About Us
Dr SWANIE KHOO
Dr SWANIE KHOO
Dr SWANIE KHOO
MARRIAGE AND RELATIONSHIP COUNSELLOR | PSYCHOTHERAPIST
ELLEN FONG
Dr SWANIE KHOO
Dr SWANIE KHOO
YOUTH, FAMILIES AND COUPLES COUNSELLOR
SOH HIANG TAN
Dr SWANIE KHOO
SOH HIANG TAN
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELLOR
OUR TRAINERS
DR WILLIAM KIRWAN
CLINICAL DIRECTOR, & TRAINER,
THE PSYCHODYNAMIC CENTER, ASIA
Dr Swanie Khoo
FOUNDER | PRINCIPAL PSYCHOTHERAPIST | MARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELLOR | RELATIONSHIP THERAPIST
- Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Counselling)
- Master of Arts in Counselling
- Certified in Trauma-focussed Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Completed Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- Completed Level 1 and 2 Gottman Method Couples' Therapy
- Completed training in Emotion Focused Couples' Therapy
- Certified in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
- Completed training in Theraplay Level 1 and 2
- Registered Member of Association of Psychotherapists and Counsellors (Singapore) - Level 3: Certified Master Practioner
Dr Swanie Khoo, who prefers to be known professionally as Dr Swan, holds a PhD in Clinical Counselling and a Master of Arts in Counselling. She is a Marriage and Family Counsellor and a Trauma Therapist with the Singapore Trauma Network for Children (KKH).
Dr Swan is an experienced psychotherapist who has spent many years working with individuals, couples, parents, and families. Through her extensive clinical work, she has journeyed with clients facing a wide range of psychological and relational challenges, including trauma, personality difficulties, and complex relational struggles.
Her therapeutic approach is deeply relational and psychodynamically informed, helping clients gain insight into the deeper patterns that shape their emotions, relationships, and sense of self. Dr Swan is committed to creating a thoughtful and compassionate therapeutic space where individuals and families can find healing, restore connection, and move toward greater emotional well-being.
She is also an accredited facilitator for Prepare/Enrich Marriage Program, and accredited trainer/facilitator for Parenting with Confidence workshops. In addition to the professional work, she volunteers with OvertheRainbow.org and Focus on the Family Singapore, as a workshop trainer/facilitator, promoting mental health wellness for youth and family life.
The therapeutic journey with couples and individuals will be based on an integration of scientifically grounded psychodynamic psychotherapy, Gottman Method Couples’ Therapy (trained in Level 1 & 2) and emotion-focused interventions (completed training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy). She has a wide-spectrum of experience working with couples, parents and children, and individuals across a range of mental health, interpersonal and behavioural issues.
Couples Therapy Work
Her experience is culminated through years of counselling practice – mainly working with couples, parents and children, and individuals, . She helps couples work through their conflicts by understanding their negative interaction cycle, and by breaking down their barriers in communication. She helps couples address unmet needs and underlying emotions and to interact in more loving, responsive and more emotionally connected ways which results in a more enduring and secured relationship.
Parent and Child Therapy Work
In her work with parents and children, she uses play therapy to observe and gain insights into a child’s problems. She would then help the child to explore emotions and deal with unresolved trauma. Through play, children can learn new coping mechanisms and how to redirect inappropriate behaviours. She would require parents' involvement in the child's therapy journey, as it is a journey together with parents to help them through their difficulties with their children. This help parents improve relationships with their children and gives them tools and skills in the parenting journey.
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy with clients has been her pinnacle work with her clientele -specialising in working through unresolved past trauma, childhood trauma, abusive relationships, and a wide range of mental health difficulties like anxiety, depression, ADHD, bipolar and personality disorders.
Dr Swan's experience was built through years of working in private practice in Singapore, and serving various NGOs – volunteering in various Girls’ Home in Singapore, Focus on the Family and Over the Rainbow. The crux of her work focused on rebuilding family relationships, strengthening bonds, and helping individuals heal through attachment psychotherapy and psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Dr Swan is Malaysian chinese who has made Singapore her home for over 25 years, raising four children along the way. Before settling in Singapore, she also lived in the US and Australia. Dr Swan is deeply passionate about supporting couples, individuals, parents, and children—bringing hope and healing to those struggling in their relationships, and empowering them toward greater purpose, meaning, and wholeness.
ELLEN FONG
Lead COUNSELLOR AND PSYCHOTHERAPIST | MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELLOR
- Bringing extensive experience in working with couples, families, and youth across hospital settings, social services, tertiary institutions, and private practice.
