Sarah S. C. LEE
Ms Lee has a rich life, social and working experience. She is a mother and also a grandmother. She has been committed to parent education, training counsellor intern, promoing mental health education, prevention of student suicidal cases, life and death education, and explorating future direction for senior high schools students and tertiary students. She is also teaching classes of career and life planning classes in professional teachers associtation, classes of Alzheimer's disease in elderly, emotional and beahvioural disorders, counselling skills, grief counselling and life education in professional healthcare workers training centre. She has also been providing counselling services to LGBTI organizations that has given her expertise and extensive experience.
She specifies in counselling individuals with depression disorders, anxiety disorders, relationship issues, marital or family issues, personal growth issues, parenting issues, LGBTI issues and career and life planning issues.
Personal and Professional Qualifications
Master of Social Sciences in Counselling Psychology, Hong Kong Shue Yan University
Registered Counselling Psychologist of The Hong Kong Psychological Society
Registered Clinical Supervisor of Asian Professional Counselling and Psychology Association
Registered Counsellor of Asian Professional Counselling and Psychology Association
Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF) trainer (accredited in USA)
Hong Kong Character City Movement & Josh McDowell Ministry: 6As Positive Parenting Facilitator
Certificate of Mental Health First Aid, University of Melbourne
Professional Experience
- Working at Crisis Call Centre providing emotional support and suicide risk assessment services to the general public.
- Life Coach in non-profit organizations providing counselling services to primary school students in low-income families, organizing parent meetings, collecting materials for parent & child publications and offering counselling with writing.
- Published internet articles about psychology education and promotes mental health within the community.
- Wolunteer Mentor in non-profit and social welfare organizations and designed seminars and workshops relating to mental health, and provided emotional support and counselling services.
- Counselling Psychologist Trainee at mainstream primary schools and provided counselling assessment, individual / group counselling services to students.
- Counselling Psychologist Trainee at vocational training schools and provided counselling assessment, individual / group counselling services to teenagers who have left schools and are looking for jobs.
- Counselling Psychologist Trainee at CRC and provided psychological assessment and counselling services such as personal growth, emotional, family, social relationship and career counselling to the general public.
- Counselling Psychologist Trainee in patients' mutual help organizations and organized psychology workshops for the general public.
- Chairlady and Consultant of Chinese Women Association of Vancouver and provided settlement and emotional support services to new immigrant women in Canada.
- Volunteer Trainer of the first Chinese-speaking crisis hotline in North America and provided emotional support and suicide risk assessment services to the Chinese people in Vancouver, Canada.
Scope of Services
- Parenting / Parent-child counselling
- Child and youth counselling and assessment
- Adult counselling and assessment
- Personal growth and career counselling and assessment
- Marriage / Single-parent counselling
- Interpersonal relationship counselling
- Immigration counselling
- Grief and bereavement counselling
- Depression counselling
- Counselling for suicide survivors
- Life education seminar
- Suicide prevention education seminar
- Positive psychology seminar
- Cognitive behaviour therapy seminar
- Women self-training seminar
- Seminar on adjustment to retirement
- Group and organizational counselling
- School-based psychological counselling
- Corporate trainings and seminars
Research Interests
- Psychological counselling and therapy for people with depression
- Counselling models of life-stage development
- Parents education and support
- Life education
Office: LG523, Main Building, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, 10 Wai Tsui Crescent, Braemar Hill Road, North Point
Tel: (852)2806 7333
Fax: (852)2806 7334
Email: sclee_crc@hksyu.edu