Meet your fellow travellers...
At Hearth, we adopt an integrative and holistic approach to understand and work with the issues and situations you present with.
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Nonetheless, we understand that you may still find comfort in having more information about the training and background of our therapists. Please find below Bio information of our therapists.
Everyone has one of those moments where they feel lost or alone in their emotional journey or simply find it difficult to confide in their existing support system.
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Our Team aspires to be the compassionate fellow travellers to walk with individuals in their journeys of exploration, discovery and healing.
Her draw to nature...
"Nature has been my teacher, my companion,
my holding space
Nature is wise, giving and does not discriminate
Nature has its own pace and time and
cannot be rushed
Nature embraces ALL of us
Nature does not keep count, and even in its destruction, it brings upon renewal
Nature reminds me to follow the rhythm of life
And the important of Trusting…"
Professional Experience
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Soak Mun is a registered clinical psychologist in both Singapore and Australia and has worked in varied roles as a clinical psychologist and clinical supervisor in private, government and community settings for more than 15 years. She also had a 1-year stint as a Mental Health Officer with Medicines Sans Frontiers, working with flood survivors and HIV+/resistant TB patients in remote parts of India.
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As an integrative therapist, she also incorporates various therapeutic approaches (including CBT, EMDR, TIST, Mindfulness, Internal Family Systems concepts, Schema therapy, trauma-informed and attachment-based practices) and operates from a strength-based, person-centred approach.
Language
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Fluent in spoken and written English
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Fluent in spoken Mandarin and basic proficiency level in written Mandarin
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Qualification
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Masters of Psychology (Clinical) – James Cook University, Singapore
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Bachelor of Psychology (Hons) - Murdoch University, Australia
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Bachelor of Accountancy (Hons)- NTU
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Certificate as an Ecotherapist, Facilitator of Reconnection with Nature (International Training in Applied Ecopsychology endorsed by International Ecopsychology Society, IES)
Her professional interests
Passion in Supporting Helping professionals
In recent years, Soak Mun has also taken special interests in supporting helping professionals with their own personal growth or in providing clinical supervision to fellow therapists.
She believes strongly in capacity building within the mental health field and thus, offered sliding scale rates to helpers within the community, so that they can continue with the good work they do in the community.
Having had the privilege of working with counsellors and art therapists in her last clinical supervision role, Soak Mun is also keenly interested in working with process aspect of supervisees’ therapeutic work within the clinical supervision space.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Moving into Nature...
Recently, Soak Mun rekindled her love and passion for nature and started bringing therapy outdoors. She has found this recent shift immensely inspiring and healing for both her clients and herself. With the launch of ecotherapy practice, Soak Mun hopes to eventually support children, youths and adults in Residential or Rehabilitation settings in Singapore, using ecotherapy as a way to support long term change.
Other than the typical mental health conditions (e.g., depression, anxiety) and life transition issues, Soak Mun is passionate about working with adults who has complex PTSD or experienced developmental trauma in their lives. She hopes that such work may contribute to the reduction of intergenerational trauma between generations.
She is also conversant in working with people who identified themselves with traits of personality disorders or on the dissociative disorder continuum and works from a relational and attachment-based lens.
