WHY US?

At Healing Heart Counselling, our passion is mental health care, and our priority is facilitating healing and the alleviation of mental health issues.We strongly believe in the importance of restoring our clients' purpose, dignity, and humanity throughout their journey.As a private practice, we are committed to upholding core values, ensuring our services prioritize quality, integrity, and affordability for all members of the community in need.

WE CAN HELP

Healing Heart Counselling specializes in the treatment of depression, anxiety, and trauma (including PTSD and C-PTSD).We have extensive experience supporting clients through severe life events such as sexual assault, domestic abuse, and molestation, alongside providing specialized care for first responders and combat veterans managing PTSD.Additionally, we expertly guide individuals through complex challenges like intense grief and debilitating work-related stress.

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At Healing Heart Counselling, we offer a holistic, integrated approach combining Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, CBT, and Guided Imagery to address your issues from their roots and help you process emotions effectively.We also specialize in our trademark VTuber Integrated Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (VTIPP / VTIP) for treating PTSD and Anxiety Disorders, where either or both parties can use VTuber models for therapeutic comfort and safety.You can choose your session format: traditional Online Face-to-Face or Online VTubing Counselling. This comprehensive method aims for significant, long-lasting improvement, recognizing that individual outcomes will vary.

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Depression

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• Depression

PTSD / C-PTSD

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• PTSD

VTUBER COUNSELLING

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Brandon H. S. LimCredentialsM. Coun. (Master of Counselling)
2025Postgraduate Diploma
Counselling Psychology
2021BA (Hons)
Business Management
2018

I SPECIALIZE IN

• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

• VTuber Integrated Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (VTIPP)

• Narrative Therapy

• Visualization

I employ a comprehensive, integrative approach built upon Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, CBT, and Visualisation. We use the Psychoanalytic foundation to safely address unresolved traumas and emotions that have been pushed into the unconscious mind, pacing the work to prevent complications. This deep exploration is complemented by CBT to manage cognitive distortions and periodic emotional processing to maintain stability. The ultimate goal is to bring you into accord with yourself, allowing you to embrace your past as a valuable source of learning and growth.

What are VTubers?

A V-Tuber model involves using 3d and 2d characters that are animated through the use of webcam for the purpose of facial and ''full-body'' tracking.

3D VROID Model Used in Therapy
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3D VROID Model Used in Therapy
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For Clients with Anxiety

For individuals struggling with anxiety, particularly social anxiety, our VTubing counselling option provides a unique layer of comfort and safety. The use of a VTuber avatar provides a sense of anonymity and distance, helping to quell undue fears of judgment or the stress of an in-person meeting. This safe environment allows clients to open up more freely while unconsciously building and learning crucial interpersonal and communication skills over time.

For Clients with PTSD

For clients struggling with PTSD, remaining grounded during therapeutic work can be incredibly challenging. Our VTuber Integrated Psychotherapy (VTIPP) helps mitigate this difficulty by having the client or therapist use a VTuber model. Because the avatar is visually and characteristically fictional, it serves as a powerful grounding mechanism for the client. This slight distance and fictional element enhance the feeling of safety and stability, making the complex process of trauma processing more manageable.

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Trauma

PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) & C-PTSD (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)

PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), which can occur following a single traumatic event like an accident or violence, is more common than often perceived. Symptoms include hypervigilance, irritability, mood swings, and physical (somatic) distress. C-PTSD (Complex PTSD), however, results from prolonged or repeated exposure to trauma, such as chronic abuse or neglect. C-PTSD presents with a broader range of difficulties, including dissociation, memory issues, and profound difficulties with social skills. We provide specialized therapy to address the specific, lasting effects of both conditions.

Our Approach

Our method for treating PTSD is an integrative and wholistic approach targeting five core client needs: Emotions, Logic, Diet, Socialization, and Experiences. We establish Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy as the foundation, layering on CBT, Narrative Therapy, and Guided Imagery to safely confront past traumas and individuals. This process is carefully paced with a strong emphasis on continuous emotional processing to mitigate the risk of re-traumatization. Ultimately, our goal is to help you achieve self-acceptance and bring you into accord with yourself, leading to lasting peace regarding your past.

How We Help

Trauma significantly impacts your psychological health and brain function, affecting areas like the amygdala, frontal cortex, and hippocampus. To address this holistically, our approach uses Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy as its foundation, paired with CBT and Narrative Therapy. We also utilize Guided Imagery to help you confront and make peace with past issues, building confidence and self-discovery. This treatment follows a structured, multi-stage path—from Safety and Stabilization to Remembrance and Mourning, concluding with Reconnection and Integration—to help you redefine yourself as a survivor.

®VTIPP (VTuber Integrated Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy)

VTuber Integrated Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (VTIPP)
We offer the exclusive VTuber Integrated Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (VTIPP), utilizing your chosen 2D or 3D avatar to facilitate deep self-understanding and trauma resolution. Your VTuber model is viewed as the external manifestation of your unconscious mind, reflecting past experiences and unresolved emotions. Through a series of specialized visualizations and guided imagery, we work to safely reunite and integrate this part of your life with your conscious self, leading to greater wholeness and healing.

Depression

Insight

Also known as the valley of the soul, depression is a condition caused by a multitude of factors. These factors are broken into two categories to help you better understand.

