Dr Sam (Wee Hong) Tan
Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist
Centre for Human Potential
Brisbane, QLD 4000
In Person + Telehealth
Philosophy & Vision
Sam is a Clinical Psychologist with special interests in working to support: Clients who wish to explore and address deeper and root causes of their emotional struggles, Clients who have experienced trauma, Clients wishing to successfully achieve healthy behaviour changes, Adults from the LGBTQ community. With his down-to-earth, very open and warm approach, Sam works collaboratively with his clients to raise awareness of patterns within themselves and patterns of relating with others.
Background
Sam is a clinical psychologist who has 13 years of experience as a mental-health professional. He received his Doctorate in Clinical and Health Psychology from the University of Queensland. He has experience working as psychologist in government, forensic, not-for-profit, hospital / public-health settings. Sam is a also a Board-approved clinical supervisor and provides supervision for post-graduate clinical psychology students and early-career psychologists.
Services
Sam provides both short-term and longer-term therapies to meet his clients' needs. He also provides clinical supervision and has a particular interest in training and supervising early-career psychologists. He is also experienced in facilitating professional-training workshops for health professionals and workshops for members of the public.
Quality Provision
Sam's practice is client-oriented. He is careful to understand his clients expectations of therapy and him as their psychologists. He consistently and constantly asks for feedback to ascertain if therapy is meeting his clients' needs, if therapy is aligned with clients' needed speed for change and most importantly, if the therapeutic relationship between his clients remains facilitative for emotional transformation.
Areas of Special Interest
Accreditations
- Doctor of Psychology (Clin & Health Psychology) - 2012 - University of Queensland
- Bachelor of Social Science (1st Cl Hons) - 2006 - National University of Singapore
- EMDR Level 1 & 2 - 2009
Modalities
CBT - EMDR - Emotionally Focused Therapy - Existential - Experiential - Gestalt - Mindfulness - Person Centred - Process Oriented - Psychodynamic
Therapy Approach
Sam understands how emotions work. He knows that all emotions, even the difficult ones, are a rich source of information about what is important in our lives. He loves helping his clients change their painful emotions and to ultimately uncover what those emotions are telling them that they are needing but missing. Sam do this by closely guiding their clients through a process of emotional awareness, emotional withstanding and emotional understanding.
Sam also appreciates that emotions and relationships go hand-in-hand - they affect each other very closely. This means that strong positive relationships help us weather tough emotions and transform them, and transformed emotions will enrich our relationships.