Carolyn Ng
PsyD, MMSAC, RegCLR
Anchorage for Loss & Transition
Carolyn Ng, PsyD, MMSAC, RegCLR maintains a private practice, Anchorage for Loss and Transition (www.anchorage-for-loss.org), in Singapore. She also serves as Associate Director of the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition in Portland, OR, United States. Previously, she was a Principal Counsellor with the Children’s Cancer Foundation in Singapore, specialising in cancer-related palliative care and bereavement counselling support. She is a registered counsellor, master clinical member and approved clinical supervisor with the Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC). She is also a consultant to a cancer support and bereavement ministry in Sydney, NSW, Australia and is certified in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Narrative Therapy as well. Carolyn first graduated with Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales, Australia, majoring in psychology, followed by a Masters of Social Science (Counselling) from the Edith Cowan University, Australia and a Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry (Conflict Management) from the Trinity Theological Seminary, USA. She subsequently completed her doctoral training in psychology with the California Southern University, USA. She is also trained in Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, USA, community crisis response by the National Organisation for Victim Assistance (NOVA), USA, and Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) by LivingWorks, Canada. She is a trained end-of-life doula and a certified Advanced Care Planning facilitator. Her wide counselling experiences cover youth delinquency, marital issues, family violence, mental health, incarceration, grief and loss, and crisis intervention. She has varied supervisory experiences with such helping professionals as counsellors, social workers and therapists in diverse settings as well. She conducts training workshops and presents on various topics in English, Mandarin and Cantonese, as invited by different organizations both in Singapore and other countries like Malaysia, Taiwan, Bhutan, Australia, Mexico, Turkey and the United States. Her recent writing concerns meaning-oriented narrative reconstruction with bereaved families, with an emphasis on conversational approaches for fostering new meaning and action.