About Us
Tim Carey Ph.D
Clinical Director
Dr. Carey 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, Dr. Carey explores with the student various options based on their likes, dislikes and life goals.
Far from prescribing a path for the student, Dr. Carey 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.
Alicia Pon Ph.D
RSW, RPT-S, SEP™
Clinical Consultant
For the last 20 years; 16 years in Hong Kong and 4 years in Singapore, Dr Pon have been providing care and support for individuals and families through counselling, psychotherapy and psychoeducation. Her experiences and specializations include working with clinical and developmental issues such as complex trauma (developmental, medical, pre & peri natal trauma), children and adolescent mental health, divorce & separation, coping with chronic and terminal illness, grief & loss, adoption & attachment, parent-child relationship, developmental stresses and adjustment issues.
Dr Pon was on staff and served as an Adjunct Faculty Member with the University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Shue Yan University. Since returning to Singapore in 2017, she have been serving full time as a Faculty Member with the National University of Singapore. She lectures on both the undergraduate and post-graduate modules on topics such as children and youth mental health issues, clinical skills such as play and sandplay therapy, and trauma work. Given her extensive clinical and academic experiences, she also provide case consultation and training to practicing mental health professionals on working with children, young persons and families.
Dr Pon graduated from The University of Hong Kong with a PhD in Social Work. She also attained her Master degree in Child and Adolescent Health from University of Sydney. Her specialized professional training is in Child and Adolescent, Play Therapy, Sandplay Therapy, Sensori-Motor Art Therapy, Somatic Experiencing™ (SE), Analytical Psychology, Touch Skills and Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Therapy.
Dr Pon is a Registered Play Therapy – Supervisor for both the Association of Play Therapy in Singapore and the United States. She is also a Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioner with the SE Trauma Institute, an Expressive Sandplay Therapist with the Expressive Therapies Institute of Australia, and a Clinical Member with the Singapore Association for Counsellors.