Joseph Rajagopal

Joseph is a Professional Counsellor with Singapore Counselling Centre (SCC). He has 15 years of experience in counselling and psychotherapy. He is a Registered Counsellor and Registered Clinical Supervisor with Singapore Association for Counselling and provides clinical supervision for counsellors to develop their counselling skills and knowledge.

He has extensive experience working with youth, adults, couples and families. He has done a lot of work in helping them to overcome their mental, emotional, behavioral and relationship problems and live healthier and happier lives.

He provides counselling services to clients (youth counselling, individual counselling, couple counselling, marriage counselling, family therapy) for a wide variety of issues related to trauma (traumatic experiences), rape/molestation, grief related to relationships break-up/divorce/loss/death, stress, anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, phobias, self-esteem, depression, self-harming behavior, suicide ideation, suicidal behavior, alcohol/drug/gambling/porn/sex addiction, anger-management, child abuse, family/domestic violence, marital conflicts, interpersonal relationship, extra-marital affairs/infidelity, parenting, child management, teenage problems, delinquency, bullying, school refusal, academic under-achievement, effeminacy, gender/sexual orientation, and workplace/career issues.

Joseph is a highly trained professional. He received advanced training (specialization) in Family therapy and Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy from Swinburne University of Technology (Australia). He has received training in trauma work from Arizona Trauma Institute (USA) and is a certified Clinical Trauma Specialist. He also employs concepts from different schools of thought in the counselling arena and uses therapeutic techniques from Family Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Transactional Analysis, Gestalt Therapy, Redecision Therapy, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Narrative Therapy and Reality Therapy in his counselling efforts. He also provides psycho-education for his clients to help them learn about the nature of their problems and how to manage them.

He has several success stories of clients who have made significant progress in their lives through his relentless counselling efforts. He strongly believes that every client has the potential to change and improve in their areas of difficulty with adequate support and appropriate treatment.

His motto is:

“I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become”
Carl Jung – Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.