Psych Connect

Dr. Kang is a Clinical Psychologist by training and has more than 14 years of experience in treating mental and physical health issues for clients in hospitals, private practice, educational and corporate settings. Dr. Kang has always been committed to developing innovative therapeutic programs and leading mental health professionals and had led multi-disciplinary and specialist psychology health teams in the private practice sector in Singapore.

Dr. Kang is trained in the use of a wide range of psychotherapeutic interventions: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Schema Therapy, Sand Tray and Symbol Play Therapy, Triple P Parenting and Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT).

Dr. Kang has a specialized interest and, extensive clinical experience working with children, adolescents and their families in addition to young adults suffering from: 

Mood disorders (e.g. depression and anxiety) 

Managing stress & anger

Grief & loss

Trauma

Adjustment issues

Self-harm

Sleep problems

Behavioural problems

Self-esteem issues

Parenting difficulties

Tics & Tourette Syndrome and,

Social difficulties.

She has also obtained specialised training in treating clients with:

Somatic complaints relating to somatization disorder, irritable bowel syndrome and other functional gastrointestinal disorders and,

Helping women with emotional and relational difficulties arising from pre and post-natal complications and issues.

Moreover, Dr. Kang has received specialized training in conducting diagnostic psychological evaluations. Adopting a non-judgemental, holistic approach in her evaluation and intervention, Dr. Kang has also been working closely with the international schools in Singapore and the surrounding region, as well as schools under the purview of the Ministry of Education, Singapore.

Dr. Kang is also regularly invited to be a panellist and, speak at conferences and events on topics such as mental health and emotional wellbeing of children and adolescents, developing growth-oriented mindsets in young people and, supporting individuals from multi-cultural backgrounds. She was a panellist at the Special Education Network In Asia: Singapore (SENIAS) conference.

Having lived and worked in several countries, Dr. Kang is familiar with difficulties relating to expatriation and is sensitive to cultural adjustment issues. She has offered support to clients from both local and expatriate populations. Dr. Kang is a firm believer that every individual is unique and has strengths which need to be acknowledged and, cultivated in therapeutic intervention. This philosophy is reflected in the careful tailoring of therapy to fit each individual need. She strongly believes that each individual has the potential to lead a happy and fulfilling life.

Hemma is a Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist with over 10 years experience working with children aged 0-19 years.

Hemma is from the UK where she graduated and worked for 7 years before moving to Singapore. She has experience in working with children with a range of needs including language delays and disorders, speech delays and disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorders in private clinics, mainstream schools and special education needs schools. 

She believes in working in a collaborate and holistic manner with parents, schools and other professionals in order to provide the best support possible to ensure speech and language skills are generalised. She incorporates a child’s motivations within therapy sessions to engage and target speech and language skills.

Hemma is passionate about training and has been trained in Hanen - More Than Words, PECS, Intensive Interaction and Makaton - Foundation Certificate. Hemma is also Elklan trained and is able to provide accredited training to education settings and parents on implementing speech and language strategies in the classroom and at home.  

Educational Qualifications: 

Bachelor of Science (Hon), Speech and Language Therapy, UK

Professional Registration:

Fully Registered Allied Health Professions Council (AHPC), Singapore

Fully Registered Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), UK

Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy (RCSLT), UK

AHPC Registered Supervisor

Mira’s therapeutic framework is informed by integrated theoretical models, which includes but not limited to Freudian psychoanalytic psychodynamics, Jungian analytical psychology, Gestalt theories, Humanistic psychology, Person-centered therapy, Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory, Piagetian theory of cognitive development and Mindfulness-based art therapy.

Mira guides her clients through a creative and transformative journey of art making as a form of psychotherapy, where their unconscious core-conflicts are identified and resolved through visual imageries, symbols and explorations of various art media. Giving forms, shapes and colours to inexplicably difficult feelings and emotional pains through a therapeutic medium of art therapy elevates human spirits as it allows one to see and feel what is suppressed and obscured otherwise.

