About Intern Therapists

Supervised Clinical Training

ArtPlay Haus is committed to supporting the next generation of therapists through a mentorship-driven training model. Our intern therapists are master’s-level trainees and students from accredited training programmes and institutions such as Singapore University of Social Sciences, James Cook University, and Play Therapy International.

Intern therapists are currently completing supervised clinical training and practicum requirements as part of their professional development. They work under the guidance and supervision of experienced clinicians to support safe, ethical, and thoughtful care.

Our intern therapists:

  • Are enrolled in Counselling, Play Therapy, Social Work, or Psychology programmes
  • Have completed substantial academic coursework and foundational clinical training, including evidence-based therapeutic approaches
  • Receive ongoing supervision and mentorship
  • Are passionate about providing compassionate and attentive care

 

The Role of Supervision

Supervision is an important part of the clinical training process. Intern therapists meet regularly with experienced and qualified clinical supervisors to reflect on their therapeutic work, gain insight, deepen clinical understanding, refine therapeutic skills, and support ethical and effective practice. 

Discussions during supervision are conducted with care and confidentiality, with identifying details protected.

This collaborative process helps ensure that clients receive thoughtful, well-supported, and ethically grounded care throughout their therapeutic journey.

Clients may choose to work with an intern therapist as a more accessible therapy option, with sessions conducted under ongoing clinical supervision and mentorship.

 
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Our Intern Therapists

Ms. Dionne Teo

Master of Counselling (Candidate) 
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology

About Dionne
Dionne brings in-depth experience from her work as an early interventionist, where she supports young children with learning and developmental needs through targeted, play-based strategies. Her work focuses on building communication, social, emotional, and everyday functional skills in developmentally responsive ways. She also has over five years of experience working in a private holistic healthcare clinic, where her primary focus was supporting children and their families. Across these roles, she has developed a strong appreciation for each child’s unique developmental, emotional and relational needs. 

Dionne is deeply committed to a child-centered, strengths-based approach, grounded in a strong belief in power of play. She has a particular interest in supporting preschool-aged children during their formative years, using innovative and developmentally appropriate play-based strategies to help children who struggle with anxiety, life transitions and behavioral regulation. Through a range of expressive mediums, such as toys, sand, figurines, as well as art, a safe and engaging space can be created for children to explore emotions, build regulation skills, and express themselves in ways that feel natural and meaningful.

Ms. Joanne Wee

Master of Counselling (Candidate)
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology

About Joanne
Joanne brings extensive experience developed over many years across school, community, and volunteer settings. For almost a decade, she has supported children in primary schools through storytelling, imaginative play, and structured games, giving her a deep understanding of how children communicate learn, and make sense of the world through play. This has helped her develop skills at meeting children where they are developmentally and emotionally.

Joanne is passionate about using play-based and creative approaches to support primary school–aged children. She believes that play is a child’s natural language, and she uses mediums such as storytelling, toys, sand, drawing, and somatic play to help children express feelings that may be difficult to put into words. She has a particular interest in working with children experiencing anxiety, emotional regulation issues, and school refusal. She will gently help your child build emotional awareness, coping skills, and confidence, while also working collaboratively with you. She is committed to creating a supportive, playful, and nurturing therapeutic space where children can feel empowered, understood, and capable of growth.

Ms. Melissa Cheok

Master of Counselling (Candidate)
Bachelor of Science, Psychology (Health, Performance & Well-Being)

About Melissa
Melissa has a strong interest in the working with children and spent more than 5 years supporting children as a volunteer in her church’s children’s ministry and child protection officer with MSF. These experience with children who have emotional and relational needs has strengthened her capacity for emotional attunement, as she witnesses how children may not always be able to express themselves verbally.

Melissa is deeply interested in supporting children who feel overwhelmed by socio-emotional challenges and life stressors. She is particularly drawn to attachment-informed strategies and child-centered work, where she views children’s behaviours as signs of unmet emotional needs rather than problems. She believes that meeting children in their natural mode of communication – play – provides a safe and developmentally-appropriate space for healing and change to occur. She uses symbolic and expressive mediums such as puppets, toys, sand, and drawing to help children feel safe and understood, building their capacity for self-expression and ultimately, self-regulation. She is strongly committed to work collaboratively with parents to co-create a supportive environment that will empower their children towards emotional resilience.

Ms. Charlene Kuah

Diploma in Play Therapy (Candidate) 
Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills
Diploma in Counselling

About Charlene
With Charlene’s background in communications and the arts, she is interested in creative expression, in all its colourful forms and believes that when supported within a safe space, expression can be the ingredients for healing and transformation.

After leaving her full time job as an advertising creative in 2019, Charlene decided to explore the helping profession as she has always had an interest in the human condition, and felt called to be of service to others. Her training follows a holistic, integrative play therapy model that views children through a multidimensional lens—developmental, relational, social, and physiological— honouring the whole child and the complex nature of healing.

Guided by each child’s readiness, individual needs and unique context, Charlene strives to work flexibly, non-directively and directively, to ensure every child is met where they are. She strives to offer a space where children can be their most authentic selves, and feel seen, heard, and understood in all their parts.