• What is Counselling Psychology?

    • Characterized by its emphasis on prevention of psychological disorders, which is an important area in applied psychology, counselling psychology helps people to discover their strengths and potentials to manage their difficulties across life span.
    • By adopting the Scientist-practitioner Approach, counselling psychologists would be able to apply various knowledge of counselling psychology to practice.
    • Professionally recognized counselling psychologists in Hong Kong possess an accredited postgraduate or doctoral degree in Counselling Psychology; have engaged in psychotherapy research and psychological assessment trainings, and have accumulated a certain number of clock hours of supervised practicum.

  • What are the different types of registered psychologists in Hong Kong?

    According to the Hong Kong Psychological Society, there are 4 types of registered psychologists in Hong Kong:


    Counselling Psychologists

    • Apply counselling psychology and help people to understand and cope with individual and career problems across their life span;
    • Help people to discover their strengths and potentials through psychological assessment;
    • Provide holistic and preventive counselling services.

    Clinical Psychologists

    • Apply psychology and psychopathology and provide psychological assessment and diagnosis to patients with mental disorders;
    • Provide psychological treatments like cognitive behavioural therapy to guide patients to cope with their mental problems

    Educational Psychologists

    • Engage in course design, education system improvement, and enhance all-round development among students, teachers and parents
    • Increase students' learning motivation and help them cope with various difficulties and challenges in the course of growth and development.

    Industrial-Organizational Psychologists

    • Apply psychological knowledge to workplace and use scientific methods to promote organizational policy development and personnel management so as to enhance psychological health and performance within an organization.

  • What are the benefits of psychological counselling?

    Counselling psychologists or counsellors provide counselling services with confidentiality safeguarded. They help people analyze and tackle the roots of their problems. Psychological counselling focuses on the importance of personal growth, internal resources and potentials, interpersonal relationship and mental health. It is not confined to people with psychological difficulties. Anyone who wishes to enhance their personal growth can also be benefited.