About Us
Dr Penny Tok: Background and Approach
I am a Chartered Psychologist (Division of Educational and Child Psychology, British Psychological Society) with a PhD in Psychology (New Zealand). I am an educational and developmental psychologist, diagnostician and clinician, and a lecturer. I have almost 20 years of experience working with people and families with diverse needs.
I am skilled in the use of a wide range of cognitive and diagnostic tools. I have experience working with children with a diverse range of abilities in various countries around the world. This will be very helpful for parents with different needs and from different cultural backgrounds. I work regularly with expatriate and local families. I am conversant in English and Mandarin, with a limited ability to speak and understand Bahasa Melayu.
As a clinician, I firmly believe in working closely with the child's family and other therapy providers to ensure complete and consistent provision of support to the child. I provide an honest and open line of communication with my clients to ensure that everyone vested in helping the child is well-informed. I strongly encourage parental and family involvement in my therapy services and I am always happy to share techniques and ideas that the family can use to extend the skills learned in therapy to their wider environment.
In addition, my continued involvement in the scientific community ensures that the approaches I use to assist children and their families are based on scientifically validated methods and that my techniques and knowledge of the field is kept cutting edge.
Married to a fellow Psychologist, we have a two young boys who are the centre of our lives.
Present affiliations:
I am skilled in the use of a wide range of cognitive and diagnostic tools. I have experience working with children with a diverse range of abilities in various countries around the world. This will be very helpful for parents with different needs and from different cultural backgrounds. I work regularly with expatriate and local families. I am conversant in English and Mandarin, with a limited ability to speak and understand Bahasa Melayu.
As a clinician, I firmly believe in working closely with the child's family and other therapy providers to ensure complete and consistent provision of support to the child. I provide an honest and open line of communication with my clients to ensure that everyone vested in helping the child is well-informed. I strongly encourage parental and family involvement in my therapy services and I am always happy to share techniques and ideas that the family can use to extend the skills learned in therapy to their wider environment.
In addition, my continued involvement in the scientific community ensures that the approaches I use to assist children and their families are based on scientifically validated methods and that my techniques and knowledge of the field is kept cutting edge.
Married to a fellow Psychologist, we have a two young boys who are the centre of our lives.
Present affiliations:
- British Psychological Society
- Singapore Psychological Society
- Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- Autism@Aarhus, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Cultural Evolution of Religion Research Consortium (CERC), University of British Columbia, Canada
- Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- National University of Singapore, Singapore
Our Model
Our practice has proudly developed our own therapeutic model of support: R.E.C.E.S.S model. This model is based on a number of well-established therapeutic approaches including structured teaching (TEACCH).
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