic setting and receive encouragement and perspective from our counsellors. We will be available to provide follow up appointments if requested.

Seminars

Your team give out a lot to others, but who invests in you and your team? Our Christian, qualified counsellors lead seminars on topics related to mental health, relationships, and cross-cultural living. We can come to your venue, provide a venue, or conduct training online.

Topics include: Transition, Burn-out, Parenting TCKs, Staying mentally healthy, Working with Cambodians in a trauma-informed way, What the Bible says about emotions, Marriage enrichment, Online safety and pornography addiction, Conflict resolution, Bereavement, and Self-harm. Other topics are available on request.

Seminars are available in English, Khmer, Chinese and Korean.

Debriefs

If you’re about to leave Cambodia, or ending your time in a particular ministry, it can be helpful to have a single session debrief with a Christian, qualified counsellor, to talk about your experiences. A debrief can help you process the highs and lows and bring closure. Research shows that cross-cultural workers who engage in debriefs experience better mental well-being when they return home.

Debriefs are available in English, Khmer, Chinese, Korean and Afrikaans.

Art Therapy

Art therapy is like counselling, but uses a lot less talking and a lot more creativity. Our Christian, qualified art therapist can help you use art to express thoughts and feelings related to current struggles on things from the past. It’s not about producing great art. It’s about using art to soothe the nervous system and process things that can be hard to put into words. Art therapy is available for adults and children in English and Khmer.

Art therapy can help with a range of issues including grief and loss, stress, unhappiness trauma, anxiety and depression.

Art therapy is available in English and Khmer.

If you’d like to find out more about art therapy, click here to read our blog post.

Prepare / Enrich for Couples

Enrich is a structured, research-supported, six session program for you and your spouse to go through with a trained Christian facilitator to help uncover insights to make your marriage thrive. It's about taking a healthy marriage and making it even better.

Prepare is a similar course aimed at those getting ready for marriage.

Prepare/enrich is available in English, Khmer and Chinese, although the accompanying written materials are only available in English.

Couples Therapy

Research shows that couples wait until they have been unhappy for six years before seeking help! Want to improve things sooner? Our Christian, qualified, couples’ therapists have vast experience, including working with cross-cultural couples. We can meet you online or in person.

Couples therapy can help with a range of issues including conflict, communication, work-life balance, infidelity, adjusting to change, and parenting.  

Couples therapy is available in English, Khmer, and Chinese.

Family Therapy

All families have ups and downs and need support sometimes. Family therapy draws on the strength of the family to help improve their relationships, work through conflicts or just better understand how to support each other with personal struggles. Our Christian, qualified and experienced family therapist will be happy to meet you and work through these things with you. He has lots of experience working with couples and families, including cross-cultural families.

Family therapy can help with a range of issues including adjusting to a big change, communication, conflict, one or more family member struggling with their mental health, cultural disagreements, grief and divorce.  

Family therapy is available in English, Khmer and Chinese.

You can find out more about our family therapist here.

Training for Counsellors

Our qualified and experienced counsellors run training for Cambodian and expat counsellors. Topics include:

• Working with bereavement

• Working with survivors of sexual abuse

• Working with couples and families

• Working cross-culturally

• Grounding techniques

• Working with clients who self-harm

• Working with high suicide risk

• Working with pornography addiction (this training is only available online)

• How to use CBT (long-term training spread over multiple sessions)

All training is available in English. Most training is also available in Khmer, Korean, and Chinese.

Counsellor Supervision

Are you a counsellor looking for a supervisor who understands Cambodia and is a Christian? Living Well now provides supervision!

Supervision is available in English, Khmer, and Chinese.