Richard Lim

Richard Lim is a Consultant Psychotherapist in private practice and a Training Consultant since 2001. In the early 1990s, Richard was involved in training government officials in strategic thinking and socio-political competence. Subsequently in the mid-1990s, he was actively engaged in community welfare projects and services. Currently, beside therapeutic consultation, Richard provides leadership training and consultancy to groups within public and private sector organisations. Most of these training and consultancy focus on enhancing knowledge and skills in relationship, communication, group facilitation, wellness, counselling and conflict management. Richard has worked with groups of staff from organisations like Microsoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Shell, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Barclays Capital, National Panasonic, Fujitsu, Courts, PSA, HDB, SMRT, MCYS, NIE, MOH, MTI, NEA, NCSS, SSC, PA and tertiary institutions like NUS, NTU and SMU. He was an Adjunct Lecturer at Nanyang Business School (NTU) on management and leadership. Richard also runs supervision groups for counsellors in community agencies regularly and trains students in counselling and psychology programmes with various academic institutions in Singapore and the region. He is the current President of the Psychotherapy Association of Singapore, the Vice President of the Association for Group and Individual Psychotherapy. Richard is also the Training Consultant for the Civil Service College on wellness that focuses on building resilience in relationships and families for nation building. Academic Qualifications Master in Social Science, University of South Australia, 2001 Graduate Diploma, Psychotherapy, Graduate School of Medical Studies, NUS, 2000 Bachelor of Arts (HON), NUS, 1990