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Leon holds a Diploma in Tourism studies, a Graduate Diploma in Social Science and Counselling, as well as a Master’s of Professional Counselling from Swinburne University of Technology specialising in Marital Family Therapy and Group Counselling work. He holds a Practitioner Certificate awarded by Transactional Analysis Association USA & Singapore. Hence, he is a Practitioners Level Member of Transactional Analysis Association Singapore. Leon also holds a Virtue International Academy Certificate of Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR). He is a certified fitness instructor & National Registered Coach with Sports SG with a Specialist Diploma in Fitness Nutrition by International Sports Science Academy. Leon is currently a Provisional Clinical Member of Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC).

Leon's career in education and wellbeing, beginning since the age of 19 as a teacher, instructor, and coach for various companies and eventually the holistic wellbeing (including psychological training and health) industry, gave him the privilege of having worked with various client groups ranging from children to adults. He believes in honouring everyone's unique psychological, emotional needs, issues and impacts they went through. Therefore, he believes he has enough multicultural exposure, awareness, and positive regard for client's being the experts of how they navigated their life journey and situation, and yet be able to value add helping clients achieve their goals because of his studies, training, and professional experiences.
 
Leon is especially interested in various issues: addictions, trauma and general life struggles of any kind, families who need relationship coaching or counselling to enhance their relationship and psychological fulfilment(s) to build a sustainable psychologically healthy family system (especially if the family has been through something traumatic) be it arising from family woes or personal issues. He specifically has experiences and interests in: work-life balance/ time management for holistic wellbeing and checking in or uncovering emotional and psychological issues that are possibly layered behind relationship or behavioural issues (For example, parenting woes in general or specifically due to cyber wellness).

Leon believes in creating a space where there will be no judgement and instead, co-creating solutions with your unique experiences and situation by being as attuned and aligned with your situation and your perspectives. He believes a therapist’s job is in facilitating the setting of the session(s) goals, co-creating solutions, exploring how best to manage the processes, and even better, value add overcoming the challenge(s) or enhancing one's life journey tangibly.

For the main crux of working with emotionally related issue(s), Leon uses TA - a counselling practice focused to "unpack and untangle" long term thoughts that formed our life goals. TA is designed to access and analyze our internal and external impactful communications including “negative scripts” (beliefs) that may have caused unproductive negative thoughts and behaviours consciously or subconsciously. Changing these scripts empowers us to navigate and journey our life with higher awareness. Thereafter, the reevaluation of behaviour to draw out the authentic self and enable us to evaluate our mindsets and our "inner" emotional health tangibly and mindfully will help us set goals that are aligned with our most authentic fulfilling "true" life goals and usually, a personal breakthrough that will be positively life changing.