- Doctor of Counselling, Keele University (ongoing)
- Master of Arts in Counselling, Singapore Bible College, Singapore
- Master of Health and Human Services, The University of Melbourne, Australia
- Graduate Certificate in Clinical Supervision, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- Registered Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor, Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC)
- Registered Counsellor, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP (MBACP)
- Certified Prepare/Enrich Facilitator
- Full Member of EMDR International Association
Ellen provides trauma-informed counselling and emotional support to individuals, couples, and families in a safe and non-judgemental space. With her prior counselling experiences in the university, community and healthcare settings, her outreach encompasses a range of areas that include concerns in adjustments, marital, parenting, caregiving, and mental health. She has been on national radio and has conducted talks and workshops both locally and overseas to raise greater awareness in mental health, particularly amongst the youths. She has supervised and guided social workers, case workers and counsellors in the social service sector. She is also teaching students in postgraduate counselling programmes at a tertiary institution.
Ellen has been journeying with clients of various ages when they face interpersonal relationship issues, stress, depression, anxiety, grief, traumatic or difficult childhood experiences. She integrates her approach by drawing from experiences and knowledge from her trainings in attachment-focused Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Gottman Method Couples’ Therapy (Levels 1 & 2), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), and Narrative Therapy.
Ellen has worked extensively with students from international schools and universities, often supporting those experiencing adjustment challenges. She helps them ease into new environments and relationships while deepening their self-awareness. In addition, Ellen has supported individuals struggling with communication difficulties with parents and caregivers, and has worked with students facing mental health concerns such as depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.
Before making her career change to counselling and psychotherapy in 2013, Ellen had worked in the information technology sector within the government and financial industries. These experiences have allowed her to understand and empathise with issues regarding work dynamics, work-life balance, goal setting and other corporate challenges. Her warmth and compassion, together with her eagerness in continual learning to improve her therapeutic skills, enable individuals and couples to be more self-aware, emotionally resilient and have a meaningful relationship with others.
Personal Approach
Ellen aims to pace along with clients through their ups and downs in life. She has a passion to work with youths and couples, encouraging them to be gentle with themselves while also cheering them on with their steps of self-awareness, growth and achievement.
She uses her integrated experiences and resources to provide support for families and youths going through crises, mental health stressors, emotional or attachment trauma. She believes in the bio-psycho-social-spiritual model for the care of her clients. In turn, she hopes to leave them feeling empowered and resilient in embracing their life experiences.
Soh Hiang Tan
Lead THERAPIST | MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELLOR
- Over 18 years experience working with couples and individuals in counselling and training
- Master of Science in Psychology, University of Madras (India)
- Graduate Diploma in Theology, Discipleship Training Centre (Singapore)
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia)
- Completed training in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy
- Emotion-Focused Therapy (Level 4)
- Certified Facilitator & Seminar Director for Prepare/Enrich
- Certified Facilitator for Torn Asunder (Affair Recovery Program)
- Certified in Choice Theory and Reality Therapy
- Gottman Couple Therapy (Level 2)
- Certified DISC Profiling Practitioner
- Journey to Intimacy (Level 2, in Mandarin)
- Registered Clinical Supervisor, Singapore Association for Counselling
- Registered Counsellor, Singapore Association for Counselling
- Clinical Member, Malaysian Marriage and Family Therapy
- Member, Association of Christian Counsellors (South Asia)
Challenges in life are inevitable. Having a compassionate and experienced professional walk alongside you through pain and hurt can make all the difference—it is both empowering and healing. Inspired by her personal journey, a deep curiosity about human behaviour, and encouragement from friends, Soh Hiang embarked on her path to becoming a Counsellor.
With over 20 years of experience, Soh Hiang has worked extensively with young adults and couples, supporting them through personal life challenges and relational conflicts. She holds a Master of Science in Psychology and is trained in multiple therapeutic modalities, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Choice Theory and Reality Therapy, and Gottman Couples Therapy (Levels 1 and 2). Additionally, she has completed Levels 1 to 4 of Emotion Focused Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, and has been exposed to Gestalt and Systemic approaches. Believing in the integrated nature of human beings, she adopts an integrative approach in her practice.
Specialising in marriage and relationship counselling, Soh Hiang offers services in marriage preparation, enrichment, mentoring, and recovery from marital infidelity. As a certified facilitator and seminar director for Prepare/Enrich—a well-regarded relationship assessment and counselling tool—she has supported many couples in strengthening their relationships. She also played a key role in developing a marriage mentoring programme. In addressing infidelity recovery, she is trained in the Torn Asunder programme and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy specific to extramarital affairs.
Soh Hiang’s background includes experience as a work-life consultant and wellness coach for multinational corporations. Her years living and working in India and China have equipped her with a deep sensitivity to cultural transitions and an ability to connect across diverse cultural backgrounds. In addition to counselling, she had frequently conducted talks and workshops on youth, marriage and family, parenting, relationships, and other psycho-social topics.
Her passion for counselling drives her to be a lifelong learner, constantly deepening her self-awareness and refining her ability to connect meaningfully with clients. Her goal is to empower individuals and couples to understand and navigate their relationships more effectively.
Soh Hiang is married for 36 years cross-culturally. She is a proud mother of two grown daughters and grandmother to two grandchildren.