About Me

I am a clinical psychologist in private practice, and I work each day to help adults make peace with themselves and with others.

I love my work, and the privilege it provides me not only to listen to people’s stories, but to explore and understand the experiences that shape their inner and outer worlds.

I started my journey as a newspaper reporter, and it is there I think I fell in love with interviewing, and the joy of understanding the people behind the stories.

The opportunity arose to work toward my PhD in the US in the mid 2000s, where I was schooled in the scientist-practitioner method, focusing on both the the art and the science of therapy.

On a personal front, I am a wife and a mum to two girls, age 7 and 15. When not at work, I am at home with them. My little family has moved thrice in the last 20 years. My older girl was born in Singapore, and my younger in New Zealand. Like many immigrants and expats, we know what it means to be third-cultured.

Not looking or sounding like we belong anywhere in particular, we find equal joy in eating at a humid hawker centre in Singapore, as we do tramping and swimming on the beaches of Auckland. We have learnt that change comes with great discomfort, but also great joy.

I have seen clients in private practice since 2010 in Michigan, Singapore and New Zealand, and over the years, my clients have taught me more than I have taught them. Through their experiences, I developed a clinical speciality in trauma therapy, as well as in rehabilitative psychology for people with injuries or experiences of crime. I have also lectured in the Counselling Psychology Masters programme at the Auckland University of Technology.

During a regular day in the the office, I help people cope with traumatic experiences such as accidents, brain injuries, chronic pain, childhood abuse or neglect, sexual abuse trauma and the effects of family violence. Some clients come to me privately for "problems of living", including grief and bereavement, health challenges, relationship problems and work-related stress. Others seek help for anxiety and depression, or for more serious mental health difficulties, including bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder. Often high-achieving individuals seek therapy for challenges related to imposter syndrome, burnout, and feelings of inadequacy.

I also apply my skills in helping people sifting through complicated issues in the domain of wealth counselling. In this role, I am a financial therapist to high net-worth individuals and C-suite executives helping them find solutions that get to the heart of what it means to maximise wealth while securing both individual and family well-being.

I work primarily using methods of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, but frequently also employ somatic experiencing, systemic therapy and other modalities.

What this means essentially, is that we work hard in session to understand and decode the hidden language of emotions, and also to understand the relational dynamics that affect us all, so that comfort and change comes more easily in real life.

Find out more about me at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amritk/?trk=opento_sprofile_details

I offer therapy to clients in Singapore, Auckland and internationally, and I look forward to getting to know you.