Deep dive into how cultural, societal, and workplace stigmas around mental health impact individuals and communities in Singapore.

This session will cover:

• Factors influencing help-seeking attitudes and behaviours
• Provide strategies for professionals to challenge misconceptions and promote mental health awareness.
• Reshaping help-seeking attitudes and behaviours inside and outside of the therapy office

Psychological safety can form the bedrock of mental well-being; especially in the workplace, enabling open communication and risk taking amongst teams and colleagues.

This session will cover: 

• Understanding psychological safety and what it is
• Encouraging open conversations and reducing stigma in the workplace
• Empowering leadership behaviours to build trust and improve engagement

Challenge the belief that trauma recovery depends on removing all stressors and triggers. Instead, it introduces a practical clinical model that embraces the inevitability of stress and focuses on building resilience through six key domains of the trauma response. The approach is grounded in neuroscience and has been successfully applied in a structured rehab setting in Australia.

This session will cover:

• Why avoiding triggers doesn’t lead to long-term trauma recovery
• An overview of the six domains involved in trauma resilience
• A practical model for working with trauma in clinical and therapeutic settings

Examine the challenges and opportunities digital technology presents to therapy with younger generations, focusing on social media, teletherapy, and digital mental health tools. 

This session will cover:

• Exploring the impact of social media, gaming, and digital interactions on emotional well-being and mental health
• Analysing the benefits and risks of technology in mental health care, including teletherapy, mental health apps, and AI-driven support tools
• Providing evidence-based strategies for leveraging digital platforms to promote mental well-being while mitigating negative effects such as cyberbullying and digital fatigue

AI is here to stay. Used correctly, it can be a win for everyone in the ecosystem; therapists, clients and caregivers.

This session will cover: 

• How to mitigate the risk of therapists being replaced by AI
• Research findings on the use of chatbots for mental health support
• Harnessing AI in therapy practice

Discover into how culture shapes emotional expression and how counsellors can help intercultural couples build a shared vision of love by adopting Western models of couple therapy to suit their needs.

This session will cover:

• How to help couples uncover, and translate, the cultural meaning behind their behaviours, as well as move toward their ideal of a “self-actualizing relationship”
• Practical strategies for helping couples co-create a relationship model that honours both their cultural roots and their shared goals
• Respectfully adapting evidence-based tools, like the “softened start-up” and “bids for attention,” for clients who value harmony, indirectness, or non-verbal care

Interact with peers and exchange opinions and insights in a structured networking led by seasoned mental health practitioners focusing on current advances and issues in mental health

In today’s hyper connected world, digital interactions and online social behaviours have an outsized impact on emotional growth and peer dynamics and engagement of children and young adults. 

This panel will:

• Explore how the constantly evolving digital environment affects cognitive and social development amongst children and young adults 
• Highlight the challenges and opportunities that come up with growing up online and strategies for fostering healthy peer relationships, mitigating online risks 
• Digital & IRL tools to support and guide cognitive development for young minds and get them future ready

From viewing anxiety solely as a source of fear, explore how you can shift the narrative on anxiety as a catalyst for growth and positive change in clinical settings.

This session will cover:

• Cognitive-behavioural techniques for reframing anxious thoughts
• Developing long-term resilience strategies