Individual Counselling and Psychotherapy
Singapore
Individual Counselling and PsychoTherapy
Life’s challenges can sometimes feel overwhelming — whether it’s the weight of anxiety, the fog of depression, the stress of daily demands, or the lingering effects of past trauma.
Individual therapy offers a safe and confidential space for you to pause, reflect, and begin healing at your own pace.
At Sylvia Tan Psychology Consultancy, we provide therapy for teens and adults, helping them manage emotional difficulties, build resilience, and reconnect with their sense of calm and confidence.
Issues we work with
For Adults
We provide therapy and emotional support for adults experiencing:
Anxiety, stress, and burnout
Depression and loss of motivation
Trauma and post-traumatic stress
Relationship or marital difficulties
Life transitions (divorce, relocation, career change)
Grief and loss
Self-esteem and identity issues
Emotional regulation and boundary-setting challenges
For Teens
Adolescence can be an emotionally complex time. We offer counselling for teens who may be struggling with:
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Anxiety, worry, or school-related stress
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Low mood or withdrawal
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Peer pressure, bullying, or social difficulties
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Parental separation or family conflict
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Low self-esteem or body image concerns
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Emotional regulation and coping skills
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Identity and self-discovery issues
What you can expect
Therapy is a process of self-understanding and transformation.
You will learn to:
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Gain insight into emotional and behavioural patterns
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Build emotional resilience and healthy coping skills
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Develop greater self-compassion and clarity
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Strengthen your relationships and sense of self
Types of therapy approaches we use
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a type of counselling that focuses on changing dysfunctional behaviors, thoughts, and emotions. It is based on the idea that your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors all affect one another.
CBT is a collaborative therapy where our therapist works with you in a one-on-one session to identify unhelpful patterns of behavior or thought processes and find solutions. It is an evidenced based therapy for treatment of depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, eating disorder.
Schema therapy seeks to identify unhelpful patterns of thinking and replaces those unhelpful thought patterns (schemas) with more adaptive and healthy ones. Schema therapy integrates elements of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), psychoanalysis, Gestalt therapy and related approaches in its intervention approach.
Unhealthy or maladaptive patterns of thinking, negative beliefs about oneself are said to form in early childhood, particularly for those who have grown up in emotionally and physically neglectful households, or in households where parents were overly indulgent, and did not set proper boundaries.
Developed schemas developed during childhood are carried forward into adulthood, which can become limiting and maladaptive thoughts and behaviours in the person’s adult life, affecting their relationship and their emotional wellbeing.
Schema Therapy is found to be particularly useful for treating individuals with personality disorders, anxiety disorders and trauma related disorders like Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorders ( C-PTSD)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidenced based approach which believes that healing of self comes with identifying and understanding the multiple sub-personalities or families within each person’s mental system.
These sub-personalities are said to be play different functions in self preservation which can result in maladaptive behaviours for the person, affecting their overall wellbeing or affecting their relationships with others.
There are parts of self that are wounded and hold painful emotions such as anger and shame, and parts that try to control and protect the person from the pain of the wounded parts.
The sub-personalities are often in conflict with each other and with one’s core Self, a concept that describes the confident, compassionate, whole person that is at the core of every individual. IFS aims to heal the wounded parts and restore mental balance and harmony by changing the dynamics that create discord among the sub-personalities and the Self.
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Panic
- Phobias
- Trauma
- Substance use
- Physical health conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis
- General functioning and well-being
Somatic Experiencing (SE™) is a body-oriented therapeutic model specifically used for healing trauma and other stress disorders. The SE approach focuses on releasing trauma stored in the body and it is done by the SE therapist integrating body movements to help with the release of trauma and facilitate healing for person.
SE is said to be a bottom up approach in treating trauma. It is particularly useful for individuals who are in an emotionally “frozen” state.
SE is helpful in treatment of:
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Stress disorders
- Chronic pain
- Anxiety Disorders
- Depression