潘名恩
Ms. Elizabeth Pan (she/her)
MA.(Counselling) Edinburgh
SAC Registered Counsellor (Singapore)
Psychotherapist and Counsellor
Specialist Areas
Adolescents, Adults & Couples
Trauma and Complex Presentations
Attachment and Relationship Difficulties
Anxiety and Depression
Workplace Stress and Burnout
Grief and Loss
Life Transitions and Identity
Cross-Cultural Adjustment
Couples and Premarital Counselling
Memberships
Member of the Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC)
Elizabeth is a psychotherapist and registered counsellor with ten years of clinical experience, including more than eight years of post-qualification practice, across Taiwan, the United Kingdom and Singapore. She works with adolescents, adults and couples from diverse cultural backgrounds, offering psychotherapy in English and Mandarin.
Elizabeth began her professional journey in Taiwan, working with children with special educational needs and their families in a psychological counselling centre. She later completed her Master of Counselling at the University of Edinburgh, where her professional training and experience of living abroad deepened her understanding of the emotional and relational experiences involved in adapting to a different culture.
After moving to Singapore, Elizabeth spent three years in community services, supporting individuals and families while collaborating closely with clinics and community professionals. She subsequently moved into private clinical practice, working primarily with expatriates and clients from diverse cultural backgrounds. Across these settings, she developed a particular interest in how early relationships, family dynamics, cultural expectations and life experiences can shape a person’s emotional world and ways of relating to others.
This understanding continues to inform Elizabeth’s therapeutic approach. Trained in and deeply influenced by psychodynamic and person-centred traditions, she helps clients explore how earlier relationships, emotional experiences and longstanding patterns may continue to shape their emotions, choices and relationships in the present. Depending on each client’s needs and therapeutic goals, she also draws from her training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), DBT-informed skills, mindfulness, grief and loss, and expressive arts and play-based approaches. She continues to deepen her clinical training in attachment and complex trauma.
Elizabeth works with individuals experiencing trauma, anxiety and depression, relationship difficulties, workplace stress, grief and major life transitions. Her experience in workplace and onsite counselling has also given her insight into the emotional demands of contemporary working life and the ways work, identity and relationships can intersect.
She also works with couples experiencing recurring conflict, emotional disconnection, difficulties with trust and relationship transitions. Elizabeth particularly enjoys supporting couples preparing for marriage or navigating the early years of married life, helping them understand their relational patterns, communicate more openly and build a stronger foundation together.
Having lived and worked in Taiwan, the United Kingdom and Singapore, Elizabeth is particularly attentive to the ways culture, language and family expectations can shape a person’s inner world and relationships. She understands that some experiences can be difficult to fully express across languages and cultural contexts. Clients are welcome to speak in English or Mandarin, or move naturally between both languages during sessions.
Elizabeth’s therapeutic style is warm, thoughtful and gently direct. She aims to create a space where clients can feel understood while also exploring difficult emotions, recurring patterns and parts of their experience that may be harder to approach alone. Through greater understanding of themselves and their relationships, she supports clients in developing more freedom and choice in how they relate to themselves, others and the lives they want to build.
Outside her clinical work, Elizabeth recharges through Pilates, spending time with loved ones and the small rituals of everyday life that bring a sense of grounding and restoration.
Elizabeth 是一名心理治疗师及注册心理咨询师,拥有十年的临床工作经验,其中包括超过八年的专业执业经历。她曾于台湾、英国及新加坡生活与工作,并以中文及英文,为来自不同文化背景的青少年、成人及伴侣提供心理咨询与治疗。
Elizabeth 的专业生涯始于台湾,早期在心理咨询中心陪伴有特殊教育需求的儿童及其家庭。之后,她前往英国爱丁堡大学(University of Edinburgh)完成心理咨询硕士学位。专业训练以及亲身在海外生活的经验,让她更深入地理解,身处不同文化与环境时,一个人的情绪、关系与适应历程可能经历的变化。
来到新加坡后,Elizabeth 曾于社区服务领域工作三年,为不同生命阶段的个人及家庭提供支持,并与诊所及社区中的不同专业人员密切合作。之后,她进入私人临床工作,主要服务居住于新加坡的外籍人士及不同文化背景的个案。这些不同场域的工作经验,也让她逐渐关注早期关系、家庭互动、文化期待与生命经验,如何塑造一个人的内在世界,以及与他人建立关系的方式。
这样的理解也成为 Elizabeth 临床工作的基础。她主要接受**心理动力取向(Psychodynamic)及以人为中心取向(Person-Centred)**的专业训练,陪伴来访者探索过去的关系与情感经验,以及长久形成的内在模式,如何持续影响当下的情绪、选择与人际关系。依照每位来访者不同的需要与治疗目标,她也会灵活运用接纳与承诺疗法(ACT)、认知行为疗法(CBT)、DBT 相关技巧、正念、悲伤与失落,以及表达性艺术与游戏取向等方法,并持续深化依恋关系与复杂性创伤领域的临床训练。
Elizabeth 陪伴的议题包括创伤、焦虑与抑郁、关系困扰、职场压力、悲伤失落,以及人生不同阶段的重要转变。多年职场与企业驻点咨询的经验,也让她对现代工作生活中的情绪压力,以及工作、身份认同与人际关系之间的相互影响,有更深入的理解。
在伴侣咨询中,Elizabeth 陪伴伴侣面对反复出现的冲突、情感疏离、信任困难,以及关系不同阶段所带来的转变。她尤其喜欢陪伴准备进入婚姻,或正在适应婚后初期生活的伴侣,协助双方理解彼此的关系与互动模式、更坦诚地沟通,并共同建立更稳固的关系基础。
曾在台湾、英国及新加坡生活与工作的经验,也让 Elizabeth 特别留意文化、语言及家庭期待如何影响一个人的内在世界与人际关系。她理解,有些感受与经验并不容易跨越语言与文化被完整表达。因此,在咨询过程中,来访者可以使用中文或英文,也可以自然地在两种语言之间转换。
Elizabeth 的治疗风格温暖、细腻,也带着温和而坦诚的直接。她希望提供一个让来访者感到被理解的空间,同时陪伴他们逐渐靠近那些较难独自面对的情绪、反复出现的模式与生命经验。透过对自己与关系更深入的理解,来访者也能逐渐拥有更多选择,以更适合自己的方式与自己、与他人相处。
在临床工作之外,Elizabeth 喜欢透过普拉提、与亲友相聚,以及生活中简单而熟悉的小日常,让自己重新找到安定与休息的空间。