Qualifications/Registrations to Associations:
Professional Clinical Counsellor (ACCS)
Registered Play Therapist (APTS)
P. Clinical Member (SAC)
Registered Social Worker (SASW)
Certified Gestalt Therapist with Children and Adolescents (West Coast Institute, USA)
Certified Facilitator for PREPARE/ENRICH (Prepare Enrich USA)
Certified in Clinical Trauma Professional Training Level 1 (CCTP)
Certified Performance Leadership Coach (ICF, Level 1)
Post-Graduate Certificate in Casework and Clinical Supervision (CCC)
Master of Counselling (Flinders University)
Bachelor of Arts (Social Work, minor in Psychology) (NUS)
Training and Clinical Experience:
Gladys works with individuals, couples, children, and adolescents, offering support for a wide range of emotional and relational challenges. With professional training in trauma therapies such as EMDR, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, and Attachment-Based Approaches, she helps clients process difficult experiences and build healthier ways of coping and relating. Gladys is a registered clinical counsellor with extensive experience supporting people through trauma, anxiety, relationship difficulties, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Her approach is collaborative and compassionate, integrating evidence-based therapies to help clients understand their emotions, strengthen relationships, and move toward meaningful and lasting change.
Gladys has more than a decade of experience as a social worker with clinical training, working with individuals and families at the Child Protection Specialist and Family Service Centres, and as a psychotherapist in her private practice. Gladys also provides consultation and training for social workers and counsellors at the family service centre in working with children.
Therapy Approaches:
- Gestalt Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Play-based, Expressive Arts Therapy
- Attachment-focused Approach
- Emotionally-focused Couples Therapy
- PREPARE/ENRICH (relationship assessment and counselling)
- Traima-focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TFCBT)
Fun fact:
Gladys enjoys visiting aquariums and is fascinated by the underwater world. She also keeps her own aquariums at home and enjoys observing the different personalities of the underwater creatures she cares for.