Hui Shan is the co-founder as well as the senior counsellor at Grace Oasis Counselling Services. Formerly a full-time MOE teacher at a local junior college, Hui Shan had been teaching chemistry for close to ten years. Apart from teaching, her other role in school was a teacher counsellor. Through helping her students, she was aspired to answer a deeper calling to impart life skills and help people find back themselves through the sacred work in counselling. She sees that as the pace of living quicken, the overemphasis of performance has subtly impacted youth of this generation. More are displaying a draw towards perfectionism, often overwhelmed by the fear of failure. Her passion in working with youth and young adults led her to a career transition to equip herself with formal counselling training.

 

Graduated with a Masters of Arts in Counselling, Hui Shan is effectively bilingual to conduct counselling sessions in both English and Mandarin. She has accumulated a wide range of experiences from counselling youths at local junior college, young adults from Agape Counselling Centre in Malaysia, Special Needs children and adolescents from Special Education School in Singapore and adults with mental health concerns from a local mental health day rehabilitation centre. 

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Her counselling approach is primarily informed by evidence-based approach such as Choice Theory Reality Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. She is able to integrate other approaches such as Sand Play & Expressive therapy to help her clients better express their needs and wants, identify their triggers, and learning new coping behaviours and habits that are healthy and helpful for change and growth. In her free time, Hui Shan enjoys art and find joy drawing and doodling. She sees this as a beautiful way for one to connect to one's inner world. She also enjoys travelling, going to new places, meeting new people and experiencing new cultures.