The Story Behind Our Professional Counselling Services

Our founder Evelyn Koh first began counselling as a volunteer. It was a life-changing experience for her as she discovered the transformative power of the counselling relationship in the lives of the people, she worked with.

Over time, she encountered many who shared their difficulties in the process of seeking similar effective counselling help for themselves or their loved ones. There was often the dilemma on where to go to receive the most suitable help, considering factors such as quality, confidentiality and affordability.

In 2004, she was motivated to establish a private counselling and psychotherapy practice to address the community’s need for more professional counselling services. Driven by a strong personal belief in the transformative power of counselling and psychotherapy, she simultaneously pursued advanced academic, practical, and specialised counselling training to ensure the high-quality professional counselling she advocates for. With more than two decades of experience, including her roles as Counsellor and later, Senior Counsellor at a Family Service Centre, she has worked extensively with youths, individuals, couples, parents, and families on a wide range of issues, including behavioural, relationship, emotional, and mental health

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Core Pillars Of Our Services

In this practice, it is our belief that every life can be lived to the fullest with qualified and accessible counselling and psychotherapy help, along with the individuals’ personal commitment to the process of change.

We have thus made it our profession to help people in their quest for healing and a more fulfilling life and have built our services on these five core pillars.

  • Delivery of quality professional counselling and therapy services built on professional skills, competencies and knowledge
  • Commitment to journeying with our clients through the process of change
  • Protection of client confidentiality aligned with professional standards and ethics
  • Affordable fees for accessibility to quality private professional counselling and therapy services while being commensurate with the qualification and experience levels of our counsellors and therapists
  • Development of in-house expertise in approaches that align with our philosophy of counselling and therapy, and contribute to the development of best practices in counselling and related professions through external teaching, clinical supervision and professional consultation.

Our Philosophy

We believe in restoring humanity to those we work with to help each person live out one’s full potential in life. We see people as unique individuals, each having their own set of beliefs, philosophies, desires and hopes for their life, and each doing the best they can at any moment towards what they want. At times, these choices may no longer be in one’s best interest and may instead compromise some aspects of oneself resulting in emotional, psychological, behavioural or mental health struggles.

We trust that, with the appropriate help and support, people are capable of learning, unlearning and relearning to make better choices to improve one’s well-being and relationships. We thus strive to provide our clients with the experience of authentic care, warmth, acceptance, empathy, accompaniment and compassion in the process of healing, growth and personal change.

When one feels safe, seen and held in one’s own humanity, one can reconnect with oneself with love and compassion. In this process, old wounds are healed and one is free to explore and discover one’s sense of self, identity, purpose, and develop the internal strength to work towards it. It may involve hard choices and the hard work of facing the initial discomfort, but with courage and tenacity, it is not impossible to do.

Rather than seeing help-seekers as problems to be fixed, our approach towards counselling and psychotherapy is humanistic, person-centred, and oriented towards empowerment and growth. To this end, we make deliberate effort to create the conditions in the counselling relation for this collaborative process to take place. As our clients, you will experience from our counsellors and therapists:

  • Safe and non-judgemental environment where you can feel comfortable and free to share your stories, struggles and concerns.
  • Help to explore and process your internal experiences including your feelings, thoughts, behaviour and bodily experiences to better understand your needs and what matters to you.
  • Support in reviewing your choices to empower yourself towards what matters to you in a realistic, sustainable and responsible manner.
  • Support as you work towards the desired changes and goals.
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Our Vision

To be a trusted and endearing source for human growth towards greater empowerment and a more fulfilling life.

Our Mission

We provide professional counselling, psychotherapy, and coaching services. We do this through qualified, experienced, compassionate counsellors and psychotherapists with advanced level of counselling knowledge and firm commitment to upholding professional standards in our care of our clients.

We contribute to improving mental health and well-being in the community. We do this by providing professional training, supervision and consultation to enhance clinical skills of helping professionals, and by providing personal development training to equip individuals to better their mental health and well-being.

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Chan Pei Lin

Master of Guidance and Counselling (MGC)

Counsellor Masters in Guidance and Counselling (MGC), James Cook University Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), University of Buffalo New York State

I have always had a keen interest in working with children and youth. I find it fulfilling and meaningful to be working, supporting and guiding them, and I now have more than eight years of experience in this area. After graduating from the University of Buffalo, New York State with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, I started working with children and youth with Special Needs in early intervention. From my interactions with my clients over these years, I have come to see that being able to provide the emotional support that they and their families need is very important.

