Feeling stressed at work from time to time is a normal experience throughout our working career. Experiencing some stress is useful in building our capacity to deal with challenges, learn new skills, improve resilience, and solve problems. Indeed, without some element of healthy stress, we risk becoming demotivated and disengaged in our job responsibilities. However, experiencing work-stress that is severe and over a long period of time can drastically overwhelm our ability to cope and lead to burnout.

Burnout is a state of emotional and physical exhaustion. It is a harmful and serious condition caused by the body’s response to prolonged chronic stressors in the workplace. Globally, burnout cases continue to rise with debilitating and far-reaching impacts felt by companies and governments, as well as individual sufferers, their families, friends and work colleagues.

Some of these signs and symptoms can include the following:

• Persistent sense of being overwhelmed
• Feeling utterly depleted, useless, trapped or defeated
• Feeling isolated and alone
• Excessive fatigue
• Thoughts of hopelessness or cynicism
• Irritability
• Procrastination, difficulty focusing and taking longer to complete tasks
• Perpetual self-doubt

Burnout is impossible to simply ‘snap out’ of. As a condition that develops over a period of prolonged exposure to workplace stress, sufferers need time and support to embark on the road to recovery – from recognising the problem, addressing issues, developing healthy coping strategies, building resilience in order to recover and get back on track.

Companies play an important role in avoiding burnout risk by building healthy workplaces and cultures, with well-designed jobs and structures to match employees’ needs, but where gaps emerge, individuals can benefit from understanding and managing resilience against stress.

If you or are tracking low on the resilience continuum and experiencing burnout, what treatments are available? Treatments can include talk therapy and medical interventions, often including anti-anxiety or anti-depressant medications, but there needs to also be change in workplace structures, job-design, or culture that caused the source of stress. There is no “one-size-fits-all” plan for treatment. It may take some trial and error to find the treatment that works best.

How do you cope if you are experience burnout?

Burnout is caused by the persistent experience of stress without being able to cope. Implementing stress management techniques will be of help to treat your burnout. Common aspects of a stress management plan include the following.

Challenging your thinking filters

Whilst some work experiences invariably include some toxic practices and/or people, sometimes our experience of stress is created by our personal perceptions of a situation. For example, if you hold onto black and white thinking you will be prone to judge yourself and others more in stressful situations. If you tend to filter information and feedback you may feel, unjustly, negatively about yourself when mistakes occur. For a full assessment of your thinking filters read our RED DOOR blog on this topic.

Practice mindfulness

Mindfulness helps to develop greater personal awareness. Its practice teaches individuals to be more aware of their thought processes and reactions in the present moment. So instead of racing ahead in a negative thought cycle a person  is more likely to be able to think in a more removed manner, noticing patterns in their reactions and being able to view situations in terms of their typical reactions and the potential costs and benefits of those reactions in the past. This ‘mindful overview” promotes understanding of being in charge of one own emotions and behaviours. To find out more about mindfulness see one of our blogs on this topic, attached below.

Time management

The perception that we do not have enough time to do the work we have to do, creates stress. The art of managing the activities, priorities and sequencing of events in our lives can be taught. If you feel that you are not utilizing your time as well as you could, consider reading books on this topic or talking to a performance coach to help you better set your priorities.

Emotional regulation and support

If you are feeling overwhelmed and emotional you need to consider how you can better regulate volatile or oppressive emotions. The best way to do this is to talk to someone about how you are feeling. The more experienced and qualified that person is to help you disseminate your emotions the better. Consider counselling. A good counsellor can help you process some of your emotional experiences, understand your responsibilities and build resilience to deal with challenging circumstances.

Avoid addictive distractions

When we are stressed, we may become prone to self-medicating or distracting ourselves from our stress. Occasionally those distractions can actually maintain our experience of stress, or create new stresses for us to have to deal with. For example, alcohol is well recognized as a depressant. Paradoxically people often engage in drinking, to excess, to numb their stress. However over time alcohol robs us of our ability to produce dopamine efficiently, making us depressed.

Time distractions such a gambling and gaming can become problems because they create new problems such a financial problems or cutting us off from face to face social time with friends and family, which may help us mediate our experience of stress.