Mira provides therapy in Korean and English. She is able to support children and adolescents in the following areas:

Adoption 

Anger management

Anxiety / Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Attachment issues

Behavioural issues

Bullying

Childhood depression

Chronic illness / Palliative care

Downs Syndrome

Eating disorders

Gender identity

Grief and loss

Low self-esteem

Issues related to parental separation or divorce

Physical challenges (such as a loss of mobility, paralysis, Cerebral Palsy, Spina Bifida)

School stress

Selective mutism

Social skills

Special needs and Learning Difficulties such as: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Social Communicatio (AS), Attention Deficit Disorder & Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD), Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, sensory issues and speech challenges

Transitions (e.g. moving to a new school, or country)

Trauma

Mira ensures her clients to encounter art therapy as a safe and constructive therapeutic experience, where they can let go of their guards, and unlock their creative minds to regenerate their inner resilience and psychological vitality. Through creative modality of visual arts, Mira assists her clients, with or without previous artistic experiences, to immerse in the process of art making, in a non-judgemental therapeutic environment, and to observe challenges of their lives from different perspectives.

Educational Qualifications:

Master of Arts (Art Psychotherapy), UK

Master of Arts (Special Education), USA

Master of Arts (Linguistics), Singapore

Bachelor of Arts (Hons) (English Language & Literature), Korea

Academic Appointments & Professional Training:

Master’s Student Dissertation Research Advisor: LASALLE College of the Art

Professional Registration: 

Registered with the Australia New Zealand Art Therapy Association

California Teaching Credential: English, Mild/Moderate Special Education and, Moderate/Severe Special Education

Paran is a Specialist Chartered Pediatric Forensic Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS). He is also an Associate Fellow with BPS. He is a doctoral candidate with Middlesex University. He is primarily trained within the UK system.

Paran has led specialist psychology teams in the community sector in Singapore. Currently, he also serves as part of the management of a social service organization which provides early intervention, special education, rehabilitation services, day activity centre programmes, vocational training and gainful employment to individuals with special needs in Singapore.

He works with children and adolescents with various clinical functional and organic psychopathology and forensic issues. In particular, he provides clinical and forensic psycho diagnostic assessments, risk assessments, treatment and psychotherapy. He consults children and adolescents with aggression, ADHD, intrusive sexual behaviours, complex trauma, attachment disorders and child custodial evaluation/abuse. He has undergone specialist training in the diagnosis of psychopathy(adolescents), ASD, ADHD and Executive Functioning.

He is trained in Life Minus Violence Enhanced (LMV-E) © (Ireland et al, 2009) which is a cognitive behavioural therapeutic package designed to reduce risk of aggression and R&R which is a neuro- cognitive package in the rehabilitation of ADHD. It integrates recent research on neuro developmental factors with knowledge on the social environmental factors, experiential factors, and cognitive/emotional factors that are known to be associated with antisocial behaviours. He has received specialist training in delivering CBT for children and adolescents from Becks Institute; Schema Therapy for Child and Adolescents as well as EMDR for children and adolescents.

Paran recently got his sub specialty qualification in Child and Family Forensics from Boston.

Educational Qualifications:

Doctor of Psychology & Psychotherapy, UK (Candidate)

Sub Specialty Training Child and Family Forensics, USA

Cert in Aggression, Assessment and Therapy (UK)

Master of Applied Forensic Psychology (UK)

BA Psychology (USA)

Academic Appointments & Professional Training:

Clinical Supervisor for NUS & NIE Department of Psychology Placement Students

She has previously worked with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Down Syndrome, Intellectual Disabilities, Selective Mutism and other developmental disorders, in private clinics, special education schools and mainstream schools. Her experience with the children is not limited to the local setting, having interacted with them in cultural settings ranging from Hangzhou, China to London, UK. In addition, she has received training in social skills therapy, Applied Behavioral Analysis and PECS, as well as attained a Level II certification in Autism Movement Therapy.