Being diagnosed with dyslexia and tactile defensives (Sensory Integrative Disorder), I remember the unconditional and judgement-free support I received from families and friends that got me through the various challenges. Therefore, I aim to offer the same unconditional support and judgement-free interaction to all my clients. Through my personal experience, I understand how crucial it is for individuals to develop a strong emotional foundation and a support network, especially those in similar circumstance. Therefore, I strongly believe in journeying and supporting individuals through stressful times, and in working with their loved ones through the strengthening of the bonds within the family unit.

I am trained in the major counselling and therapeutic approaches and also in Choice Theory Reality Therapy and Behavioural Therapy. My work is informed by Person Centred Therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy, and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy. Beyond children and youth, I have counselled clients in other settings and age groups including young adults and families. I am particularly interested in supporting people in building resilience and skills to cope with stress, anxiety adjustments and overall socio-emotional needs. Given my own personal and work experience, I firmly believe that everyone deserves a chance in a fulfilling life. To better support my clients, I am currently pursuing my certification for Choice Theory and Reality Therapy after obtaining my Masters in Guidance and Counselling at James Cook University.

Evelyn Rochelle Koh

Senior Principal Counsellor, Counselling Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor

Master of Social Science (Counselling), CTRTC, EFT, EFCT
Clinical Supervisor & Instructor (Senior Faculty of William Glasser International & William Glasser Institute, Singapore)

Certified Human Behaviour Analyst (DISC)
Certified PREPARE-ENRICH

I developed a passion in counselling when I started out as a school volunteer counsellor working with youth. I saw the transformative power of the counselling relationship on the youths in school and even later in life beyond school. This was a life changing experience for me and I was spurred to setup my own private counselling and psychotherapy practice in 2004. That was a time when there were few counselling and consultation services in Singapore. Since then, I have been working with youths, couples, parents, working adults on their emotional issues and mental health and well-being through counselling and psychotherapy for over 20 years.

Beyond helping my clients within the counselling room, I believe in tapping on the multiplier effect to bring healing and strength to individuals, and relationships between couples and within families. I thus expanded my work and I now devote a large portion of my time towards raising the skills and competencies of the helping profession through lecturing, training, clinical supervision and consultancy services.

My area of passion and specialisation is Choice Theory, Reality Therapy, Lead Management (CTRTLM) because it is highly empowering. I thus find great joy in training counsellors, therapist, social workers, coaches, leaders and managers in this area.  I am also trained in Emotion Focused Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and Gottman Couples Therapy and my work is also informed by therapeutic models such as Positive Psychology, Humanistic Therapy, Experiential Therapy and Systemic Family Therapy.

I am grateful to have the opportunity to work with organisations across different sectors, ranging from Youth Centers, Family Service Centers and Specialist Centers to the Health Promotion Board (HPB) and Ministry of Education (MOE). The latter two involved projects where I was able to share my passion for helping youth in Singapore. With the HPB, I helped develop the Peer Support Program for youth and conducted training for youth leaders from tertiary institutions and for those involved in the online peer support network “Youthpals”. With the MOE, I conducted cluster training for school counsellors and teachers on counselling and therapy skills to better help our students.

It is also my firm conviction that all situations of loss and pain can be opportunities for deep healing, growth and connection. I have thus been committed to providing regular training on the topic of “Grief and Loss” to social service practitioners through the Social Service Institute (SSI).

Curriculum Vitae

  • Registered Singapore Counselor with Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC)
  • Registered Clinical Supervisor with Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC)
  • Registered Social Service Practitioner with Singapore Association of Social Workers (SASW)
  • Professional member of the American Counselling Association (ACA)
  • Senior Faculty member as Approved Instructor and Supervisor of William Glasser International and William Glasser Institute, Singapore. At William Glasser Institute, Singapore, Evelyn is serving in the Executive Committee to advocate Dr. William Glasser’s teaching in Choice Theory Psychology, Reality Therapy and Lead Management.
  • External Lecturer/ Clinical Supervisor, Swinburne University of Technology
  • Clinical Supervisor, James Cook University Singapore, Monash University
  • Associate Adult Educator, Social Service Institute
  • Trained in Gottman Couples Therapy, The Gottman Institute
  • Trained in Emotion-Focused Therapy, York University, EFT Clinic
  • Trained in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy, Canada