Build social support

Social supports – friends and family help us navigate tough times. In our RED DOOR research of the experience of stress among lawyers in Hong Kong, many of our senior lawyers managed their stress by talking to friends or family. The quality of these relationships is important. Do you have the quantity or quality of friends that you need. Recent (2022/2023) observations in our clinic highlighted that people in Hong Kong may benefit from building new friendships. As adults we sometimes are unsure how to build new friends. If this describes your experience then, consider reading our blog on this topic.

Maintain a healthy lifestyle – including sleep.

When we are stressed we often call into behaviours that compromise our health status. When we are under pressure these healthy behaviours protect us. Maintaining an exercise regime, eating well, and sleeping well (at least 8-10 hours) will help your body deal with stress hormones, and allow you to heal after the pressure has lifted.

Communication patterns

Poor communication can place a lot of pressure on your and those that you need to communicate with. When communication is unclear you can end up guessing what another person wants from you (perhaps incorrectly). It is difficult to work in organisations that tolerate vague or inauthentic communications. What can you do?

Learn to communicate effectively and assertively. There are many books on this topic that you could explore. Assertive communication involves being confident (not aggressive) in your messaging, acting rationally as an adult, being respectful to others in the communication and being clear about what you can, and cannot do. There are a number of Instagram accounts celebrating understanding corporate culture and how to express yourself effectively. Checkout @loewhaley to gain some insights.

Ultilise relaxation techniques

A range of relaxation techniques can help lower your experience of stress. You can use apps such a calm to find guided relaxation exercises, or go to a yoga class. You can also consider incorporating 15 minutes of colouring into your daily routine to reduce some of your experience of stress. Remember this practice needs to be regular, even daily, to help.

Consider anti-anxiety or anti-depressant medications

Many clients are hesitant to take up medications for treatment due to concerns about becoming dependent, potential negative side-effects, and stigma. It is not an easy decision to undertake. Talk to your GP about these medications to see if you can explore some of these fears. If you have tried behavioural and psychological approaches with no success, you might need to consider medications to start help reduce your experience of stress just enough that those behavioural or psychological techniques can start to gain traction.

Burnout is no joke. If you find yourself completely exhausted it is time for a change, and the most effective type of change is going to involve exploring your responses to and relationship with stress. You can feel better.

About the author: Angela Watkins is the head counsellor at RED DOOR Counselling. She offers individual counselling to adults, including those working through workplace topics such as conflict resolution, moving from good to great, burnout, and career change contemplation.

It is natural to be concerned if your teen is engaging in self-harming behaviours such as cutting or burning themselves.

Harming oneself is considered is a serious mental health issue in itself. Self-harm is also often  a  component of other psychological mental health issues such as clinical depression, dissociative disorders, eating disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder. 

Self-harming as a practice  usually starts in the mid teen years, and mayvcontinue for years, if therapy or treatment is not successful.  

People who have a history of self-harm sometimes may also develop suicidal ideation (contemplating suicide), although this is not always the case.

Potential causes of self-harming practices can include traumatic events including child abuse, stressors such as bullying, family tensions and living under the perception of extreme pressure.  The teen considering harming themselves, may feel lonely, out of control, invisible, and overcome with a deep sense of self-loathing. They are quite likely to have over reactive emotions, to the extent that their reactions can sometimes seem extreme, or such that they seem numb, from previously feeling worries too strongly.

The teenage years can typically be a period of emotional sensitivity which is why self-harming behaviours may emerge at this time. Children who are extremely sensitive, prone to lashing out, have poor impulse control or hold catastrophic perspectives, are more prone to pursue behaviours such as self-harm.

The desire to cut is often in response to emotional situations or the thoughts attached to those situations. The world seems too much, too painful, too difficult. Cutting can be an act of externalising the experience of internal pain, remind the teen that they are alive, or even a punishment for behaviours they judged as shameful. When we treat such teens in therapy, we try to help teens deal with their situation and their emotions, and gain back a sense of emotional regulation, essentially an ability to manage their oversensitive emotions.  

Understanding and regulating emotion can be taught. Therapists aim to teach their clients to observe and correctly label emotions, developing emotional literacy. It is important to change the channel internally. Teens can be taught to  utilise a non-judgmental internal dialogue to learn to respond to emotionally charged situations in a different manner than they have in the past.

