Dr Gloria Kong

Dr Gloria Kong is passionate about empowering individuals to live an adaptive, effective, and contented life. She has a lot of experience in teaching, training, and coaching youths and adults, especially those in education, human resource, and social services. As psychotherapist, she works with individuals of different ages and social backgrounds. She employs a wide range of therapeutic modalities, particularly attuned to Brainspotting Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and Person-Focused Therapy. She is a certified practitioner for Cogmed Working Memory Training, Prepare-Enrich (for couples), Life Coaching, and a Certified Brainspotting practitioner and Consultant.

A trauma-informed practitioner, Gloria offers counselling on various mental health issues - psychological (e.g., stress, anger management, anxiety, depression, OCD); psychosocial (e.g., self- concept/self-esteem development and repair, growth mind set, assertiveness, etc); and life events (e.g., role adjustment, transitional issues, adolescence related issues, parenting, loss and trauma, etc). She customises clients’ intervention according to their needs, by helping them discover their resources and motivating them to meet life’s challenges with fortitude and resilience. Gloria employs a client-centred, collaborative therapeutic approach; believing therapy should empower clients to create the life they aspire. She sees herself as an active guide, helping and supporting clients through issues they face, focusing on their past, present and future, believing all these have a part to play in clients’ present self.

As an avid lifelong learner, she continues to change and impact life in and outside the counselling room. She published a book entitled “Critical Thinking for Effective Teaching and Learning” and has many years’ experience supervising and training educators. She lectures part time at a local university on “Human Life-span Development.” Her areas of interest include motivation, cognitive restructuring, optimising potential in human beings throughout their lifespan, and application of neuro plasticity into daily life.

Selected Publications:

Kong, G. (2023). Let us ride on inter-generational wisdom! Witness – A Publication of Christ Methodist Church: What Makes Us Human, (Issue 2), 10–11.
Kong, S. L. G. (2010). Critical thinking for effective teaching and learning. Singapore: Research Publishing Services.
Kong, S. L. (2007). Cultivating critical and creative thinking skills. In A. G. Tan (Ed.), Creativity: Handbook for teachers (pp. 303–326). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Kong, S. L. (2006). Using thinking skills to intrinsically motivate effective learning: An observation from a teacher education classroom. The Korean Journal of Thinking and Problem Solving, 16(1), 75–90.
Kong, S. L., & Seng, S. H. (2004). Enhancing the critical thinking skills and dispositions of pre-service teachers. The Korean Journal of Thinking and Problem Solving, 14(2), 41–56.

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