In Fiona’s work as a counsellor/psychotherapist, her approach is Rogerian person-centered. Ensuring the comfort, safety, and confidentiality of her clients is a top priority. Through this approach, she has developed deep working relationships with her clients, to offer support and guidance in the many trials we face in life.
Her person-centric approach comes from her own experience, over twenty years of qualified teaching, counselling, and training in Ireland, Singapore, Germany, China, the United Kingdom, and beyond. She holds a Master’s Degree and a Diploma in Counselling. Her experience living overseas, and encountering people with difficulties from all walks of life, is the unique foundation of her work.
The method she uses for her counselling work is integrative. She tailors her strategy and approach specially to the issues facing each client, for example by assessing and delivering interventions. Psycho-education is something she values highly and personally believes in––it’s also a part of the service she offers.
Her experience is singular as she has lived many lives. She has been an expat and a local, a compassionate counsellor, a psycho-educator in the corporate world, and a mother. This patchwork of empathy informs the integrative approach she has taken to her professional life.
In order to bolster her experiences, she has acquired many certifications to assist with her treatments of (including, but not limited to): relationship problems, family issues, self-esteem, trauma, stress and anger management, marital therapy, adolescent counselling, parenting issues, depression and anxiety. Below listed are some of the latest trainings she has certified in.
- Developmental Model Couples Therapy
- Gottman Methods Couple Therapy Level 3.
- EMDR trained
- Basic NOVA CCRT Training – able to assist in a local emergency crisis
- Brainspotting Therapy phase 2 – Brainspotting Australia Pacific
She works in a wide range of areas including but not limited to:
- Relationship problems,
- Family issues,
- Self-esteem,
- Trauma,
- Stress management
- Anger management
- Marital/Couple Therapy
- Discernment Counselling
- Adolescent Counselling
- Parenting Issues
- Depression and Anxiety related issues
- Co-dependency and relationship issues
FIONA MAHER O’ SULLIVAN
Accreditation :
SAC Registered Counsellor
Professional Affiliation:
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Registered Member Singapore Counselling Association.
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Member EMDR Singapore
Education:
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Master of Guidance and Counselling, James Cook University, Singapore.
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Diploma in Applied Social Studies & Counselling, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
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Ireland Bachelor of Arts in English and German, University College Cork, Ireland
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Higher Diploma in Education, University College Cork, Ireland
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Diploma in Business German, University College Cork, Ireland
- Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA), British Council, Singapore
Training:
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EMDR Trained
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Completed Level 3 Gottman Method Couples Therapy
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The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy-The Couples Institute.
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National Community Crisis Response Team Training
- Brainspotting Therapy phase 2 – Brainspotting Australia Pacific