MSocSc (Counselling), Dip/CFBT, DipHRM, DipNursing

Counsellor

Ingrid holds a Master of Social Science in Counselling from the University of South Australia, a certificate in Solution Focussed Brief Therapist (CSFT) from Academy of SF Training, Singapore, a Diploma in Human Resource Management at Kaplan, Singapore, and is a qualified Nurse from Germany. Ingrid is German national, she has been living in Singapore for more than 12 years. She has varied working experiences with both the Expatriates and local population. She had helped clients in different ranges of personal crises, from chronically illnesses, sexual abuse, addictions, parenting issues, relocation adjustments to career issues. Her further areas of interest are anxiety, depression, stress symptoms, eating disorders, and relationship issues. Ingrid works with children, teenagers, individual adults, couples and families.

Ingrid's aim is to encourage clients to find their strength beyond their current difficulties. In counselling she believes in supporting and encouraging clients to understand and create changes through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and other Integrated Counselling approaches. She sees her clients’ confidence and personal growth improved in their relationships and has been successful in projecting skills towards my clients’ goals. In her counselling session she aims to energize personal growth that increases efficiency in clients’ personal and professional lives. She is fluent in German and English.

Appointment Hours: Mondays & Tuesdays 4pm to 7pm, Wednesdays 9am to 12noon, & Thursdays 10am to 12noon

MSocSci (Psychotherapy), HDip Healthcare Management, DASS, CQSW, Rgg, FTAI, ICP, EAP

Registered Psychotherapist / Mediator

Deirdre holds a Masters Degree in Systemic Psychotherapy from the National University of Ireland, Dublin, a Postgraduate qualification in Social Work, as well as Healthcare Management. She is also a qualified Mediator. Deirdre is registered with The Family Therapy Association of Ireland, the Irish Council of Psychotherapy and the European Association of Psychotherapy.

Deirdre is Irish and moved to Singapore in 2010. She has worked for more than 25 years in clinical settings such as hospitals, child guidance settings, schools, in private practice as well as in the corporate world with large multi-national businesses. As an expat herself, Deirdre has experience with both executives and children and families in Germany, Russia, the UK, China, and Denmark. She specialises in working with adults, children, or families where they are trying to solve a particular problem, habit or way of thinking that is making them feel stuck in their current life and where they are keen to leave the issue behind them, and need some help along the way to do so. These cover relationship, family problems, work problems, and many areas such as struggles with mental health, addiction, behaviour problems, and recovery from abuse situations. Deirdre has also trained executives in Cross-cultural adaptation in Beijing, London and Dublin.

Deirdre uses a systemic approach exploring the topic from the point of view of the different people viewing the problem. She is practical and future oriented not ignoring the past but using the past to provide clues about how to move forward. She utilises narrative and solution focused approaches when appropriate.

Appointment Hours:  Mondays & Wednesdays, 3pm to 7pm. (7pm fully booked)

MSocSc (Counselling)

Counsellor

Hiroko is Japanese and holds a Master of Social Science degree in Counselling from the University of South Australia and a certificate in Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) from the EMDR Institute, Inc..

Hiroko first moved to Singapore in 2001, after having lived in Hong Kong for nearly 6 years. As an experienced expatriate, she is familiar with the issues facing expatriate individuals, couples and families, especially those with young children. She has considerable experience in counselling both individuals & couples in multi-cultural relationships, particularly where either or both clients are Japanese.

Hiroko has also worked with employees of major international companies (and their families), dealing with a wide range of issues including work-stress, relationship, separation & divorce, spousal abuse, depression, anxiety, panic attacks and sexuality. She has also worked as a volunteer in several homes for young children in Singapore. She is able to work with children, teenager, individual adults, couples, and families.

Hiroko takes an integrative approach to counselling but focuses on Person-Centred approach and where appropriate, uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). She is fluent in Japanese & English.

Appointment Hours:  Mondays 3pm to 7pm, Fridays 10am to 2pm, & Saturdays, 10am to 2pm. (6pm & 7pm fully booked!)

