About Us
Alicia Pon Ph.D
RSW, RPT-S, SEP™
Clinical Director
Alicia is the founding member of the company. She is a Registered Counselor with over 30 years of clinical and academic experience in child, adolescent, and adult mental health, trauma recovery, and developmental challenges. Alicia holds a PhD in Social Work from the University of Hong Kong, where her research focused on the effectiveness of a gameplay intervention for adults with terminal illness. She also earned a Master’s degree in Child and Adolescent Health from the University of Sydney. She has practiced across Singapore, Hong Kong, and Mainland China, working in community, private practice, and educational settings. Her therapeutic offerings include direct psychotherapy, trauma intensives, somatic work, and play and sandplay therapy for children, adolescents and adults.
Alicia’s overarching clinical framework integrates person-centered therapy, depth psychology, symbol work, somatic approaches, and neurobiological frameworks. She finds that these pillars synthesize seamlessly—each informing and complementing the others as she work alongside clients and their families as they deal with their life challenges. These approaches empower clients to explore their personal narratives and make sense of their experiences in ways that feel authentic and meaningful to them.
Beyond her clinical practice, Alicia is also an academic and clinical supervisor passionate about empowering mental health professionals. She equips them with knowledge and skills through a person-centered, symbol work, body-oriented and neurobiological lens. Alicia teaches postgraduate courses with universities and training providers across the Asia-Pacific region.
Who Alicia Works With
Alicia works with young children, adolescents, and adults who are navigating a range of life challenges, including:
• Acute and complex trauma
• Adoption and attachment issues
• Chronic illness
• Developmental stressors
• Divorce and separation
• Grief and loss
• Parent-child relationship difficulties
Training & Frameworks that Alicia adopts
• Analytical Psychology
• Pre and peri-natal Psychology
• Child Centered Play Therapy
• Synergetic Play Therapy
• Sensorimotor Art Therapy
• Jungian Sandplay Therapy
• Expressive therapies with children, adolescents and teens
• Somatic Experiencing™
• Trauma through a Child’s Eyes
• Touch Skills for Trauma
• Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Therapy
Tim Carey Ph.D
Clinical Director
Tim is the founding member of the company. He is focused on managing the clinical operations of the organization, as well as delivering career counseling services to teenagers and tertiary-level students who are considering various directions for their future.
With an emphasis on education, Tim explores with the student various options based on their likes, dislikes and life goals.
Far from prescribing a path for the student, Tim uses questioning techniques based on counseling theory and many years’ experience in assessment and coaching of professionals from a variety of industries, to work with the student to uncover their own path forward.
An Industrial/Organizational Psychologist by training, Tim also taught that subject for 14 years in the Psychology Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, to both graduates and undergraduates. An expert in the selection and development of managers, in 2010 he published a chapter on selecting in a global context based on his work in different regions. Tim also is a skilled facilitator and coach and provides services in both areas across Asia Pacific.
While teaching at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tim also counseled hundreds of students around career options and opportunities. Characterized by “out of the box” thinking, Tim tries to consider the skills offered by the student rather than a narrow reading of the student’s area of study. Providing insights and opening the minds of the students have been the hallmarks of his approach.
For the past 20 years Tim also has delivered assessment and talent development services to MNCs across Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Over that time he has interviewed, assessed and coached thousands of executives and senior managers in dozens of Global Fortune 500, multinational companies, including Coca-Cola, Walmart, Credit Suisse, Dell, Roche, Societe Generale, Shell, HP, The Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, EADS and Colgate-Palmolive.
Tim is very familiar with Asia, having lived in Hong Kong since 2001 (with a one-year stint in Shanghai) and having obtained permanent residency there. Tim graduated from the University of South Florida in the United States, with an M.A. and Ph.D. degree in Industrial/ Organizational Psychology.