Psychology Service

Psychology Service offers comprehensive assessments and personalised therapy to meet the unique psychosocial, emotional, behavioural, and cognitive needs of women, adolescents and, children at each stage of their lives.

Available training programs with Psychology Service can be found here.
 

Women’s Services

Psychological services are offered with the aim of empower women to cope with their psychological and/or emotional difficulties.

Our psychologists work with patients within an atmosphere of trust and confidentiality, assessing and offering psychotherapy tailored to meet the patient’s specific needs.

We offer in-patient and out-patient services, supporting women with the following:

• Moderate to severe emotional/mood difficulties
• Clinically significant levels of grief and bereavement
• Interpersonal stressors sexual health and fertility concerns
• Menopause
• Weight management concerns
• Coping with medical conditions
• Mental health problems

To make an appointment for yourself to see a Psychologist at KKH, you would first need to be seen by a medical doctor at KKH. They will assess you and if appropriate, make the referral for you to be seen by our psychologist.

Children’s Services

Psychology Service supports children and adolescents between seven and eighteen years of age. We provide services for a wide range of complex emotional, behavioural, and learning concerns which are associated with a medical condition that may be causing personal distress or interfering with daily life and/or social functioning.

We provide both Psychological Assessments and Psychological Therapy.

Psychological and Neuropsychological Assessments

We provide psychological /neuro-psychological assessments for children with:

• Intellectual/educational concerns related to a medical condition
• Medical conditions that may affect learning (e.g. epilepsy, brain tumours, traumatic brain injury)
• School readiness and school placement issues associated with medical needs

Comprehensive cognitive, neuropsychological, educational, developmental, and achievement tests are administered to evaluate a child’s intellectual, learning ability, and social sufficiency. This will allow the psychologist to recommend interventions that support each child to reach his/her fullest potential.

Psychological Intervention

We also provide psychological interventions to help children, adolescents, and their families cope with psychological and/or emotional difficulties as a result of daily stressors, chronic illnesses, and physical disabilities. These interventions are provided in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Some of the common concerns that we treat are:

• Behavioural problems
• Moderate to severe emotional/mood difficulties (e.g., depression, anxiety disorders, anger management difficulties)
• Deliberate self-harm
• Eating disorders or weight management issues
• Poor coping with interpersonal stressors
• Coping with chronic illness (e.g., diabetes, neurogenic bladder bowel, cancer, genetic conditions, skin conditions, cleft and craniofacial conditions etc.)
• Chronic pain
• Tics

Our psychologists are also an essential part of various multidisciplinary clinics that support a holistic approach to patient care. These include:

• Chronic Pain Clinic
• Dermatology Clinic
• Neurogenic Bladder Clinic
• Diabetes Clinic
• Eating Disorders
  
  *Please speak to your doctor for more information on the eligibility criteria for referral to these specialised clinics.
  

To make an appointment for your child to see a Psychologist at KKH, they would first need to be seen by a medical doctor at KKH. They will assess your child and if appropriate, make the referral for your child to be seen by our psychologist.
 

What to expect at a Psychology Session

The first consultation with a psychologist comprises an intake interview to gain a better understanding of the patient’s difficulties. Parents or caregivers are strongly encouraged to accompany children and adolescent patients for their appointments.

Following the intake interview, a treatment plan is typically recommended. As psychological problems are usually rooted in many causes, treatment would usually span across several sessions. Should psychological assessment be required, each session may last two to three hours.

For children and adolescents, parents are actively involved during the assessment and treatment process. Consultation and liaison are also often coordinated with the school, other healthcare professionals and any other relevant stakeholders to better understand the child/adolescent from different perspectives.
 

Resources

Online library materials

Media Features

News

• Meet the all-women KKH team helping children manage chronic pain, the invisible condition (September 2025)
  
• The 29-year old who spent 12 years grappling with a hair-pulling disorder and finally shaved it all off (August 2025)
• New initiative to help young people with poor mental health when ‘red flags’ appear (June 2025)
• Poetry Therapy: How writing poems helps both patients and healthcare workers (March 2024)
• Increasing awareness of psychosocial needs for children with cancer and their family, CNA 93.8 Radio (November 2022)
• Chronic pain in children, teenagers poorly understood and needs to be taken seriously (October 2022)
• KKH seeing rise in children seeking help for chronic pain, with 130 cases last year (May 2022)
• Losing weight and Healthy Body Image, Channel 8 news (April 2022)
• Painful sex need not tear marriages apart (October 2021).
• When sex hurts. More women in Singapore seek help for Vaginismus (October 2021).
• Interview with psychologist Joelle Wang on phobias in children, causes and how they develop, as well as treatment options (April 2021; 35:43 - 43:35 in the video)

Online media

• What do psychologists do
• Psychologists answering Mental Health questions:
  Part 1
  Part 2
  Part 3
• Tips on Building Resilience in Your Child (October 2018)

Special Delivery (KKH’s corporate e-publication for professionals in community health)

• Debunking the Myths and Misconceptions of Adolescence (September 2025)
• Addressing the psychosocial needs of children and families coping with childhood cancer (September 2022)
• Managing chronic pain in children – A biopsychosocial approach (September 2021)
• Empowering Families Coping with Childhood Cancers (August 2019)