MHealth Sc, GradDip (Counselling), BA (Psychology)

Registered Psychologist (Provisional)

Rachael holds a Master of Health Science degree from the University of Sydney, Australia, a Graduate Diploma in Counselling from Australian College of Applied Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Swinburne Institute of Technology, Australia and a certificate in Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) from the EMDR Institute, Inc.. She is a provisionally registered Psychologist with Australia’s New South Wales Psychologists’ Registration Board.

Rachael relocated to Singapore from Australia where she was employed in a private practice completing assessments, writing reports and providing feedback as well as being the first point of contact for clients seeking assistance from a therapist. Previously, Rachael worked for some ten years as a Recruitment Consultant, incorporating her counselling skills within a corporate business environment, providing career guidance and support to candidates with work-related concerns.

In Singapore, Rachael works with children, teenagers, individual adults, couples, and families on a wide range of issues. Her particular interest areas are bullying and self-esteem issues, vocational guidance, couples work, anxiety and mood disorders. A special interest area she has is in the neuroscience of brain adaptability and the brain’s potential for change and applying this in the therapeutic session to inform the client of their brain’s potential for change and the steps they can take to effect that change as desired.

Appointment Hours:     Tuesdays 2pm to 7pm, Wednesdays 9am to 12noon, & Thursdays 11am to 2pm. (6pm & 7pm fully booked!)

MA (Psychology), BA (Hons) Psychology, EMDR, MAPS, MSPS

Director / Registered Psychologist

Shee Wai is the Founder and Director of The Counselling Place.  She holds a Masters Degree in Psychology from the University of Newcastle, Australia, a certificate in Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) from the EMDR Institute, USA, and a certificate in Advance Training in Ericksonian Psychotherapy and Hypnosis from the Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc.  She is an accredited facilitator for the FOCCUS marriage preparation and enrichment programme.  Shee Wai has extensive clinical experience working with children, adolescents, individuals, couples and families in both Australia and Singapore.  She has provided individual and group training and supervision to other counsellors.

Shee Wai has 14 years of clinical experience and has been helping expatriates deal with their various life challenges in Singapore since 2002.  She specializes in marital and relationship counselling.  She has been helping couples with issues such as marital and relational conflicts; divorce and separation; marriage preparation and enrichment; cross-cultural relationship issues and parenting concerns.  She also works with individuals on stress management, depression, anxiety, phobia, pain management, and grief and loss.  Her training in EMDR enables her to be especially effective in working with all sort of trauma, e.g., family of origin and painful past experiences, accident, natural disaster, assault, rape or sexual abuse.  Shee Wai also provides psychological assessment for adults and children.  Having been a Home Study assessor for adoption, she is also able to provide pre-adoption and post-adoption counselling for individuals and couples on adoption related issues.

Shee Wai is registered as a Psychologist with Psychology Board of Australia and is approved as a Supervisor. She is also registered as a Psychologist with the Singapore Psychological Society.  She is a member of both the Australian Psychological Society and the Singapore Psychological Society.  Shee Wai has conducted talks and workshops on various topics, has granted numerous interviews with various newspapers and magazines, and has made several appearances as guest consultant for radio programs.  She is fluent in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese.

Appointment Hours:  Wednesdays, Fridays, & Saturdays, 10am to 4pm. (Saturdays fully booked!)

Cand. Psychol. (Not Accepting New Clients)

Certified Clinical Psychologist

Linda is a certified Clinical Psychologist from Norway. She holds a Cand. Psychol degree from The University of Norway which is equivalent to a Master level degree. She is a member of The Norwegian Psychological Association and a candidate at the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Institute.

Linda relocated from Norway to Singapore in 2010. In Norway, she has varied clinical experience working at both in- and outpatient units in public healthcare. She has provided assessment and therapy for teenagers and adults for a wide range of psychological problems, e.g. anxiety, depression, mood and psychotic disorders, sleeping problems, drug addictions, eating disorders and difficulties in establishing and maintaining relationships. She has experience working with refugees coming to Norway. She has also worked at the Family ward unit at Oslo University hospital with family therapy on issues such as parenting, divorce and illness. She has a special interest for working with relational, identity and self-esteem related problems.

