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About Me

👋🏻 Hi there! I’m Joanne Tan (she/her/hers)

Life can throw us unexpected curveballs, leaving us unprepared and feeling less than resilient. No one is born with all the tools to navigate tough times.

In my journey, I've met many people from diverse backgrounds, witnessing their struggles to live genuinely. The importance of an authentic life truly hit home with the passing of my beloved grandmother. Losing my pillar of support made me question how I could go on. I explored deeply and realized I needed to ground myself.

Supporting my emotions became essential for me to move forward and truly live. Along the way, I anchored myself to the acronym SELF — Support your Emotions to Live a Flourishing life — as a personal guide. Through self-exploration and discovery, I learned to navigate my own challenges, even when the journey felt overwhelming. I understand how easy it is to feel lost without support, because I've been there too.

Over time, I grew, healed, and transformed. That evolution led me to where I am today: a psychotherapist, counsellor, and dedicated mental health professional, here to walk alongside others on their path to healing.

Professional Registration:

🔖 Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC)

🔖 International Council of Integrative Psychotherapists (NCIP UK)

📝 Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

📝 Clinical Trauma For Individuals

📝 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

📝 Defining Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity Therapy

📝 Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

📝 Family Systems Therapy

📝 Gottman Method Couple Therapy (Level 1 & 2)

📝 Mindfulness

📝 Person-Centered Therapy (PCT)

📝 Reality Therapy

📝 Schema Therapy

📝 Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

📝 Somatic EMDR Therapy

📋 Anxiety

📋 Anger Management

📋 Addiction

📋 ADHD/Autism Spectrum Disorder

📋 Burn Out

📋 Career & Executive Coaching/ Career & Work Challenges

📋 Depression

📋 Development/Environmental Issues

📋 Family & Domestic Issues

📋 Grief Counselling

📋 LGBTQ+

📋 Relationship/Marriage Challenges

📋 Life Transitions/ Life Challenges / Life Coaching

📋 Mood Swings/ Panic Attacks

📋 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

📋 Parenting/ School

📋 Self-esteem/ Self-confidence

📋 Trauma

📓 Master of Arts in Integrative Counselling (Distinction)

📓 Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling Psychology

📓 Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy & Counselling

📓 Graduate Diploma in Marketing Communications

📓 Bachelor of Commerce

📜 CBT & SFBT Practitioner

📜 Defining Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity Therapy Certification

📜 Somatic EMDR Therapy Certification

📜 Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist (Individual)

📜 Level 1 & 2 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy

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