CLINICAL SUPERVISION
For Counsellors/Therapists
A professional supervision session specifically for counselling practitioners, graduates, psychotherapists, and provisional members (SAC, SAP, AHPC, and SPS) who are required to log supervisory hours leading to their RC (Registered Counsellor) credentials in Singapore.
This 2-HOUR clinical supervision session is specially designed as an Integrated Supervision and Education (ISE) group session.
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Why attend Clinical Supervision?
Cultivate Reflective Practice
Supervision cultivates a practitioner's reflective discipline for their own cases as well as others. This stimulates self-awareness, enhances analytical faculties, surfaces biases, helps maintain professional boundaries, and prevents countertransference or enmeshment with clients.
Continual Skills Development
Supervision is the best way to grow your skills beyond your formal training! It facilitates continuous education and promotes skills-building during case presentations and discussions of therapeutic techniques. It also provides a platform for exploring innovative interventions & cross-disciplinary strategies.
Diverse Perspectives
Group supervision provides practitioners with insights from multiple viewpoints. The different theoretical orientations and clinical experiences can broaden the practitioner's understanding and enrich their therapeutic approaches.
Peer Support & Community
Supervision fosters a sense of community, validation, emotional & peer support among practitioners. It provides a space for sharing challenges, successes, and learning from one another's experiences. This reduces feelings of isolation, and also leads to networking opportunities & collaborations.
Accountability & Professional Growth
Regular participation in supervision creates a sense of accountability, as practitioners commit to actively engage and be open in the sessions. This commitment can promote continuous learning, professional growth, and adherence to ethical and best practice standards.
Our Master Clinical Supervisor
Ong Chooi Seng
Master of Arts (Counselling), Trauma Therapist / Family Life Specialist, Registered Clinical Supervisor
Chooi Seng has over 30 years of clinical practice in care and counseling since the 1990s. He is a registered Clinical Supervisor and an accredited Therapist with the Singapore Association of Counselors (SAC).
Trauma Work
Chooi Seng is a specialist in Trauma and Grief therapy. He helps clients resolve painful past memories, emotional wounds and traumatic life events.
Chooi Seng is a certified advance-level facilitator for Trauma Healing Institute (USA) and has trained many local and overseas facilitators and practitioners in the areas of trauma healing.
In 2005, just after the Asian Tsunami, he was selected to be trained by the Israeli team (Dr Ofra Ayalon, Nira Shiran-Mizrald & Dr Gillat Raisch) on Treating Trauma and Loss. This exclusive training was hosted by the Prince of Songkla University, in Phuket (Thailand).
In 2008, Chooi Seng underwent the YCDI (You Can Do It!) Train-the-Trainer program (highest level) by founder Prof Michael Bernard, focusing on mental health, resilience-building, personal motivation and habits of mind.
Family Life Work
Chooi Seng is known as the pioneer-founder and the first Executive Director of Focus on the Family Singapore during the late 1990s. He was trained in Colorado Springs (USA) by FOTF founder Dr James Dobson. During his tenure with FOTF (SG), he ran the weekly one hour radio broadcast on FM 93.8, as well as the 90-seconds daily commentary.
In 1998, Chooi Seng was one of the very first to be certified in the Prepare/Enrich train-the-trainer program by founder Dr David Olsen. This certification is the highest level accreditation for Seminar Directors. Today, he continues to certify local facilitators as well as in the nearby regions like Chiangmai & Bangkok (Thailand), Jakarta, Surabaya & Bandung (Indonesia) & Phnom Penh (Cambodia). Besides running the Prepare/Enrich Facilitators Training, Chooi Seng also conducts the Group Program and Refresher Courses.
In 2007, Chooi Seng became the first and only Family Wellness Instructor (highest level) accredited by the late George Doub (founder of Family Wellness Associates). He has since been an advocate of Family Wellness programs in tandem with Prepare/Enrich.
Other Significant Counselling-Related Work
Chooi Seng served as the Chairman of St Andrew’s Lifestream (a Counseling & Education Agency) in Singapore, managing a staff team of counsellors and educators. During this time he completed a 42-hour Clinical Supervision Course in 2013, establishing him as a clinical supervisor for students from Edith Cowan, Monash University, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, NIE etc.
Chooi Seng is also a pioneer who helps to build compassionate communities. He had led Seasons, a Support Group to the singles who have suffered personal loss. He provides them a safe place they could find healing and recovery. He also facilitates a Widowers Support Group that attempts to normalise grief in a safe & non-judgemental way.
Additionally, Chooi Seng has taught counselling on behalf of Waverley Abbey College, UK, and at TCA SOC & Universitas Ciputra (Surabaya).
Session Details
Date & Time
6 Oct (Sun), 4pm - 6pm
Location
City Hall Area
Our sessions take place at a conveniently situated training office in the heart of town. Our group size is small, safe, conducive, and personable, offering plenty of high-value interactivity and learning opportunities.
We choose to conduct these sessions on Sunday afternoons, recognizing that many other sessions are typically scheduled on weeknights. This timing ensures participants are refreshed and engaged, avoiding the fatigue often experienced after a long day at work, thus optimizing the productivity of our sessions.
Usual rate: $160/pax
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6 Oct (Sun), 4pm - 6pm
