Academic Qualification:
- Master of Counselling
- PhD in Education
- Master in Cognitive Science
- Postgrad Dip in Psychology
- Bachelor of Arts in Education
Professional Affiliation:
- Registered Counsellor (CMSAC) – Singapore Association for Counselling
- Clinical Member – Association of Christian Counsellor, Singapore
- Life Member – Educational Research Association of Singapore
Professional Trainings:
- Brainspotting Therapy – Certified Practitioner, and consultant
- Brainspotting and Addiction Specialty Training
- Cogmed Working Memory Training
- Prepare-Enrich for couple
- Life Coaching
Gloria Kong is passionate about empowering individuals to live an adaptive, effective, and contented life. She has a lot of experience in teaching, training, and coaching youths and adults, especially those in education, human resource, and social services.
As psychotherapist, she works with individuals of different ages and social backgrounds. She employs a wide range of therapeutic modalities, particularly attuned to Brainspotting Therapy (Certified practitioner, and Consultant), Person Centred Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Besides client works, Gloria also provides clinical supervision, both general case consultation as well as Brainspotting specific case.
A trauma-informed practitioner, Gloria offers counselling on various mental health issues – psychological (e.g., stress, anger management, anxiety, depression, OCD); psychosocial (e.g., self-concept/self-esteem development and repair, growth mind set, assertiveness, etc); and life events (e.g., role adjustment, transitional issues, adolescence related issues, parenting, loss and trauma, etc). She customises clients’ intervention according to their needs, by helping them discover their resources and motivating them to meet life’s challenges with fortitude and resilience. Gloria employs a client-centred, collaborative therapeutic approach; believing therapy should empower clients to create the life they aspire. She sees herself as an active guide, helping and supporting clients through issues they face, focusing on their past, present and future, believing all these have a part to play in clients’ present self.
As an avid lifelong learner, she continues to change and impact life in and outside the counselling room. She published a book entitled “Critical Thinking for Effective Teaching and Learning” and has many years’ experience supervising and training educators. She lectures part time at a local university on “Human Life-span Development.” Her areas of interest include motivation, cognitive restructuring, optimising potential in human beings throughout their lifespan, and application of neuro plasticity into daily life.
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