Introduction
Shirralee Sisson is a Director at Positive Wellbeing. Educated in the UK at York, Liverpool and Lancaster Universities, she has a very wide experience in mental health covering more than 20 years as a mental health clinician working in a wide range of environments.
Positive Wellbeing offers a range of courses.(see Website reference below). Including but not exclusively Stress Management, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Core skills, Improving Self-Awareness, Emotional Regulation, Proactive Mental Health Awareness and Self-Talk and Inner Coach. Positive wellbeing also runs a wide cross-section of courses in aimed at school children, including courses for Teachers at Primary schools, Secondary schools and courses for Parents Of primary aged students, secondary aged students.
Positive Wellbeing utilises Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Positive Psychology, Mindfulness and DNAv, the Youth Model of Mindfulness and Action during specific training courses.
Mental health like physical health is very important to maintain and improve our wellness. It’s been estimated that 70% of those who need therapy don’t for whatever reason go and access it. In the podcast we cover easy to follow techniques to improve our mental health and our mental well-being.
Timings
03:33 I come from a little village called Oswaldtwistle…
05:57 We lived in Penang… I worked in an international school…
06:45 I come from a background in mental health… mental health awareness…how they can support themselves…training…
09:26 One of the positives about the COVID situation is …we start to talk more about mental health… we have physical health and mental health …
10:59 I trained as a probation officer in the UK… complex issues…a big push of my practice is towards training…
13:04 We’ve all got mental health… physical health…
15:28 Focus on your Breathing… Cognitive Behavioral Therapy… what you think affects how you feel and how you behave… Focus on what you can control… being active… connecting with people…
19:56 Box breathing… different techniques…look at YouTube… experiment with them…
22:56 Yoga, yoga exercises…body scan…mindfulness…
23:55 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy …is like a cognition triangle…
26:58 A high percentage of people…about 70% who need therapy don’t for whatever reason go and access it …
29:01 There is lots of information out there… Mind HK…Cantonese websites…
32:00 I do a number of therapy sessions online…super convenient …
34:41 When you sort out your own business you are everything …
36:30 I started my career as a probation officer… you have to be anonymous…
36:23 Working in wellbeing lets focus on wellbeing…
39:39 [Routine] In between ever single appointment… I walk out of the room…
41:55 At the end of the day I do a to-do list… work is one thing… then you give everything to your life…
45:40 It’s sort of being very flexible…be there to give them skills and strategies… flexibility…
47:55 I am very good at having that awareness about myself…self-care strategies… how I feel when I am starting to get stressed…evaluate…
Contact Shirralee
Website: https://positivewellbeinghk.com
Email Sirralee: Shirralee@positivewellbeinghk.com
Email: training@positivewellbeinghk.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shirralee-sisson-320216b0/
Useful information
Mind HK: Homepage https://www.mind.org.hk
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