English-speaking therapy in Singapore exists, but the options for sustained, depth-oriented work are limited. Mental health stigma in professional circles is significant, not uniform, but real and worth naming. Many people here specifically want someone outside their local context: a therapist they won't encounter at a school event or in a professional setting, someone who doesn't move in the same circles.
I work with anyone who needs support in English and is living in Singapore. Relationship difficulties, identity questions, career strain, something that's been running quietly in the background for years. Couples where one person is thriving and the other is quietly losing ground, and neither of them wants to say it out loud.
Functioning well and doing well aren't the same thing. Singapore is a place where that distance can stay invisible for a long time, because the functioning is very visible and the other part isn't.
The work
The work I do is relational and pattern-focused. I don't run through intake checklists or assign exercises between sessions. I pay attention to what happens in the room: what you're saying, what you're not saying, the moments when something shifts or goes flat or speeds up. That's the material we work with.
Most people arrive already knowing the story of their situation. They've told it to themselves a hundred times and always land in the same place. What's missing is a different angle, someone watching in real time who can name what's invisible from inside it. That's what I offer. Not interpretation from a distance, but attention in the room, offered as it happens.
I work with individuals and couples. Individual work is usually about finding the pattern underneath the presenting problem, the thing that keeps recurring in different forms across different circumstances. Couples work is about finding what the argument is really about, which is rarely what it appears to be about. Both come down to the same thing: seeing what you haven't been able to see, and from there, actually being able to do something different.
Being in Singapore
Singapore has a specific professional and social culture: high performance, impression management, an implicit expectation that you're improving everything including yourself. The transience adds something, a city where relationships are real but provisional, where you're aware that someone might leave next year, where building anything slowly feels risky.
For couples, Singapore can intensify whatever was already there. The money is good. The life is comfortable. The hours are long and the social world is small and work-adjacent. Relationship strain that would have been slow and manageable somewhere else can feel more acute here.
If any of that is part of what you're carrying, we can work with it. If what brings you is something else entirely, that's fine.
What people bring to online therapy
The people I work with in English come for a wide range of reasons: anxiety, depression, stress and burnout, anger management, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, loneliness, self-esteem issues, procrastination, sleep problems, attachment patterns, self-sabotage, perfectionism, identity questions, and existential concerns. Online counseling makes this work possible from wherever you are, whether you need an English-speaking therapist, a virtual counselor, or simply someone who can work in your language at a depth that matters.
How it works
One thing worth naming: I'm American. In a place where most English-speaking therapy defaults to structured, short-term CBT, I work differently - more open-ended, more interested in what's underneath. Some people find that's the distinction they were looking for.
Sessions are online via secure video call. I work with individuals and couples (60 minutes). Before your first session, we have a brief 15-minute call to see if this feels like the right fit for you.