Depression in a nutshell

Depression fundamentally affects energy levels, often requiring much more energy and effort just to perform daily and work-related tasks, leading to pervasive fatigue. This condition severely impacts basic physiological functions, resulting in disturbances in appetite and significant problems with sleep (either insomnia or excessive sleeping). Crucially, even when sleep is achieved, the individual typically wakes up with no feeling of rest or rejuvenation.

Primary Causes

Depression often stems from being trapped in cycles of aversive, external circumstances, such as harassment, bullying, major financial issues, divorce, job loss, or the death of a loved one. These detrimental life experiences and losses act as a catalyst, driving the condition far beyond typical sadness and potentially into the realm of existential distress. Furthermore, persistent struggle against societal or life pressures that continually press one down can significantly worsen depressive states. Addressing these core external factors is vital in understanding and treating the condition.

How to Help

Our approach to helping clients with depression rooted in external factors involves two key strategies. First, we focus on emotional processing in real-time, helping you identify symptom triggers, and develop healthy coping mechanisms while simultaneously addressing the practical issues causing distress. Second, we take a practical perspective, working with you to set reasonable and realistic goals that you can actively pursue. By combining emotional support with actionable steps, we aim to help you gain freedom from the situation driving your depression.

Genetics

When depression is primarily influenced by genetics, we recommend a two-pronged, holistic approach for effective management. This typically involves Psychopharmacological intervention (medication, prescribed by a medical professional) working in tandem with Psychotherapy (talk therapy). The combined aim of this treatment strategy is to help stabilize mood and enable the client to function more readily and normally in their daily life.

Anxiety

What Causes Anxiety?

Anxiety is primarily predicated on the fear of anticipated future events or potential outcomes, rather than an immediate threat. While fear is a natural, momentary response to present danger, it can evolve into chronic anxiety when an individual is overly exposed to adverse circumstances. This persistent exposure anchors the mind in a state of hyper-vigilance, leading to a focus on potential harm and triggering the ongoing dread characteristic of anxiety

Anxiety from a biological perspective

Anxiety is fundamentally a by-product of stress, triggered by a surge of stress hormones, primarily cortisol, which activates the body's alert system. Subjectively, this experience is best described as being lost in uncertainty and feeling an intense sense of dread. This dread is directed toward anticipated or potential negative outcomes and future events, causing persistent psychological and physical distress.

How to Help Anxiety

We recognize that anxiety is rooted in adverse, real-life experiences and valid concerns which amplify negative thought processes, leading to symptoms like panic attacks, avoidance, and physical distress. Our treatment addresses the root causes through a combined approach of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and CBT. We simultaneously target past influences (like upbringing), current life events, and future worries in a practical, hands-on manner. This integrated method, bolstered by Guided Imagery, helps iron out concerns and build lasting confidence.

®VTIPP (VTuber Integrated Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy)

Our use of VTuber Integrated Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (VTIPP) for anxiety mirrors our trauma approach, beginning by fostering a deeper self-understanding and clarifying the core issues that drive your anxieties. We then use guided imagery to help you safely troubleshoot and confront triggering scenarios, which simultaneously assists in building practical confidence. The ultimate goal is to utilize this unique method to help you achieve self-acceptance and lasting accord with yourself.

Tools of the Trade

Narrative Therapy

Narrative Therapy approaches problems by separating the person from the issue, helping you view problems as external entities rather than innate personal flaws. We work together to explore your life story, identifying moments of strength, skill, and resilience that have been overshadowed by the dominant, problem-saturated narrative. By co-creating a new, preferred life story, this approach helps you reconnect with your values and reshape your identity as competent and capable of overcoming difficulties.

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy provides the foundation for deep healing, working to resolve the underlying, often unconscious conflicts rooted in past experiences and early life relationships. The goal is to gain profound self-insight into how these historical patterns influence your current behaviors, relationships, and emotional struggles. By bringing these buried issues to conscious awareness, we facilitate lasting change, ensuring that current symptoms are not simply managed but truly understood and resolved at their source.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

CBT is a practical, goal-oriented approach focusing on the here and now. It helps you identify and change the negative thought patterns and unhelpful behaviors that fuel emotional distress like depression and anxiety. By teaching you to recognize how your thoughts, feelings, and actions are interconnected, CBT equips you with concrete strategies to manage symptoms and replace destructive cycles with more adaptive responses. This process ultimately empowers you to regain control over your mood and actions.

Visualisation

We utilize Guided Imagery as a powerful tool to help you safely confront and process difficult emotions and past scenarios in a controlled environment. For trauma and anxiety, this technique helps you build emotional capacity and confidence, moving beyond avoidance toward acceptance. The ultimate aim is to use these internal rehearsals to bring your unconscious and conscious self into accord, allowing you to make peace with the past and integrate those experiences for lasting wholeness.

®VTIPP (VTuber Integrated Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy)

We utilize our exclusive VTuber Integrated Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (VTIPP) to treat both anxiety and PTSD, offering a unique layer of comfort and safety, particularly for those with social anxiety. The chosen 2D or 3D avatar acts as the external manifestation of your unconscious mind, reflecting past issues and serving as a crucial grounding mechanism for clients struggling with trauma. This distance helps quell fears of judgment, allowing you to open up more freely while safely using guided imagery to confront triggers and build confidence. By integrating your avatar and conscious self, VTIPP facilitates deep self-understanding and leads to greater wholeness and lasting self-acceptance.