Typical reassurances that parents may engage such as telling kids to stop, calm down, model themselves after another person, exercise more, or “try to get over it/forget about it”, typically do not work well with emotionally oversensitive people. This is because these teens need to first learn how to understand their personal relationships with the world, before assurances and suggestions may make any impact.

Therapy techniques such as DBT (Dialectic Behaviour Therapy) and CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) can be effective treatment options for teens who are emotionally charged.  These therapies are often data based, and help teens learn to read their own patterns of thoughts and behaviours through emotional monitoring, thought logs, and response adjustments. A simplified version of this process is described below.

Emotional monitoring can be taught to both children and adults. There are many tools to help people correctly identify and label emotions. Physical experiences such as tension, butterflies in the stomach, headache, clenched jaw are also detailed. Correctly helping identify the expression and experience of an emotion helps the client associate particular thoughts patterns associated with those emotions, or simply help them notice that they feel emotions they thought they had “lost”. Many teens confuse feeling anxious with feeling angry and hence respond by lashing out, rather than behaviours that may help them calm down.

Thought patterns are essential to associate with certain emotions. These thought patterns may have been learnt over many years and may include catastrophising (this is the worst thing ever!) , negative comparisons (She is so cool, I am such a loser) , mind reading ee my blog on common thinking errors). By catching these thoughts in action. Essentially people are taught to catch these thinking patterns and reflect upon them from alternative perspectives. They may be asked to keep a log of negative events and how they felt about those events so that they can be discussed in terms of creating a more rational perspective on the situation being reviewed.

For example, a bad event will be compared with other events to help the client understand its relative importance. A particular teen may consider getting a “C” grade on a test a major tragedy. That teen could be asked to asked to rate it out of ten, and gives it a seven, the therapist might ask what would be a 10. Typically, a score of 10 may be allocated to a severely traumatic event such as death of a loved one. The therapist then asks, what would be a 9? A nine might be chronic illness or injury. The process continues, and the therapist will ask, “Does getting a C still represent a seven out of ten?” Usually using such perspective tools helps client’s better rate the bad event into a more realistic context.

Once thought patterns and perspectives have been regularly assessed cognitive reframing and discourse can be utilised to create a new set of responses. For example in the case given previously, a teen who performs badly on a test, and may have self-harmed as a punishment of perceived poor performance, can learn to talk themselves about the realistic importance of each grade, the steps that they can take to explain or overcome poor grades, ways to study better. Different behaviours, not cutting or self-harming.

During this whole process (which is greatly simplified here), very little judgement is given regarding the actual self-harming behaviour. That behaviour is attached to a range of emotions and thoughts. Instead of challenging the self-harm behaviour directly, and potentially driving the behaviour underground or increasing feelings of shame around that behaviour, we recommend addressing the root of the problem, and learn better emotional regulation. Emotional regulation, hopefully, leads to a better long- term solution, less shame, and more resilience.

If you have a teen who is self-harming please consider counselling for them immediately. The earlier you start to challenge the underlying emotions, the better.

About the author: Angela Watkins is a counsellor and psychologist working with teens and adults in Hong Kong. To contact Angela email angelaw@reddoor.hk or send a whatsapp to +852-93785428.

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The Resiliency Rx – check-in to check-up

Resilience is the capacity to rise above difficult circumstances. It is a trait that allows us to exist in this less-than-perfect world while moving forward with optimism and confidence. From a psychological research perspective, resilience is collective terms for a range of personal skills (I’ve included 28 elements below) which are developed during the childhood. Many of them can be enhanced or corrected with education, therapy and training– in other words resiliency can be taught, to both children and adults.

Resiliency is required to deal with day-to-day hassles, and is essential when you face exceptionally stressful events. Stress such as that experienced when you are going through a divorce, lose your job, suffer a bereavement, fail a significant exam, or are diagnosed with a serious illness, even fall out with your friendship group at school, require an ability to respond to these acute stressful situations.

In today’s world you need to be resilient. This doesn’t mean you need to accept other peoples’ bad behaviour, but you also need to be able to respond appropriately when other people behave badly, or circumstances turn out unfavourably for you. For example:

• Sexism, racism, prejudice still exist in the world, and you are likely to be exposed to this at some point.
• People can be mean, they can bully and exclude others. And this doesn’t just apply to teens.
• You are likely to encounter at least one person in your lifetime who tries to push you around in a work or learning environment.
• You are likely to fail at test or exam at some point in time. Will you retake that test, or are you willing to only make one attempt?
• Family members are probably going to say something personally offensive to you at some point.
• There might, amazingly, be a global pandemic which means your life suddenly changes completely out of your control.

