HONG KONG, Dec. 23, 2025 – Maple Tree Counselling, a Central, Hong Kong-based therapy practice, is expanding its services due to consistent demand for mental health support focused on relationships. As it begins its fourth year, the practice will inaugurate a fourth therapy room in January 2026 and welcome new practitioners to accommodate a client base that is growing in both size and diversity.
Operating from three therapy rooms in the China Building on Queen’s Road Central, the practice assists individuals, couples, adolescents, and families from various cultural and professional backgrounds. Its ongoing expansion is credited to its central position, multilingual offerings, a team of diverse practitioners, a wide selection of therapeutic approaches, and mid-range pricing within Hong Kong’s private therapy sector.
Couples counselling has become one of the practice’s most rapidly expanding specialties. Five counsellors are currently dedicated to this area, serving clients in various relationship configurations such as married couples, new partners, non-monogamous relationships, same-sex couples, and cross-cultural partnerships. The practice stresses that all therapy is customized to the unique dynamics and challenges of each couple, acknowledging the intricate social and cultural fabric of relationships in Hong Kong.
To enhance its couples counselling services, Maple Tree Counselling has announced that Paul Vallis will become an Associate Counsellor in mid-January 2026. Vallis provides therapy for individuals and couples, concentrating on recognizing behavioural patterns, fostering emotional awareness, and aiding clients in gaining new perspectives for lasting change. His clientele covers a wide age spectrum and includes people from diverse cultural, ethnic, and professional backgrounds.
Vallis uses a collaborative therapeutic style that emphasizes trust and genuine connection. His expertise encompasses anxiety, depression, stress management, anger, self-esteem issues, alcohol dependency, and relationship problems. He has experience assisting young professionals looking for strategies to handle anxiety and performance stress, as well as senior executives dealing with complicated personal and professional relationships.
A significant component of Vallis’s work is couples counselling. He assists partners in enhancing communication, restoring trust, handling conflict, tackling intimacy issues, reconciling differing values or expectations, and healing from relationship breaches, including infidelity. His methodology incorporates research-supported techniques like the Gottman Method, a well-regarded, evidence-based practice in couples therapy.
The Gottman Method is also utilized by Julia Laubscher, a couples specialist at Maple Tree Counselling. Laubscher notes that the framework provides couples with an organized method to comprehend and fortify their relationship. The model, called the “Sound Relationship House,” concentrates on establishing emotional safety, trust, and connection while offering practical skills for communication and conflict resolution. Via guided discussions and exercises, couples learn to spot negative interaction cycles and cultivate increased empathy, understanding, and intimacy.
Besides Vallis and Laubscher, Associate Counsellor Kari Entwisle has broadened her practice at Maple Tree Counselling to incorporate couples therapy. Entwisle assists couples with communication problems, persistent conflict, and relationship changes, including separation when necessary. The couples team is further strengthened by Nicola Shannon and John Mok-Lamme, widening the spectrum of expertise and viewpoints accessible to clients.
Couples counselling sessions at Maple Tree Counselling are priced in the mid-market bracket for private therapy in Hong Kong. Each session lasts 80 minutes and costs between HK$2,400 and HK$3,000, varying by therapist.
Established in 2021 by a group of colleagues and friends, Maple Tree Counselling was created to meet the rising need for accessible, high-quality mental health services in Hong Kong. The practice is named for the maple tree, a symbol in many cultures denoting strength, resilience, protection, tolerance, and connection. Beyond its Hong Kong office, Maple Tree Counselling also has practices in Central Victoria and Melbourne, Australia.
The expansion of Maple Tree Counselling mirrors wider trends in the demand for professional, culturally sensitive therapy services that cater to both individual and relationship needs, as awareness of mental health and relationship wellbeing increases.
Further details regarding Maple Tree Counselling’s services and team can be found at
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For more information about Maple Tree Counselling, contact the company here:
Maple Tree Counselling
Anjali Nihalchand
+852 6375 6098
info@mapletreecounselling.com
19th Floor, China Building, 29 Queen’s Road Central, Central, Hong Kong
CONTACT: Anjali Nihalchand
