At Scott Psychological Centre, our Psychologists provide Counselling and Psychotherapy in a soothing, private, and safe environment

Our psychologists are trained to do therapy and counselling on the following issues:

• Anxiety & Depression Psychotherapy

  Techniques to treat anxiety & depression includes, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), biofeedback, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and journaling. Other strategies developed by research in positive psychology are used e.g. "The Three Miracles" involving exercises in being grateful.

• Stress, Pain, Anger Management

  All three conditions can be managed by learning self-regulation skills i.e. improving your control of the mind-body system. Yoga and mindfulness meditation are specifically emphasized as ways to increase self-regulation. Assertiveness training and conflict resolution are useful for anger management.

• ADHD Diagnosis & Treatment

  One of the first psychological treatment approach for Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is psycho-education where the client learns the surprising ways ADHD affects adult functioning. This includes intimate relationships and vulnerability to addictions of various kinds. Another counselling approach helps the client improve their self-regulation skills by learning mindfulness techniques e.g. meditation. Meditation along with stress management, can be helpful in treating the mood disorder and anxiety that commonly occurs in ADHD.

• Child Behavioural and Emotional Issues

  Raising children is a complex process. It can be rewarding at times, yet it can also be difficult, challenging, and frustrating. Every parent is forced to confront issues of discipline across the stages of their child's development. Tantrums, noncompliance, talking-back, arguing, sharing issues, fears or separation anxiety are some problems that can occur. Understanding your child's behavioural and emotional problems and learning how to manage them positively will help your child develop self-regulation skills, independence, confidence, as well as promote positive parent-child relationships.

• Neuropsychological Assessment

  A neuropsychological assessment is a comprehensive assessment that understands the relationship between an individual's neurological and medical condition and his/her cognition, emotion, and behaviour. These conditions can be congenital and/or acquired (e.g., epilepsy, head injury, stroke, hypoxia, to name a few). The assessment evaluates the individual's intellectual functioning, attention, learning, memory, executive functioning, visuo-spatial and perceptual skills, emotional wellbeing, and behaviour.

• Psycho-Educational Assessment

  Is your child having difficulties keeping up academically? Have his/her teachers raised concerns about his/her progress, motivation, or the difference between your child's potential for learning and the actual academic performance? A psycho-educational assessment is a comprehensive evaluation of your child’s learning profile that understands his/her areas of learning strengths and weaknesses and identifies if there is learning disorder (e.g., ADHD, Dyslexia, etc). By understanding your child’s learning needs, appropriate recommendations can be made

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

  Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a condition that develops after an individual experiences or witnesses a traumatic life-threatening event or serious injury. Well-known examples of traumatic events are accidents, assaults and abuses. However, any event that causes intense fear, helplessness or horror, resulting in feelings of an unpredictable or out of control life can be consider traumatic. This includes more common events such as traumatic childbirth, pregnancy loss or life-threatening illnesses.

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

  Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a condition in which an individual experience recurring, unwanted intrusive thoughts or feelings – ie: obsessions, resulting in anxiety. This anxiety causes him/her to engage in repetitive behaviours – ie: compulsions. Symptoms of OCD generally revolve around the themes of thinking, checking, cleaning, counting, and arranging. They are excessive in nature, time-consuming, distressing and disruptive to the individual's daily functioning.

• Parenting issues

  Parents often second guess themselves if they are doing the right thing. This is even more so for parents who are faced with children displaying difficult and challenging behaviours. They can be helped through psychoeducation to understand a child's developmental stages and the unique character of each individual child. Issues of the parents' own attachment and sense of security will be explored in order to help them tune in better to the attachment needs of their children. Cognitive methods of intervention will also be applied to challenge self-defeating thoughts about their own parenting skills and enable a more positive, pro-active and energetic approach.

• Learning Difficulties

  Is concentrating over a longer period a difficulty for you? Is someone in your family struggling with reading out loud and writing an essay or tackling a math problem? Does your child struggle with school? While every kid has trouble with homework from time to time, if a certain area of learning is consistently problematic, it might indicate a learning disorder. By creating a strong support system for children with learning disabilities and helping them learn to express themselves, deal with frustration and work through challenges, you will be focusing on your child's growth as a person.

• Codependence Counselling & Therapy

  Codependence is also known as Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD). Specialized techniques are used such as inner child work, biofeedback, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and journaling. Dr. Scott has learned various techniques used for persons with codependence through attending workshops at the Meadows Institute conducted by Pia Mellody.

• Grief Therapy

  Although one usually associates grieving with loss due to death, there are in fact various reasons for grieving; one relatively frequent reason is loss due to the end of an intimate relationship. For uncovering road blocks to successful grieving, existential and supportive psychotherapy are usually helpful.

• Third Culture Kids

  Third Culture Kids (TCK) are individuals that move between cultures before they have had the opportunity to fully develop their personal and cultural identity. Being a TCK can bring about challenges such as developing a sense of belonging, commitment and attachment to a culture. These factors play a strong role in one's self-esteem and identity. By supporting TCKs in their social and emotional well-being holistically, we can help them to realize benefits such as cultural intelligence or cross-cultural competence.

• WISC-V IQ Test

  We administer the Wechsler intelligence Scale for Children – Fifth Edition (WISC-V), which assesses a child's cognitive abilities including concept formation, visual spatial processing, inductive reasoning, working memory, and speed of information processing. IQ assessments are generally conducted for children between the age of 6 and 16 if parents require additional information on their child's educational or psychosocial functioning. For example, intelligence tests may help to diagnose any learning disabilities your child may face. An IQ assessment is also necessary for entry to special needs school in Singapore.

• Sexuality issues Counselling

  An integrative therapeutic approach is taken (i.e. an integration of biological, psychological, relational and contextual information). This bio-psycho-social approach has been found to be helpful in treating sexual problems such as lack of desire, erectile dysfunction, and problems achieving orgasm. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transsexual (LGBT) issues are often helped by counselling aimed at empowering the individual to lead a fulfilling life in the face of stressors such as social stigmatization and discrimination.

• Caregiver Stress

  Providing care to a spouse, elderly parent or family member suffering long term illness or dementia is often a distressing experience. The caregiver has to endure high levels of stress, lowered sense of well-being and a host of negative emotions. The practice of mindfulness has been found to be helpful in enabling caregivers to be more reflective thereby allowing them to tap into a wider range of coping skills. Mindfulness based exercises leads to the individual being less reactive to and judgmental about upsetting thoughts and emotions. This can be combined with a cognitive-behavioural approach to enhance problem solving abilities, challenge their negative thoughts and assumptions and reengage in positive aspects of life.

• Career Counseling

  Do you feel stuck in your career? Are you thinking of changing your job? Or are you in middle of a transition in your workplace and you feel you can't reach your full potential and don't see any opportunity for growth? Almost everyone experiences this at some point in their career. If an everyday task seems like a burden and not an achievement, then it might be the right time to determine if a change might be the next step in your career. Career Counseling can help you identify your potential, work on resilience techniques and analyze factors influencing your career.

• Infidelity Counselling

  Infidelity is increasingly recognized as a form of trauma due to the shock from finding out that your partner had been unfaithful. Psychotherapy involves initial stabilization of emotions followed by various techniques to repair and actually improve the relationship if that is deemed appropriate.