Linda is trained in Psychodynamic, cognitive and family oriented approaches. She has special expertise in Psychodynamic approaches and is currently under further education at The Norwegian Psychological Association and the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Institute. She will choose the approach most appropriate for each individual client/family, taking the current problem and the clients history and preferred style for working into consideration. She is fluent in English and Norwegian. She also understands Swedish and Danish.

Appointment Hours:  Thursdays 4pm to 7pm (6pm & 7pm fully booked!)

MSc (Therapeutic Counselling), BA (Hons) Development Studies, MBACP (Not Accepting New Clients)

Counsellor / Accredited Mediator / Acting Assistant Director

Jessica holds a Master of Science degree in Therapeutic Counselling from the University of Greenwich, London, England and she is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She is also a qualified mediator. She also has a certificate in Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) from the EMDR Institute, Inc.

Jessica is British and moved to Singapore in 2009. She has experienced firsthand some of the challenges involved in adjusting to life in a new country and living as an expatriate. As a counsellor, she has worked with individual adults and young people on a broad range of issues including emotional breakdown, depression, anxiety and panic attacks, low self esteem, relationship and family breakdown, childhood and adult sexual abuse, grief and loss, as well as phobias, obsessive compulsive behaviour, anger and aggressive behaviour. As a mediator, she has worked with couples, families and neighbours in dispute.

Jessica is an integrative practitioner, drawing on person centred, existential, psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural concepts as relevant to the work. She is flexible in her approach and so does not focus on one theoretical model, but instead tries to understand the needs of the individual.

Appointment Hours:     Mondays & Wednesdays 9am to 1pm, & Thursdays 11am to 1pm.

MA (Psych), EMDRIA, OPQ (Not Accepting New Clients)

Psychologist

Geraldine holds a Master degree in Psychology from the Catholic University of Paris, France, and a certificate in Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) from the EMDR Institute, Inc., U.S.A. She is a member of the Order of Psychologists of Quebec, Canada, and a member of EMDRIA and EMDR Canada. 

Before working in mental health services for adults in France and Canada, Geraldine spent 2 years in the German-French school in Stuttgart, Germany as a Psychologist working primarily with families facing the challenges of expatriation. She has also worked in Palliative Care, helping patients suffering from cancer. Geraldine's main field of expertise is anxiety disorders. She is experienced in working with post traumatic stress disorder, abuse, natural disaster, anxiety, phobia, OCD, grief and losses, depression, stress management, anger management, clinical mental health concerns, parenting, communication skills in relationship, and coping with life's challenges.

Geraldine works mainly using EMDR. However, she was originally trained in psychodynamic approach and would be using techniques from the psychodynamic approach to analyse clients' defense mechanism, transference, dreams, etc. She also integrates other tools such as CBT in her practice. Geraldine is fluent in English, French, and German.

Appointment Hours: Mondays 9am to 12noon, Tuesdays 9am to 12noon, & Wednesdays 4pm to 7pm. (6pm & 7pm fully booked!)

MA (Systemic Psychotherapy), DipFT, BA (Hons), PGCE (Not Accepting New Clients)

Family Therapist

Julia has a Diploma in Systemic Practice with Families and Couples from the London Institute of Family Therapy and a Masters degree in Systemic Psychotherapy from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust/University of East London. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts honours degree from University College London, and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of London Institute of Education. Before moving to Singapore, Julia lived and worked in France and the former Yugoslavia as well as the United Kingdom.

Julia has wide experience as a teacher in multicultural schools. On retraining and qualifying as a Family Therapist, she worked within the UK National Health Service, in multi-disciplinary teams offering assessments for children and families. She has worked with families, couples and individuals seeking help with issues relating to adult, child and adolescent mental health, parenting, self-harming, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, relationship difficulties, family breakdown and separation, school refusal, and coping with life changes.

Julia works with people of all ages, and has particular expertise with children, young people and families. Her approach is tailored to the needs of the people who come to see her - talking and thinking together about the difficulties that lead people to seek help, and exploring how they affect individual family members.

