Vincent Bong
 

Vincent Bong has been teaching the subject “Introduction to Counselling Psychology” at Temasek Polytechnic for many years, and he has also co-facilitated this workshop in Practical Counselling for public-run. He is also a certified facilitator for Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People in Temasek Polytechnic, having conducted these workshops for more than 100 staff. Vincent comes with diverse work experience covering human resources, organisational development, management leadership training, coaching and counselling, interacting with people from different cultures and backgrounds in multi-national companies. He has accumulated first-hand experiences attending to employee grievances, trauma and despair through his involvement in a variety of organisational restructuring, and mergers & acquisitions exercises. As a father of two adult children, one a male and the other a female, Vincent has also been through the hard knocks in life with his family and loved ones, applying the basic counselling techniques you will learn and role play in this course to deal with issues, decision-making and varying situations in life. 

Emil Cheong
 

Emil Cheong has been lecturing in Temasek Polytechnic since 2010. Prior to this, he has worked in education research and was also a tutor and instructor in university Psychology courses. He has experience teaching in areas related to counselling, social, personality, and cultural psychology, as well as research methods. Besides teaching Psychology, he has also worked in the counselling role with youth in secondary school and polytechnic settings, on various issues including academic stress and motivation, personal and school relationships, and mental health. Emil studied Psychology and Sociology at the National University of Singapore, and completed his Masters in Psychology at Nanyang Technological University, and Masters in Guidance and Counselling at James Cook University. He is trained and certified in Choice Theory / Reality Therapy.