The Hong Kong Psychology Practice®
Complex Trauma, Sexual Assault & Dissociation
ONLINE & IN-OFFICE WAN CHAI

Specialist trauma psychotherapy grounded in neuroscience and Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR).

The HK Psychology Practice® is a specialist clinic focused on complex trauma, especially sexual abuse and assault (historical or recent), dissociative disorders, eating and body-image difficulties, and anxiety disorders.

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From a neuroscience perspective, psychological “symptoms” are not defects or failures - they are adaptive survival responses shaped by threat, attachment disruption, and unequal power dynamics. When the brain stem detects danger, it organises the body and brain for protection. In contexts of chronic threat, coercion, or relational harm, these protective patterns can persist long after the danger has passed, presenting as anxiety, dissociation, shame, or disordered eating.

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Therapy is focused on working at the level where these responses first formed. Approaches such as Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) target the brain’s earliest threat-detection and orienting responses, allowing traumatic experience to be processed at its source rather than managed at the surface. Treatment is precise, non-overwhelming, and tailored to the individual nervous system.

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This work integrates neurobiological repair with a social-justice-informed understanding of how unequal power dynamics and sociocultural context contribute to distress. Clients are supported to make sense of what happened - and why their responses were necessary - while restoring safety, agency, and choice in the body.

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The aim is not simply symptom reduction, but the development of a stable core sense of self: increased self-trust, emotional clarity, confidence, and autonomy. Recovery occurs when the nervous system no longer needs to stay organised around threat.