Angie Koh, M. Soc. Sc.

Angie holds a Masters of Social Sciences in Professional Counselling from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, with a speciality in CBT. She also has a Specialist Diploma in Counselling Psychology and is a SAC Clinical Member

She has been providing individual consultations, counselling, psychotherapy, and coaching to adults, teens, and children of various cultures and nationalities for over 20 years. She is trained in a variety of interventions and techniques. She worked as an Associate Counsellor in the Child Development Unit of a social service agency providing children & community services. As Associate Counsellor/Psychotherapist at a private counselling centre, she offered counselling and psychotherapy services to individuals and couples. Currently, she is a private independent practitioner. Believing that therapy is about what works specifically for the client and their needs, she uses integrative and eclectic approaches from several counselling therapies. Her principal modalities are Brainspotting, Gestalt Expressive Arts and EMDR.

Angie has had a long history working in the helping field, whether it is in Education or in Counselling. She began her career in the public sector teaching in a specialized language centre as well as at polytechnics, heading the Foreign Language section in one of the tertiary institutions. Thereafter, whilst working in the private sector, she recognised and felt compelled to address the emotional, physical, and educational challenges her adult and young learners were constantly facing. Thus, in 2000, she began her journey into learning and working in mental, emotional, and physical wellness, training in a Movement-Based Learning programme - Brain Gym, an Educational & Developmental Kinesiology method. She still integrates these techniques into her work, if need be, to assist children, teens and adults with learning challenges.

In 2003, she became certified in CranioSacral Therapy and specialises and enjoys working with infants, using this therapy to treat trauma and sensory integration issues in children. In 2005, she trained in EMDR, and obtained her Specialist Diploma in Counselling Psychology, and in 2012, obtained her Masters in Professional Counselling. Over the years, she has acquired several holistic and psychotherapeutic modalities and integrates them to enhance well-being, growth, and healing.

Her particular passion includes helping individuals receive relief from depression and anxiety, as well as healing from various forms of traumas, as she is a trauma-trained therapist.

Having personally experienced trauma in the past, she has a deep understanding, and a great desire to help people navigate their challenges around emotional and psychological difficulties, recalibrate their lives, restore their internal resources and increase resilience, especially through the use of Brainspotting, EMDR, Gestalt Expressive and Cognitive Behaviour Therapies.

Her initial and unusual academic training in Applied Linguistics (BA Sciences of Language, University of Franche Comté, Besançon, France) is reflected in her work helping clients communicate more effectively and in her great interest in diverse cultures and languages. Also, she brings creativity and originality with her previous background in the creative arts, notably, in theatre acting and dancing, as well as presenting art and cultural programmes, jazz, and world music as a former Radio Presenter for Passion FM99.5.

This exciting learning journey has never stopped! Angie loves learning, and keeping herself updated with neuroscience, psychology, and psychotherapy. Her other interests are history, architecture, art, psychological dramas and period films, animals, nature, and music. In her life journey, she hopes to support and inspire people to grow, to learn, to love, and to stay connected to themselves, their relationships, and their communities.