Lim Wei Ping, June

• Conducted thorough psychological assessments using various testing methods to provide accurate diagnoses and inform treatment plan.
• Developed customized treatment plans for clients, addressing their unique psychological needs and goals.
• Specialized in seeing both children (e.g. Trichotillomania, depression, anxiety, skin disorders) and adults (e.g. depression, anxiety, OCD, trauma, chronic pain, geriatric and skin disorders).
• Improved patient outcomes by utilizing evidence-based therapeutic approaches in individual therapy sessions.
• Contributed to team development by providing educational talks during quarterly staff meetings.
• Delivered mental health talks to organizations and the public. Topics of talks include: Stress Management, Anger Management, Managing Anxiety, Resolving Workplace Conflicts and Mindfulness.
• Established a strong professional network with local healthcare providers, enhancing referral partnerships and improving accessibility to mental health services for patients in need.

Clinical Workload:

• Conducted thorough neuropsychological assessments in both inpatient and outpatient settings using various testing methods to provide accurate diagnoses and inform treatment strategies.
• Trained to use the following tests: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Wechsler Memory Scale, Neuropsychological Assessment Battery and Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System.
• Conducted individual psychotherapy sessions in both inpatient and outpatient settings and specialized in seeing the following populations: chronic pain, depression, anxiety, OCD, geriatric, post-amputation and skin disorders.
• Organized, planned and conducted cognitive rehabilitation and cognitive retraining interventions for clients with mild cognitive impairment or dementia.
• Collaborated with other healthcare professionals such as physiotherapists, doctors, nurses, speech therapists, dieticians and occupational therapists to coordinate care plans and implement continuity of care.
• Led group therapy sessions for clients with chronic pain and Rheumatoid Arthritis. Sessions were CBT and ACT-based.
• Planned and conducted mindfulness group sessions for hospital staff during Covid-19 and for caregivers for clients with dementia.

Teaching and Training:

• Delivered public talks and workshops to both internal and external stakeholders on the following topics: stress management, sleep, anxiety, anger management, mindfulness and resilience.
• Trainer for National Healthcare Group (NHG) workplace mental health program.
• Conducted lectures for Advanced Diploma in Nursing Programme (Gerontology) at Nanyang Polytechnic.
• Planned, organized and conducted public education workshops on the following topics:

> Dementia and delirium workshop for healthcare professionals including doctors, nurses, allied health.

>Reminiscence and life review workshop jointly with occupational therapist for healthcare professionals working with patients with dementia

- Mental wellness at the workplace workshop for staff of external organizations.

Research and Consultancy:

• Supervised research assistant for research projects.
• Supervised Associate Psychologists and Co-supervised Clinical Psychology Masters Intern.
• Advanced research efforts within the organization by collaborating on grant applications or conducting independent studies aimed at improving treatment efficacy and this includes the following projects:
• March 2018 to March 2022: Principal investigator for project entitled:

- Assessment of depression and anxiety in patients post major lower-limb amputation in Tan Tock Seng Hospital. To assess the prevalence of patients with depression and anxiety in patients post major lower-limb amputation and provide early psychological intervention where necessary.

- This involves supervising research assistant with data collection, analysing data, writing a final report and presenting the project at the clinical research committee meeting.

• Co-Principal investigator for project entitled: Development of pre-dementia training kit.

Developed an app to help patients learn cognitive retraining strategies via their phone remotely. November 2016- March 2019.

• Study put up for poster /oral presentation at the 7th Singapore Rehabilitation Conference & 7thAsian Prosthetics and Orthotics Scientific Meeting.

Supervisor: Dr Konstadina Griva

Project title: The effectiveness of self-management interventions to improve outcomes in established and incident hemodialysis patients.

• Coordinate patient recruitment
• Conduct patient interviews
• Facilitate intervention sessions every week (based on cognitive behavioral therapy principles)
• Data entry and analysis using SPSS
• Literature searches
• Writing up of interim reports
• Attend multidisciplinary meetings to discuss progress of the project and provide feedback on intervention sessions

Supervisor: Dr Philip Yap

Project title: Profiling the Dementia Caregiver

• Conduct psychological assessment of patients
• Coordinate participant recruitment
• Analysis of data and literature review
• Put up papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals- 3 published papers.
• Observe consultations- twice weekly- Doctors, nurses and psychologist see patients and their caregivers