Your very own therapeutic space.
About Us
My TheraSpace, founded by Phoebe Ng in 2022 is a telehealth counselling service that works to provide therapy to people who are struggling mentally. The name, My TheraSpace is derived from the term, “My Therapy Space”, which aims to convey that this is a safe and secure space where clients can come to seek counselling and improve their mental wellbeing without any judgment. Furthermore, we believe that clients should have the choice of choosing the most comfortable location for their therapy to take place which could be a cafe, a park or simply their bedroom, and call that their very own “therapy space”.
The Iceberg
If you haven’t already noticed, our logo takes the form of an iceberg which is a concept brought famous by Sigmund Freud addressing the preconscious, conscious and unconscious of the human mind. In other words, our practice aims to uncover the roots of our clients’ trauma and problem rather than merely treating the surface symptoms which often take the forms of mental illness.
Furthermore, through this logo, we aim to convey a powerful message that mental illness or poor mental health is much harder to spot than we think, what we see in ourselves and others might just be the tip of an iceberg. We’ve all heard the term ‘Smiling Depression’ where people living with depression try to appear happy and positive in front of others, but it is hard to wrap our head around it when it happens to someone close to us or even to ourselves. Thus, My TheraSpace hopes to provide counselling services to people in need as well as spread the message, “You do not have to struggle in silence, come talk to us”.
According to Black Dog Institute (2020), 1 in 5 Australians between the age of 16 to 85 years old struggle with mental illness. However, 54% of them do not seek any mental health treatment. This could be due to many factors like public and self stigma about mental illness, the lack of knowledge in mental health, difficulty in accessing mental health treatment and language barriers. With this awareness, My TheraSpace aims to play a part in changing the statistics.
How do we do it?
01 — Raising Public Awareness
We regularly update our social media platforms, providing research based information about various mental illness.
Our website has a blog page that discusses about different mental health related topics.
We are open to accept workshop or webinar invitations to raise awareness in mental health.
02 — Providing Mental Health Resources
Our website has a resources page that contains a list of different helplines that provide free services for people in need.
In the cases where clients find our services unsuitable for them, we can assist in helping them to link up to other mental health services.
03 — Offering Multilingual Counselling Services
We provide therapy in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Our social media platforms will provide mental health resources/knowledge in both English and Mandarin.