EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST (May 2015 till present)
TEAM LEADER
• Department Child Protection (March 2013 to May 2013)
SENIOR CASE WORKER (June 2009 – 2014)
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST (Jan 2007 till Dec 2008)
TEACHING
• Tutor, Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia (2001-2002)
• Mathematics teacher, St Margaret’s Girls’ Secondary School, 2000-2001 (March) Ministry of Education, Singapore (Dec) (Mar)
• School teacher, Mee Toh School, Ministry of Education, Singapore 1992-1997
Acupuncturist and Chinese Physician, Singapore (1993-1997)
EDUCATION
Murdoch University
• 2015 Master Applied Psychology (Clinical)
Thesis: The Effect of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy on Individuals with Cancer and their Carers
The University of Western Australia
• 2004 Ph.D.
Thesis: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder with and without Conduct disorder in Male Adolescents: The Fledgling Psychopath Hypothesis
• 2000 B.Ed. (First Class Honours)
Thesis: Objectivity Profiles of ADHD Boys and their Mothers after viewing Caricatured ADHD Behaviour
• 1999 B.A. (Double Major in Psychology)
National Institute of Education, Singapore
• 1992 Diploma in Education
Chung Hwa Traditional Chinese Medicine Free Clinic, Singapore
• 1993 Diploma in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture
• 1995 Master (preparatory) in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University, China
ACADEMIC AWARDS & HONOURS
• 2005 Awarded American Psychological Society travel award for one of the best poster submission.
• 2002-2004 Awarded University Postgraduate Research Scholarship for
research programme
• 2001 Awarded the International Postgraduate Research Scholarship,
which is one of the twelve scholarships the university offers each year
on a purely academic basis.
• 2000 Awarded the Cecil Andrews Prize in Education, which is presented
to the student who, in the opinion of the Board of Examiners in
Education, is the most outstanding student completing the
requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Education with Honours.
• 1999 Awarded Frank Gamblen Scholarship to assist with travel costs
associated with an exchange programme of overseas research.
• 1998-1999 Represented the University of Western Australia for an exchange
programme at the University of California, Los Angeles.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• Suicide prevention gatekeeper two-day workshop
• Autistic training two-day workshop
• Senior First Aid
• Critical Incident Emergency Management two-day workshop
• Solution Focused Brief Therapy (Centrecare)
• Motivational Interviewing
• Various workshops attended at Centre for Intervention
• Understanding and Applying Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Centre for Clinical Intervention, CCI)
• Working with low self esteem (CCI)
• Applying assertiveness in communication (CCI)
• Worrying and Rumination (CCI)
• ACT workshop (Murdoch University)
• Working with Borderline personality disorder (on 20th March 2015 by TATRA- 7 CPDs)
• Healing the Angry Brain: Changing the Brain & Behaviours of Angry, Aggressive, Raging & Domestically Violent Clients ( on 8th May 2015 by TATRA- 7 CPD pts)
• Telephone CBT (on 4 June 2015 by APS – 8 CPD))
• Suicide Prevention Professional developing training (on 4th June 2015 by APS- 8 CPDs)
• EMDR (Basic and Advanced) by Graham Taylor (Nov 2015; Feb 2016)
• CRM (Comprehensive Resource Model) (2016)
• Working with Older Adults (May 2016)
Clinical Hypnosis with Michael Yapko