Appointment Hours:     Wednesdays 4pm to 7pm (6pm & 7pm fully booked!)

BA (Hons), PCPsy, MA Counselling Candidate (Not Accepting New Clients)

Counsellor

Christina has a Postgraduate Certificate in Psychology from the University of Hong Kong and she is currently completing a Masters in Counselling at the Singapore campus of Monash University.

Christina was working in marketing and advertising, handling global blue chip clients. After much introspection, however, she has decided to abandon the corporate world and embark on a career as a counsellor. She has transitioned life as an expat child in Panama, an adolescent through to early adulthood in Korea and the UK, and an adult expat in Hong Kong and Singapore. This culturally-diverse upbringing has allowed her to be open and understanding of people from all walks of life.

Christina works with clients who are having difficulties with stress and anxiety levels, relationship problems, depression, anger management, career choices and various other challenges that life presents. Her personal area of interest lies with difficulties that can arise from the search for personal identity, especially in the context of mixed cultural influences.

Christina takes an open approach based on the person-centred and CBT theories through which she will try to accommodate the individuality of each person and his or her situation. She believes that we all go through challenging phases in life and that we can benefit from taking time out from our busy lives to talk to someone objective and non-judgemental to get a fresh perspective on a situation.

She is fluent in English, Korean, and Spanish.

Appointment Hours:Saturdays 9am to 12noon

MA (Psychology), BA (Human Development) (Not Accepting New Client)

Assistant Director / Counsellor

Glenn holds a Masters Degree in Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in Human Development from Saybrook Institute in San Francisco, California.  He is an accredited facilitator for the FOCCUS marriage preparation and enrichment programme.  He also has a certificate in Intermediate Training in Ericksonian Psychotherapy and Hypnosis from the Milton H. Erickson Foundation, and a certificate in Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) from the EMDR Institute, Inc.  Glenn is a full member of the Singapore Psychological Society.  He is American and has lived in Asia for the past 9 years.

Glenn’s thesis work in Vietnam was focused on victims of human trafficking for prostitution who were suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and he had explored various Western and alternative therapies that could help these victims, within the Asian context of psychotherapy.  For the past 6 years, he has counselled Expatriate individuals and families on a variety of issues, including but not limited to, anger management, anxiety, stress, alcohol abuse, marital conflicts, cross cultural marital conflicts, divorce, adolescents and their family, sexual abuse, aging, body image, self esteem, and grief.

Glenn takes an integrated approach, utilising techniques from Behavioural, CBT, Adlerian, Existential, and Person Centered therapies.  His counselling philosophy places more emphasis on the current issue and future of the individual, without minimizing the importance of the past influences.

Appointment Hours:     Tuesdays 10am to 5pm, Wednesdays 10am to 7pm, Thursdays 11am to 7pm, Fridays 12noon to 5pm, & Saturdays 10am to 1pm. (6pm & 7pm, and Saturdays fully booked!)

BA (Psych), MS (Mental Health Counseling) candidate (Not Accepting New Client)

Counsellor

Jesika holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Psychology from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas and she is currently completing a Masters in Mental Health Counseling from University of the Southwest in Hobbs, NM. She is Hispanic American and moved to Singapore in 2011.

Jesika’s previous employment experience in the legal system, social work and case management field and as a counseling intern has brought her experience in working with individuals and families in different areas and diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to, children/adolescent offenders and delinquency, children/adolescents and their families, individuals who have encountered physical, emotional and sexual abuse, drug and alcohol abuse/addiction and codependency. In addition, she has understanding with individuals dealing with stress and anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues, domestic violence, eating disorder and weight issues, those who have undergone weight loss surgery and the intellectually disabled. Her areas of interest are in marital and familial conflict. Jesika is bilingual in English and Spanish.

Appointment Hours: Thursdays 4pm to 7pm, Fridays 12noon & 1pm, & Saturdays 9am to 2pm

(Starting 14 Feb 2012)

Counsellor

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Appointment Hours:  Tuesdays 6pm & 7pm, Saturdays, 9am & 10am.