If you are resilient you are better able to face the stressful slings and arrows that one encounters in a lifetime, rather than resorting to maladaptive coping strategies such as escapism (gaming, having affairs), self-medicating (abuse of alcohol, drugs), or breaking down (depression, burnout, anxiety attacks) or developing other psychological problems (paranoia, obsessive stalking).

Hence, we can think of resiliency as the super multivitamin – and the daily prescription (Rx) provides protection from environmental stressors which might, potentially, make us unwell.

There are a number of tests of resilience – for children, youth and adults. They can be self-administered. I have adapted selection of questions from various tests below to provide some examples of some of the items that are sometimes assessed. I remind you, the test within this blog is not an empirically tested diagnostic test, it serves instead as a potential check-up of your current aspects of functioning – a check-in check-up.

The RED DOOR Resiliency Rx – quick check-up

Let’s begin with some questions about how you see yourself, and then explore other categorical elements of resilience.  Select the frequency that you experience the following thoughts/ feelings or experiences:

How I see myself

It stands to reason that how you see yourself will influence how well you feel you can respond to a stressful situation. Self-efficacy, our belief in our ability to influence the outcome of a situation is a key aspect. If we do not believe we have any chance to change an outcome we are forced to sit inert, whilst unfortunate events happen ‘to us’. How we see ourselves, our positive self-affect (self-liking) is also an aspect of resilience, as is our self-esteem (sense of self-worth). If we think positively about ourselves and see our worth, we can withstand adversity’s impact on our feelings towards ourselves, and our ability to be positive in the future.

A series of beliefs about ourselves, especially if they are distorted, can compromise our ability to cope. If you see yourself as a ‘loser’, or an ‘idiot’, you will expect that situations are likely to end in a negative position.

When stress occurs, those who harbour perfectionist distorted fears, such as a strong fear of making mistakes or have doubts about your actions to the extent that you are forced into in action, maybe in for a harder time when the going gets tough. It stands to reason that how you see yourself will influence how well you feel you can respond to a stressful situation.

Self-efficacy, our belief in our ability to influence the outcome of a situation is a key aspect. If we do not believe we have any chance to change an outcome we are forced to sit inert, whilst unfortunate events happen ‘to us’.

How we see ourselves, our positive self-affect (self-liking is also an aspect of resilience, as is our self-esteem (sense of self-worth). If we think positively about ourselves and see our worth, we can withstand adversity’s impact on our feelings towards ourselves, and our ability to be positive in the future.

On the four questions above I would expect a score of 10 or above to indicate that you see yourself well in terms of ability to be resilient. *

Framing and reframing situations

How you see the situation, and can challenge one’s original interpretations of a  situation – the ability to frame and reframe – also influences your overall resiliency.

Cognitive distortions – beliefs that you hold about the world, influence how well you can respond to it. If you tend to catastrophize about what may happen, you create a lot of additional internal anxiety for your system to deal with, beyond that which is presented by the original situation. Additionally, comparing your work or yourself to others is a guaranteed way to build doubt in yourself over the long run. Even if you are the cleverest, you probably won’t also be the most charming, or good looking, or most popular, or best educated, or best dressed. The list of comparisons you can make is endless, and the only guarantee is that you will, eventually, fall short.

Your ability to brainstorm creatively about resolving problems will lead to confidence to address challenging situations, just as having a positive attitude about challenges, learned optimism also helps. Being present, and mindful, is essential. Tackle each problem step by step and don’t fret over the parts that are a long way off from being realised. Many concerns may not materialise. If you focus on all the potential problems you may encounter in the futurebefore you make a particular decision, it’s enough to make one hide under the covers for days on end, rather than face up to making needed decisions today.

Being grateful is not just for hippies. Being grateful and keeping gratitude lists encourages two positive resiliencies boosting aspects – firstly, the ability to see that many things are good, even when not everything is good, and secondly, the recognition that there are a lot of people who would be happy to have half of what we have. Altruism, and helping others rise, will help you install the ability to bounce back into your own psyche.

