Daniela Ong

Daniela is a Clinical Mental Health Therapist who walks alongside young adults and adults navigating life’s challenges. She holds a Master of Counselling from the Singapore University of Social Sciences and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Murdoch University. She is a Provisional Clinical Member with the Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC) and provides therapy in English.

Her journey into this work is shaped by both lived experience and years of witnessing how profoundly someone’s inner world can shift when met with genuine presence and understanding. In her own life, moments of being truly seen offered a quiet sense of relief and hope – a feeling she carries into her work, hoping clients will feel similarly held in her care.

Over the last seven years in the social service sector, including four years specialising in mental health, she has supported young adults and adults through a wide range of mental health concerns. These include childhood trauma, attachment and relational wounds, difficulties with emotional regulation, depression, anxiety, grief, stress, life transitions, burnout, and relationship difficulties. She also occasionally supports couples who wish to improve communication and deepen understanding within their relationships.

In the therapy room, her presence is calm, collaborative, and attuned. She walks with clients in a way that honours their pace and capacity, meeting them where they are with care and attentiveness. This way of journeying together anchors her in the work — witnessing the quiet shifts that unfold when someone feels genuinely supported: the easing of old emotional patterns, the subtle return of hope, and the gradual sense of coming home to a self that has always been there beneath the weight of struggle. Within this shared presence, therapy becomes a space to step back from lifeʼs noise, a calm and grounded place to make sense of what feels heavy, reconnect with what matters, and explore new ways of being.

She takes a trauma-informed and integrative approach that is tailored to each individual, drawing on her training in modalities such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Schema Therapy, Internal Family Systems-informed therapy, and the Gottman Method. She is also trained in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), equipping her to respond safely and compassionately to individuals experiencing acute distress or suicidal thoughts. Guided by values of safety, choice, compassion, empowerment, and attunement, she blends professional training with her own lived understanding of resilience, struggle, and healing to support clients with steadiness, clarity, and care -helping them rediscover the self that has always been there.