About Us

The Psychotherapy Society of Hong Kong is a multidisciplinary association of psychotherapists and counsellors in Hong Kong . Members come from a variety of mental health and related disciplines including psychiatry, clinical psychology, counselling, family medicine, and social work. The membership also comprises a number of different nationalities and ethnicities. Full or Associate Membership is awarded on the basis of qualifications, training, and supervised experience

The Society was registered in 1995 with the aims of furthering the increase of knowledge about psychotherapy within Hong Kong, enabling the exchange of knowledge and experience among relevant professionals, promoting training in psychotherapy, and supporting the ethical practice of psychotherapy in Hong Kong. Since that time it has held regular learned meetings, sponsored educational events and supervision groups, and provided a forum for clinicians to meet and discuss topics of professional concern.

Learned meetings reflect the varied clinical, professional and intellectual interests of members of the Society. Topics have included: cognitive analytic therapy, hypnosis, sex therapy, art therapy, family mediation, psychotherapeutic resistance, dreams in psychotherapy, cognitive treatment of panic disorder and psychosis, crisis intervention and suicide, trauma and complicated bereavement, working with difficult child and adolescent cases, psychotherapy with the Chinese, Asian contributions to psychotherapy, multicultural counselling, psychoanalysis and spirituality, and legal issues in psychotherapy and counselling. Speakers include well-known local and international practitioners and academics.

Written by Dr. Nia Pryde for the Federation of Medical Societies of Hong Kong 2006