On the five questions above, I would suggest that a score of 17 or higher indicates that you frame, and re-frame, situations in a positively resilient manner. *

Current coping mechanisms

Take a moment to consider how you cope with stress now, as it is very likely that you will utilise the same coping mechanisms in moments of acute stress. Maladaptive stress responses include self-medicating through alcohol consumption or recreational drug use, escaping through game playing (on devices or with people), and avoidance (procrastinating, avoiding going out).

There are healthier coping mechanisms that you can learn. A good place to start is in identifying the stressors in your life and how your body responds under stress (for example stomach pains, headache, fatigue, shaking) so that you can identify these symptoms relationship to your anxiety experience. Learn calming techniques, breathing, relaxation, colouring, and mediation to help calm your body.  If you lack assertiveness, consider assertiveness training. Practice stress management techniques (blog coming shortly on this specific topic).

If you score less than 12 on the four questions above, it may be time to evaluate your current coping mechanisms in terms of ability to be resilient over the long term*Take a moment to consider how you cope with stress now, as it is very likely that you will utilise the same coping mechanisms in moments of acute stress.

Maladaptive stress responses include self-medicating through alcohol consumption or recreational drug use, escaping through game playing (on devices or with people), and avoidance (procrastinating, avoiding going out). There are healthier coping mechanisms that you can learn. A good place to start is in identifying the stressors in your life and how your body responds under stress (for example stomach pains, headache, fatigue, shaking) so that you can identify these symptoms relationship to your anxiety experience. Learn calming techniques, breathing, relaxation, colouring, and mediation to help calm your body.  If you lack assertiveness, consider assertiveness training. Practice stress management techniques (blog coming shortly on this specific topic).

If you score less than 12 on the four questions above, it may be time to evaluate your current coping mechanisms in terms of ability to be resilient over the long term*.

Making the most of your support network

In order to be resilient, you need to be able and willing to ask for help and lean on people. What is particularly important, and a key element of our Teen Resiliency Rx course is understanding who are your real friends and differentiating them from those you simply spend time with. We all need someone, actually more than one, person we know has got our backs. Sometimes even trustworthy friends cannot be there for us in a crisis, because of their own life situations, so having a diverse network of support is important, especially for teenagers. Encourage your teenagers to have friends both inside and outside of school.

Resilient people also have healthy relationships with people they spend time with. They have robust boundaries – they understand what is their responsibility and what is yours and do not get those mixed-up. They do not hold negative cognitive distortions about how others see them, and have the skills to appropriately deal with conflict in relationships. All of these skills can be taught if you consider yourself enmeshed in other people’s drama, or constantly thinking people hate you.

I would consider a score of 14 or over to demonstrate that you are doing well in building supportive networks around yourself, providing a safety net, in case you need it. *

Committed to your purpose

If you have had your path in life written for you by others, perhaps your parents or as the trailing partner of an expat, you may feel a lack of purpose. This is because you are not pursuing your own goals, rather that of others. It is important to have a sense of purpose about your life. If it needs some temporary adjustment because of your circumstances, that can be incorporated. You need to know where you are going, and why it is important for you, or you will not feel satisfied when you get there. Build a personal growth plan and an action plan so you feel directed. Manage part of your time to achieve these goals. Believe in yourself, be confident , and committed to your purpose. Enlist help if you cannot do this on your own.

Part of being committed to a purpose is to ensure that you make it to the finish line. Your health is a priority. Many of us place our health needs on a back burner because of today’s pressing needs. Your body and mind need you to be as healthy as you can be, so that if an acute stressor occurs, you have your health to rely on.

If you score 13 or more you are on your way to your purpose. If you score below this, please consider what you can do to help yourself build purposeful resilience into your daily plans*.

How did you do?

If your resiliency check-up went well, then congratulations. If your scores didn’t add up the way we recommend, then consider what might be areas for development for you. Part of being resilient is reaching for advice when you need it.

*Please remember this is not a true empirical diagnostic test. Low scores indicate you can work on areas, high scores do not guarantee that you will be resilient when hit by a crisis. If you have any concerns about your resiliency score contact our team at RED DOOR for more discussion. reception@reddoor.hk

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The Benefits of Group Counselling/ Therapeutic support groups.

There is no doubt that individual therapy can help individuals feel better.. Group therapy can be a powerful alternative or addiction to achieve therapeutic results as well.

