PositiveLinks.net is where my professional life and personal purpose meet. It launched in 1999, the same year I became a full Member of the Singapore Psychological Society. But my professional work began earlier, in 1994, in the United States, where I first discovered what it means to sit with someone in their most difficult moments.
The Beginning: Science, Curiosity, and an Unexpected Turn
My academic roots are in science. I completed my Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry at Mount Holyoke College in the United States, a foundation that gave me a deep appreciation for evidence, rigour, and asking hard questions. But something kept pulling me in a different direction. I was drawn to people, to the complexity of how we think and feel and make sense of our lives. That pull eventually won.
I made the decision to pursue psychology, earning my PhD in Communications Sciences and Disorders, specialising in Learning Disabilities, from Northwestern University. It was an unconventional path, moving from biochemistry into learning disabilities and then into clinical psychology. But that unconventional path turned out to be exactly right. The scientific grounding I carried with me became an asset, not a detour.
Building the Practice: From Schools to Individuals
When PositiveLinks.net launched in 1999, my work centred on children, students, and schools. I worked with young people navigating learning disabilities, ADHD, and the particular challenges of not quite fitting the mould that education systems are built around. I provided personalised support, ran workshops, and trained teachers to better understand the students who needed them most.
Over four years at the National Institute of Education in Singapore, and later at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, I had the privilege of training educators and leading postgraduate research programs. I also worked clinically at Raffles Hospital Counselling Centre and Ovspring Developmental Clinic, supporting adults and families across a wide range of psychological concerns.
Through all of this, I noticed something. The children I had supported in their early years were growing up. And the women around them, mothers, teachers, caregivers, were often quietly struggling in ways nobody was naming.
Where My Focus Has Grown: Women in Midlife
To better serve the adults in my practice, I completed my Master of Psychology in Clinical Psychology at James Cook University. That decision, to pursue clinical training after years of practice, reflects something I hold to be true: that learning never stops, and neither does growth.
Today, my work has a particular focus that feels both professional and deeply personal. I work with women who are navigating midlife, those complex, often disorienting years when identity shifts, bodies change, roles evolve, and the question of what comes next becomes impossible to ignore. I work with women who have recently received an ADHD diagnosis, or who are beginning to wonder whether ADHD might explain a lifetime of feeling different. And I work at the intersection of both, because midlife and ADHD intersect far more often than most people realise.
My clients are based across Asia Pacific, South Asia, and the Middle East. I understand the particular cultural worlds many of us carry alongside our personal struggles, the expectations of family, the weight of community, the complexity of being a woman in cultures where women's inner lives are not always given space.
Why This Work Matters to Me
I became a psychologist because I believe that understanding yourself changes everything. Not in a dramatic, sudden way. Quietly. The way clarity comes when you finally have language for something you have been feeling for years.
That is what I try to offer in every session. A space where you are not too much or not enough. Where your story is held with care. Where healing and growth can finally intertwine.
PositiveLinks.net has been my own practice of going beyond and choosing to be. I hope it becomes part of yours.
If something in this story resonates with you, I would be glad to hear from you.