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