Group counselling offers unique benefits—working through challenges collectively can reduce feelings of isolation and shame, provide access to shared resources, and often be more affordable than individual therapy.

Who Leads Group Therapy?
Groups can be led by qualified mental health professionals, such as counsellors or psychologists, or facilitated by individuals with lived experience. When choosing a group, consider the facilitator’s qualifications and experience. Some with lived experience are highly capable of guiding others, especially when they have received appropriate training and are not simply sharing their story repeatedly. You are entitled to ask about the leaders depth of experience in addressing an issue.

Cost and Accessibility
Group sessions vary in cost—some are free, while others charge a fee. Typically, group therapy is significantly less expensive than individual sessions, making mental health support more accessible.

Effective Group Dynamics
Successful groups are run by competent leaders who establish clear rules regarding privacy and respect, share the group’s goals, and manage members who may disrupt progress—such as those experiencing emotional dysregulation, refusing to participate, or bringing unrelated issues to the group.

Below is a list of current English-language groups in Hong Kong covering various topics. Please note I haven’t personally experienced all of these groups, so this information isn’t an endorsement but a resource guide.

Counselling & Support Groups in Hong Kong

Iron Fairies
A therapeutic support group for women navigating divorce, run by RED DOOR Counselling. Led by an experienced psychologist and counsellor, it has been active since 2017. The group meets fortnightly at RED DOOR’s Central office, with additional support via a mobile app.
Fee: HKD 300
Contact: WhatsApp 93785428 | Email: angelaw@reddoor.hk

Talk Hong Kong
Offers support groups for survivors of sexual abuse and assault, for both men and women. Facilitated by peer leaders with lived experience, these monthly groups aim to build coping skills, understand personal trauma, and establish healthy boundaries.
More info: https://www.talkhongkong.org/

Special Needs Network Hong Kong
A longstanding support group for parents of children with disabilities, providing education, support, and community connection. Open for over 20 years, it meets monthly—ideal for parents of children with special educational needs.
Website: https://www.snnhk.org/

St. John’s Counselling (Young Adult Group)
A peer-support group for young adults facing mental health challenges, facilitated by counsellors. Suitable for those seeking an alternative to face-to-face individual counselling, with weekly meetings held at St. John’s office.
Contact: 2525 7207 | Email: kimberly.ho@sjcc.hk

The Care Bridge

The Care Bridge is an online group run by counsellors and counsellors in training from RED DOOR Counselling. The group supports adults as they care for relatives at a distance. It can be stressful and worrying looking after people who you are far apart from. The group meets via zoom. Attendance at the group is free.

Contact: WhatsApp 93785428 | Email: angelaw@reddoor.hk

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
A global organization focused on overcoming alcohol addiction through the 12-step program. Meetings are held weekly both in person and online. AA’s approach may not suit everyone, but it remains one of the most effective programs available.
More info: https://www.aa-hk.org/

SMART Recovery
An alternative to AA that does not involve spirituality. It employs a science-based, four-point program empowering individuals to manage cravings, change thoughts and behaviors, and lead balanced lives. Meetings are weekly, available both face-to-face and online.
Instagram/Facebook: @smartrecoveryhk | Website: https://smartrecovery.org/

OCD and Anxiety Support
Monthly group therapy for individuals experiencing severe anxiety, led by qualified counsellors or counsellors in training. A donation is requested, with discounted counselling options available. For OCD.
More info: https://www.ocdanxietyhk.org/

The New Normal
A charity offering monthly mental health support groups on topics like grief, cancer, and under employment. Led mainly by trained volunteers, these sessions are usually free.
Website: https://www.thenewnormalcharityhk.org/

Final Thoughts

Trying a support group can be highly beneficial—you may find it complements individual therapy or serves as an effective standalone approach. If a group isn’t suitable or available, individual counselling remains a valuable option.

About the Author
Angela Watkins is a private practice counsellor and psychologist based at RED DOOR Counselling Hong Kong. She supports adults through divorce, anxiety, depression, substance misuse, abuse, and career transitions. Angela also leads the Iron Fairies group for women navigating divorce, and is also one of the counsellors running the Care Bridge.

Note: If you operate an English-language mental health support group and would like your information to be included contact angelaw@reddoor.hk

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