About

A short story about us

About Hearth

The name HEARTH came to us in a serendipitous way ~ a constellation derived from the words Heart and Earth.

As we ponder over the words Heart and Earth, we notice how both words comprise of the same alphabets. This was when our name "HEARTH" was born!

For us, HEARTH thus represents a metaphorical connection to nature, and evokes an imagery of warmth, safety, and comfort.

Our Philosophy of care

We believe healing involves the heart and body, as well as the mind.

At Hearth, we offer a warm, supportive space where clients can work through life’s challenges and reconnect with nature, indoors and outdoors.

Inspired by nature’s nurturing presence, we bring together psychological therapy and ecotherapy to support each person’s healing journey.

We believe that psychological healing occurs through individuals’ hearts and bodies, not just their minds.

Meet Soak Mun

An authentic and compassionate therapist who holds genuine interest in helping her clients choose their own path, learn new skills, and seek the balance and growth that they desire in their lives.

Founder of Hearth Ecotherapy and Psychology Practice, her passion and love for nature inspires her to incorporate ecotherapy as one of her key modalities in the therapeutic space.

Professional Experience

Registered Clinical Psychologist in Singapore and Australia

Soak Mun has worked in varied roles as a clinical psychologist and clinical supervisor in private, government and community settings for more than 17 years. She also had a 1-year stint as a Mental Health Officer with Medicines Sans Frontiers, working with flood survivors and HIV+/resistant TB patients in remote parts of India.

As an integrative therapist, she also incorporates various therapeutic approaches (including CBT, EMDR, TIST, Mindfulness, Internal Family Systems concepts, Schema therapy, trauma-informed and attachment-based practices) and operates from a strength-based, person-centred approach.

Alongside her clinical practice, she has also been providing clinical supervision to psychologists, social workers and counsellors, including professionals working in children’s residential care. She is deeply passionate about supporting helping professionals in their work, growth and wellbeing.

Qualification

Masters of Psychology (Clinical) – James Cook University, Singapore
Bachelor of Psychology (Hons) - Murdoch University, Australia
Bachelor of Accountancy (Hons)- NTU
Certificate as an Ecotherapist, Facilitator of Reconnection with Nature (International Training in Applied Ecopsychology endorsed by International Ecopsychology Society, IES)
TIST (Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment) certified

"A warm, reflective style that supports clients to feel safe, understood, and gently challenged."

The transition into nature

Beyond the traditional consulting room

In recent years, Soak Mun rekindled her love and passion for nature and started bringing therapy outdoors. She has found this recent shift immensely inspiring and healing for both her clients and herself. With the launch of ecotherapy practice, Soak Mun hopes to eventually support children, youths and adults in Residential or Rehabilitation settings in Singapore, using ecotherapy as a way to support long term change.

Other than the typical mental health conditions (e.g., depression, anxiety) and life transition issues, Soak Mun is passionate about working with adults who has complex PTSD or experienced developmental trauma in their lives. She hopes that such work may contribute to the reduction of intergenerational trauma between generations.

She is also conversant in working with people who identified themselves with traits of personality disorders or on the dissociative disorder continuum and works from a relational and attachment-based lens.

In recent years, Soak Mun has also taken special interests in supporting helping professionals with their own personal growth or in providing clinical supervision to fellow therapists.

She believes strongly in capacity building within the mental health field and thus, offered sliding scale rates to helpers within the community, so that they can continue with the good work they do in the community.

Having had the privilege of working with counsellors and art therapists in her last clinical supervision role, Soak Mun is also keenly interested in working with process aspect of supervisees’ therapeutic work within the clinical supervision space.

Beyond direct clinical work