We support adults stuck in years of mental and emotional labour, struggle and habits, who feel overwhelmed, exhausted, and burned out.
We provide a safe space for you to metabolise feelings of anxiety, anger, shame, guilt and other complex emotions, and work with you to build emotional and nervous system strategies as you navigate through personal and environmental challenges.
We understand emotional and sensory processing differences and sensitivities across a spectrum of neurotypes, supporting you in grief and trauma (both individual and intergenerational).
Our therapeutic techniques include integrative approaches in:
- Lived experienced-informed therapy
- Rogerian Therapy
- Existential Therapy
- Parts (including body-based) Work
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (neurodivergent-friendly)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Who inspires us
Sonny Jane Wise: Lived Experience Educator
David Gray-Hammond: Emergent Divergence
Robert Chapman: Neurodiverse Age
Our Mission and Advocacy
As a neurodiversity-affirming practice, we regard neuronormativity as a socially constructed, privileged set of cognitive assumptions that deems itself superior or acceptable while stigmatising and erasing alternative social behaviors, attitudes, affect and action. This is discriminatory and harmful to individuals of different identities or neurotypes that do not fit the norm. The loss of agency, shame, isolation and poverty suffered by these individuals point to an unyielding societal environment that demands standardised economic productivity and social normativity.
We disagree with the economic utility or “corporate superpower” approach in recognising only certain types of neurodivergence while invalidating “unproductive” neurodivergence. Ecological mismatches with an individual’s unique neuro-somatic wiring lead to distress and disability which need to be critically addressed in Singapore. We are currently working on a neurodiversity framework that will (1) address social and economic inequities faced by neurodivergents, (2) outline niche interests, (3) propose non-normative metrics, and (4) map community connections where neurodivergents thrive.
Resources and recommended websites
AAASG: ADHD, Autism, AuDHD SG (Community support group)
Peaceful Audacity (Resources and personalised tools for ADHD, autistic and AuDHD women)
Versilient (Coaching through system design)
Testimonials
“I was introduced to Dawn by a friend at a low point in my life and Dawn truly did help me turn it around completely by giving me concrete ways of dealing with my issues, walking me through it while being understanding, caring and empathetic. Dawn truly become a good friend and felt like family, and she has had an indescribable impact in my life. I now feel stronger and better equipped to handle things that life may throw at me but whenever I have an issue I know she’ll be there. I truly prefer her approach to therapy over the others I’ve encountered and I would highly recommend her services.”
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“I met Dawn in November 2025. I had post-delirium burnout, carried so much self hate, treatment-resistant depression, and intergenerational trauma. Dawn is like a Swiss army knife, she has the ability to fully grasp the landscape of a man carrying concurrent unresolved mental health pain, and yet has the tenderness and gentle precision of a scalpel. Her sessions seamlessly helped me turn from a hopeless self-hating shut-in into one now hopeful about the future. She fully adheres to professional, legal and ethical standards, yet at the same time is pragmatic enough to comprehend the landscape and state that I was in, providing me with the ultimate safe space to vent out my pain. If you’re looking for a counsellor who does not see you as a case number, who is caring and genuine, go with Dawn.”
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Dawn Heng is our Principal Counsellor. Dawn has worked with local and international individuals from diverse racial, cultural, religious and irreligious backgrounds, neurotypes, gender and sexual identities and orientation. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling Psychology from College of Allied Educators (Singapore) and an MA (Distinction) in Integrative Counselling from Leeds Beckett University (UK).