As parents, one of our greatest fears is to see our child go through physical or psychological challenges.
And when it comes to the latter, we sometimes find ourselves lost in figuring out if our child is going through a phase or has some abnormality.
If you are going through that state right now, then employing the help of a child psychologist can make sense of it all – and help your child deal with it as well.
As parents, we need to understand the normal and abnormal psychological patterns our child is going through. Doing so will allow us to teach them better how to cope with their emotions.
With that said, we have compiled several Singapore based child psychologists that can help you and your child deal with said challenges.
Here are our top suggestions.
Psych Connect
Psych Connect is a clinic that specializes in child development.
They provide a holistic approach to your child’s wellness by carefully assessing your child’s condition and implementing scientifically recognized therapeutic methods.
Their services include:
- Child Psychological assessment – for children as young one-year-old.
- Psychotherapy – for children as young as three years of age.
- Educational therapy – to ensure social, emotional, and academic growth.
- Occupational therapy – for children with cognitive, sensory, and physical difficulties.
- Speech and language therapy – to address communication, language, and speech issues.
- Behavioural therapy – to help manage and improve a child’s self-esteem, self-control, and behaviour.
Psych Connect is located at 10 Winstedt Rd, #03-13, Singapore, 227977.
Adelphi
Adelphi Psych Medicine Clinic caters to children and adults and is located near the National Art Gallery and beside St Andrew’s Cathedral.
The clinic provides psychotherapy sessions – and has years of specialized training and experience handling child psychology cases using evidence-based methods.
Their services include:
- Clinical consultation – which is entirely private and confidential.
- Child Counselling
- Coping with stress and trauma
- Dealing with grief and depression
Adelphi is located at 1 Coleman Street, The Adelphi #04-32, Singapore 179803.
They are open from Monday-Saturday from 10 am to 7 pm. They can also cater to patients during Sundays and public holidays by appointment.
Think Psychological Services
Think Psychological Services is a collective of child psychologists that are well-versed in developmental, educational, and clinical psychology. This team of experienced health professionals allows them to provide a more dynamic approach to assessing, diagnosing, and implementing the correct intervention services or recommendations for your child.
The clinic also believes in a holistic approach to child psychology.
They work with their patient, parents, and other individuals that are in constant contact with the child. Their work involves teaching adults how to interact with the child by providing social skills training properly.
Their services include:
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder)
- Anxiety
- Behaviour Management
- Conduct Disorder
- Depression
- Dyslexia
- Gaming Addiction
- Giftedness
- Global Development Delay
- Intellectual Disability
- Internet Addiction
- Learning Disorders (e.g., Dyscalculia and Dysgraphia)
- Mood Disorders
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Restrictive Eating
- Selective Mutism
- Sexuality Issues
Think Psychological Services is located at 123 Penang Road, #03-13 Regency House, Singapore 238465
Note: Patients are required to schedule an appointment.
Promises
Promises is considered by many as one of the best child psychology centres in Singapore and looking at the team that they have, the claim isn’t far-fetched.
The clinic was founded by Dr Munidasa Winslow, a world-renowned psychiatrist in impulse control disorders and addiction – and is a pioneer of the said field in the APAC region.
Promises address child psychology cases through a holistic and multidisciplinary approach based on recommendations from their in-house team of counsellors and psychiatrists.
The system allows them to develop custom strategies in approaching each case they handle.
Their services include:
- Personal counselling for children and adolescents
- Group therapy for children and adolescents – focusing on anger management and social skills training.
- Parenting skills training
- Family counselling
- Diagnostic, Developmental and Psycho-Educational assessments conducted by licensed clinical child psychologists
Promises is located at #09-22/23, Novena Medical Center, 10 Sinaran Drive, Singapore 307506.
They are open from Monday to Friday from 9 am to 6 pm, and on Saturday from 9 am to 3 pm (Clinical Services Only)
Therapy Alliance
We are parents of a Special Needs Child with autism.
Therapy Alliance is owned and operated by a couple with a special needs child – and was formed based on their personal experiences taking care of their child.
To date, the centre boasts of several experienced special education teachers, counsellors, psychologists, and occupational and speech therapists.
