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SYLVIA SIVANESAN

Relationship Therapist,

Clinical Supervisor

About Sylvia

Sylvia's extensive experience spans 17 years of working with clients, community-based practitioners, and organizations in various settings such as private practice, government agencies, and community-based family services in both Singapore and Australia. Her dedicated work has centered around restoring hope, building resilience, and empowering clients to take charge of their lives.


Sylvia's expertise lies in helping individuals, couples, and families overcome relationship challenges. With a wealth of experience in supporting adults from diverse backgrounds, Sylvia creates a safe and accepting space for clients to develop meaningful connections. She specialises in working with adult clients who have faced adverse childhood experiences that affect their relationships in adulthood, providing guidance and support for healing and growth.


In the last 10 years, Sylvia has also served in leadership roles in not-for-profit community-based therapeutic services, and provided clinical supervision, training and mentoring of therapists and social workers in the areas of community mental health, addiction and family violence.

Credentials

  • EMDR Levels 1 & 2

  • Certification in Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy

  • Level 2 - Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy: Working with Couples

  • Level 3 - Healing from Trauma using Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy

  • Clinical Supervision within an Attachment Theory Framework

Educational Qualifications

  • Master of Social Sciences (Counselling)

  • Bachelor of Psychology

Areas of Special Interest

Therapy for adults

  • Couple’s counselling

  • Cross-cultural and interfaith relationships

  • Healing and growth from childhood trauma

  • Divorce and separation

  • Healing from past relationships

  • Gender and sexual identity, and orientation affirming

  • Integrating personal spiritual belief in therapy

Supervision

  • Clinical supervision for community-based practitioners

  • Developing the professional self

  • Healing for the wounded healer

  • Trauma-responsive leadership


Community-based services development

  • Planning and development of community-based therapeutic practice

  • Implementation of trauma-informed care for teams and organisations

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