Therapies

CLINICAL THERAPY INTERVENTIONS

We see the central task of psychotherapy as the rewriting of a more complex and useful narrative of the patient’s life and experience.

Richard F. Summers
In my current clinical practice, I receive a number of assessment requests from child & adolescent & adult psychiatrists, pediatricians, general practitioners, schools, NDIS service users and parents. My expertise of offering practical advice for managing a client’s psychological difficulties as well as supporting multiagency case management is highly valued by my clients and referrers.

1. Child & Adolescent Therapy

My extensive clinical experience of offering therapy to Children & Adolescents with complex conditions is reflected all through my clinical caseload in Singapore. I often receive complex cases that have had little or no progress in other routine therapeutic contacts. My therapy cases include complex adolescent patients with self-harm, suicidal behaviours, sexually deviant behaviours, conduct problems, and emerging personality problems. I also offer psychotherapy to adolescents with complex trauma due to physical and sexual abuse, with significant dissociation and PTSD symptoms. Some of young people present with dual diagnosis of mental health problems and special needs, e.g. Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Asperger’s Syndrome and ADHD which poses a challenge of modifying and adapting CBT (and other behavioural) techniques to their advantage.

I also offer therapy to children and young people age 4-18 presenting with emotional and behavioural problems, such as anxiety, phobia, depression, OCD, elimination disorders (enuresis encopresis), habit disorders, attachment disorders, binge eating disorders, conduct problems, ASD, ADHD, school refusal, and victims of physical, sexual & emotional abuse.

2. Parent Training & Family Interventions

I am trained and experienced in parenting skills training in both individual and group formats. With a thorough grounding in systemic and attachment developmental models, I routinely pay attention to the family interventions and psychoeducation of parents.

3. Adults’ Individual Psychotherapy

In addition to my primary clinical work with children & families, I see ADULT clients for personality assessment and individual therapy.
I am trained and experienced in the following therapeutic modalities-

  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
  • Systemic Family Therapy
  • Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
  • EMDR- Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing in Trauma
  • Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT)

4. Gottman Couples Therapy

I am a trained Level 3 certified Gottman Couples Therapist.

The Gottman Method for Healthy Relationships is a form of couples-based therapy and education that draws on the pioneering studies of relationships by psychologist John M. Gottman and clinical practice conducted by John Gottman and his wife, psychologist Julie Gottman. Nearly 40 years of research have led John Gottman to identify the elements it takes for relationships to last—among all types of couples across all phases of life.

There are nine components of what the Gottman call The Sound Relationship House, from partners making mental maps of each other’s world to learning how to break through relationship gridlock. One of the reigning insights of the science-based approach is that in the dynamics of relationship systems, negative emotions like defensiveness and contempt have more power to hurt a relationship than positive emotions have to help a relationship. As a result, the structured therapy focuses on developing understanding and skills so that partners can maintain fondness and admiration, turn toward each other to get their needs met (especially when they are hurting), manage conflict, and enact their dreams—and what to do when they mess up (because everyone does).

Gottman Method Couples’ Therapy combines the knowledge and wisdom of almost four decades of research and clinical practice by the Gottman Institute

Through interventions and exercises, the Gottman Method helps you and your partner break through barriers to achieve greater understanding, connection and intimacy in your relationship. Gottman Method Couples’ Therapy is a structured, goal-oriented, scientifically based therapy.

Gottman Method Couples’ Therapy was developed to help you and your partner to:
  • Increase respect, affection and closeness
  • Break through and resolve conflict when you feel stuck
  • Generate greater understanding
  • Keep conflict discussions calm and respectful.
This evidenced based approach to couples counselling has 3 phases. The first phase is assessment, before we can successfully help you repair, rebuild or rejuvenate your relationship we first have to understand how it got there. You will attend both together for your first appointment where we will explore why you have come to couples therapy now, taking a history of your relationship to establish how it has developed over time. Then you both will complete a very thorough online assessment and once that is done I will see you each for one individual session each so we can understand your own unique history and perspective. From then on every session will be a couple session.

Couple Counselling can be managed through face to face clinic sessions or via online videoconferencing.
l1
l2
l3
l4
l5
Previous
Next

Site map

Services

Contact Info