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COVID-19 Update – DORSCON Yellow (26 April 2022 Onwards)

In line with the measures implemented by the authorities, the following will come into effect from 26 April 2022:

SafeEntry – Visitor check-in system
As Singapore has step down the use of contact tracing measures, TraceTogether and SafeEntry check-in is no longer required.

Visitor Management
Our centre will remain to be operating by appointment basis. No walk-ins are allowed. Visitors without scheduled appointment will be denied entry.

Workplace Measures
At our centre, our team members will be allowed to remove their masks when they are not interacting physically with others and when they are not in client-facing areas.

Additionally, we have retained our flexible work arrangements as part of our efforts to help our team members to avoid peak period crowds.

Centre Measures
As mask-wearing will continued to be required indoors, all team members and visitors are required to wear a mask during their visit here.

We seek your cooperation and understanding of the above. Visitors who are unable to comply will be denied entry.

The Counsellor’s Insights…

~Mr. James Chong

August is the start of an exciting month.

We have a new team member – Ms Samantha Tee! She joins us as an operations executive, overseeing the smooth centre operations on Friday. We have a couple more volunteers who have recently joined us. We will reveal more details soon!

Our in-house Community Engagement Executive, Ms Wu Shu Han, has worked on a series of Instagram posts for August. It will be bit-sized, informative, and yet easy to digest. Please look forward to the posts.

In August, we will have three major events:

Our pro-bono Basic Counselling Skills (BSC) workshop.
Our maiden launch of the Professional Certification in Solution-focused Brief Therapy (SFBT).
Resuming the group supervision for my learners who have graduated from The Lion Mind’s CBT workshop programme.

The BSC workshop is helpful for everyone, as it gives an insight into the mental health industry, the various mental health professionals, and the essential counselling skills. I will engage learners in in-depth discussion and role play. Not only that, learners will discover that counselling is not that easy. This will dispels the myth that counselling is “just talking”.

The professional certificate in SFBT is my way of branching out into another new psychotherapy workshop territory. After having more than ten runs of the CBT workshop, I have decided to run something a little more compact and focused. This workshop is a good add-on for mental health practitioners and life coaches who seek out an alternative modality to help their clients. I am proud to announce that the Australia Counselling Association (ACA) Ongoing Professional Development (OPD) programme and the International Association of Therapists (IAOTH) have accredited this workshop.

As the COVID-19 pandemic is easing here in Singapore and we have a new space for The Lion Mind, it is time to resume group supervision. The group supervision allows participants to clock supervision hours for both ACA and the Association of Psychotherapists And Counsellors (Singapore) (APACS) at an affordable rate. I cannot wait to see my fellow psychotherapists!

I am positively excited. Are you?

To read past articles, you may go to The Counsellor’s Insights page.