Rethink The Couch Into the Bedrooms and Boardrooms of Asia with an Expat Therapist

by Friedman, Sylvia Yu; Heiliczer, Allison

• ISBN13: 9789815144062
• ISBN10: 9815144065
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-12-05
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

Get a gripping glimpse into the therapy room and most powerful boardrooms in Asia in this first ever self-help collection of essays by an expatriate therapist from New York City In more than a decade as a psychotherapist to some of Asia’ s most powerful couples and businesspeople, expat New Yorker Allison Heiliczer has seen it all. From toxic offices and complex relationships, boardroom power and bedroom failure, doomed marriages and ill-advised affairs, workaholism, loneliness, lies; these are struggles more common than many of us care to admit. Heiliczer lays them all bare through the prism of culture and is expert in understanding what makes those embroiled in them tick.

Author Biography

Allison Heiliczer is an American psychotherapist who has been living in Asia for over a decade. She is the founder of Rethink the Couch and works with adult individuals and couples in Singapore and around the world. Heiliczer was the former Head of Corporate Psychology at OT&P’ s clinics in Hong Kong. While the hundreds of individuals and couples she has supported in clinical and private practice settings face various challenges, the common thread is they are navigating relationship and work issues.