Fanny KO

Fanny holds a space of grounded presence for her clients to provide safety for them to explore and work on their issues. It can be dissatisfaction in work, family, health and other interpersonal relationships or overcoming anxiety and depression, PTSD or other general problems. After sessions, clients will generally have more insights about their inner conflicts and repeated patterns, learn more self-regulation tools, heal emotional and psychological problems, and make better conscious choices. Hence, past experience be converted into a healing gift, and Moving Forward into a dynamic and beautiful life!

Characteristics of Fanny’s work

CLIENT CENTERED Fanny has been trained in supportive deep listening. With honest empathetic and unconditional relationship with the client, she establishes an open and non-judgmental atmosphere in which the client has the time and space to make the discoveries that are necessary for progress to occur.

BASED ON LATEST SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Fanny is constantly updating her skills and knowledge. Her techniques are based on the most current research. Due to the advances in neuroscience, we now know more about how our brain encodes experience, and how to help people heal and feel whole again. She will incorporate recent findings such as Dr Stephen Porges’s Polyvagal Theory into practice to benefit her clients.

BODY-ORIENTED All our experience, no matter good or bad, are stored in different parts of our body. Some of these memories are non-verbal and can be evoked through a sound, smell or image. With some, we cannot even recall the source of these triggers nor the details of an event. However, our reaction is encoded into our nervous system. This will have an effect on our emotions, reactions and thoughts. This in turn affects our relationships and the way we see and interpret the world.
By incorporating the body, clients are able to access a deeper part of themselves. Latest research indicates that adding body awareness will enhance recovery of the disturbed nervous system and achieve outcomes that talk therapy alone cannot always reach.
Co-author of the following publications • Suicide Counseling in the Satir Model: Reflections on Clinical Practice (In Chinese), (2005), Hong Kong: Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, University of Hong Kong.
• Perception of Doctors and Nurses on the Care and Bereavement Support for Relatives of Terminally Ill Patients in an Acute Setting. Hong Kong Journal of Psychiatry, 2006, 16(1), 7-13.

Feedback from workshop participants
• I enjoy the interactive mode.
• The speaker explains in plain and easy ways; enable participants to follow and relax within short time.
• Lively explanation and contents are practical in daily lives. With plenty of exercises enable me to better understand how to put the theory into practice.
• I understand the benefits of grounding now.
• The metaphor of ‘lobster behind tsunami’ inspires me to another thought.
• The resources list inspires me to re-think / understand myself more.
• The speaker’s lively and humorous style makes the workshop contents more impressive.
• I am now more aware of my own physical condition and can be-friend with myself.
• Small game to start off the workshop can help me use my five senses to experience content of the workshop.