These professionals help parents and guardians eliminate guesswork when interacting with their special needs child.
Their services include:
- Speech therapy sessions
- Occupational therapy
- Social skills training
- Anger management sessions
- Assessment and counselling
- Art sessions – as a way to accelerate treatment.
Therapy Alliance provides a free consultation.
Bloom Child Psychology
Bloom Child Psychology is a private educational facility that specializes in child psychology.
They are proficient in handling a broad spectrum of special needs and developmental conditions such as intellectual disabilities, selective mutism, ADHD, dyslexia, autism/Asperger, and can even accommodate cognitively gifted children.
They use evidence-based methodologies and coordinate with the child’s parents and teachers. They do this to ensure that the adults are aware of and understand how to interact with and handle special needs children properly.
Their services include:
- Case assessment and diagnosis
- Consultation, training, and supervision workshops for parents/guardians
- Evidence-based therapy
- Social skills development
Bloom Child Psychology is located at 317 Outram Road, #02-56 Concorde Shopping Centre, Singapore 169075
Think Kids
Think Kids specialises in catering to special needs children or patients with challenging behaviours, ranging from 18 months to post-teenage years.
They place great importance on implementing Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention for younger patients with diagnosed autism and developmental issues.
Each child is managed by licensed child psychologists, behaviour therapists, counsellors, and educational & developmental psychologists.
The centre uses evidence-based methodologies like Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) to address and treat patients.
For convenience, they also provide video counselling and have sessions with patients both in and outside Singapore.
Their services include
- Patient assessment and diagnostics
- Individualized ABA programs conducted by licensed child psychologists
- Social skills and behavioural development
- Intervention and developmental services
Think Kids is located at 123 Penang Road, #03-13 Regency House, Singapore 238465
Kids Therapy
Kids Therapy is part of the Olive Branch Counselling Services umbrella.
They provide psychotherapy and counselling for children between the ages of 4 and 12 years old.
Their system leverages play to help their patients express themselves and teach them how to handle and overcome psycho-social challenges.
Their approach to child psychology revolves around trauma resolution, emotional modulation, growth and development, and helping a child deal with social integration.
Their services include:
- Applied behaviour analysis
- Art therapy
- Cognitive therapy
- Family therapy
- Interpersonal therapy
- Play therapy
Kids Therapy is located at Olive Branch Counselling Services Pte Ltd, 02-32 Mountbatten Square, 229 Mountbatten Road, Singapore 398007
Psy Wellness
Psy Wellness represents the private practice of psychiatrist Dr Lim Boon Leng.
Dr BL Lim specializes in mood and anxiety disorders, children’s ADHD, and child psychiatry.
He believes that treatments are supposed to be consultative for them to be successful. Thus, his approach to resolving psychiatric conditions revolves around consulting with his patients (or the guardian of his patient) to develop a bespoke approach to treatment.
Services include:
- Psychiatric Evaluation and Diagnosis
- Blood Tests, Radiological Investigations and Pharmacogenomic Tests
- Medications and Psycho-pharmacological therapy
- Psychological Therapy / Psychotherapy
Psy Wellness is located at 6 Napier Road, #09-09, Gleneagles Medical Centre, Singapore 258499
National University Hospital
The Paediatric Psychological Services of the National University Hospital comprises child psychiatrists and paediatricians that provide help to the emotional and psycho-social well-being of special needs children.
The clinic can handle children under the age of 7 – under the supervision of developmental paediatricians and psychiatrists from the National University Hospital Child Development Unit.
Their services include:
- Autism Assessment
- Educational Assessment (including cognitive testing and school readiness assessment)
- Neurodevelopmental Assessment (evaluation of a child’s neuro-developmental weaknesses and strengths to optimize a child’s ability to learn)
- Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) Assessment
- School Observations
- Evaluation of Adaptive Functioning
- Behavioural therapy for children with internalizing difficulties
- Parent training for children with developmental delays
- Group-based transition program for children with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Sibling workshop for siblings of children with special needs
- Art therapy
The NHU Paediatric Psychological Services is located at 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119074
