Tara Subatraa S
Invited Speaker
Registered & Licensed Counsellor (LKM), Mental Health Practitioner, and Student Well-being Specialist with over nine years of professional experience providing counselling, psychosocial support, and behavioural interventions across educational and community settings. Experienced in delivering individual and group counselling, psychoeducation, case management, behavioural intervention, and evidence-based mental health support for children, adolescents, adults, and families. Committed to promoting psychological well-being, emotional resilience, and positive coping strategies through ethical, person-centred, and strengths-based counselling practice. Skilled in conducting psychosocial assessments, developing intervention and support plans, maintaining professional documentation, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver holistic care. My professional experience spans counselling, student well-being, mental health promotion, behavioural support, learning support, family consultation, and community education. Guided by a strong foundation in psychology and counselling, I am passionate about empowering individuals to overcome challenges, strengthen resilience, develop healthy coping strategies, and improve their overall quality of life while contributing to positive mental health outcomes within the community.
The Break-up Experience of Romantic Relationship and Post traumatic Growth Among Vicenarian Adults AbstractThis paper explains the breakup experiences of romantic relationships, coping strategies, and post-traumatic growth (PTG) among vicenarian adults. It employed a qualitative-based research design using a phenomenological method. Snowball and purposive sampling methods were used to select seven participants with a background of romantic relationship breakup experience within two years. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect participant data, and data were analyzed using a thematic analysis procedure. This study found that romantic relationships included understanding of love, utmost happiness in love, and need in love. In contrast, breakups indicated decision-making, emotional impact, and self-blame. Besides, the result also reported that the coping methods involved emotional engagement and acceptance state (duration taken to overcome the emotions). After a romantic relationship breakup, self-growth was found more in personal strength, close relationships, new possibilities, spiritual development, and greater appreciation of life as PTG implications. The findings concluded that breakup-experienced participants coped through the grief process and enhanced their self-growth. This study helped to create awareness among society to view their grief as a growth-oriented process. Keywords: Breakup experience, coping mechanism, mental health, post-traumatic growth, romantic relationship, stages of grief