Qualifications & Experience
Advanced Course on Multigenerational Family Therapy with Prof. Maurizio Andolfi
December 2024
I help families trace intergenerational experiences that impact the dynamics of present family difficulties. With this awareness, families are encouraged to accept the past and then to use more helpful ways to relate to each other.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Skills Training Workshop, Monash University.
May 2020
Treatment includes skills training in cognitive behaviour, mindfulness meditation and behavioural interventions.
Visiting Counsellor at D'Home,
Mental Health Association, Penang
2019 - Present
Counselling clients who experience grief, family conflicts, divorce, depression, anxieties and workplace stresses.
School Counsellor at Kolej Tuanku Ja'afar, Mantin, Negeri Sembilan
2017 - 2018
Helped new students adapt to the school by conducting orientation talks and therapeutic play. Counselled students with exam stress, parental expectations, feelings of anxiety, depression, isolation and homesickness, suicidal tendencies, eating disorders.
Counsellor at Clinical School, International Medical University
2017
Counselled students with eating disorders, problems in romantic relationships, friendship issues, problems with family expectations, sexual identity and more. Gave talks on dealing with disappointments and grief.
Counsellor,
Seremban Gospel Chapel
2016 - 2017
Counselled clients on Career Guidance, Family Therapy and ran workshops on Grief Recovery Programmes for groups and one-on-one sessions.
Graduate Certificate of
Family Therapy
(The Delta Clinic, Australia)
September 2018
An individual cannot be put in a box but the myriad connections and disconnections that exist within the family of origin play a significant role in the drama that unfolds in life. My job is to unravel the mysteries and offer hope in the confusion.
Certificate of Choice Theory /
Reality Therapy
(William Glasser Institute, USA)
August 2013
I use this orientation to help many clients to come out of a tight spot that they feel they are trapped in and discuss with them the viable choices available to them.
Masters in Counselling
(Help University, Malaysia)
2011 - 2014
This course opened a whole new dimension to how I view myself, my struggles, my family and effectively equipped me to extend help to others so that they, in turn understand themselves better.
Grief Recovery Specialist
(Grief Recovery Institute, USA)
August 2014
Having undergone this programme myself through my own personal losses, I have been able not only to empathise with my clients but also have led many to full recovery over ten years of my work with clients who suffer many types of losses.
Committee Member of the
National Association of
Christian Counsellors, Malaysia
2011
Helped organise the first Christian Counselling Conference of the NACC as one of the founding members.
