Clinical Psychology Associates

Anna Chen, Clinical Psychologist

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology (Honours) James Cook University

Masters in Clinical Psychology National University of Singapore

Others

Singapore Psychological Society Registered Psychologist (SRP No. 1809001)

Anna is a Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years of experience working with children, adolescents, and adults. She supports individuals experiencing a wide range of psychological difficulties across the lifespan — from school-related stress, anxiety, and body-image concerns in youth, to relationship and marital challenges in adulthood, as well as mood and anxiety disorders.

Anna is known for her calm, thoughtful, and compassionate approach. She provides a supportive space where clients feel understood while working towards meaningful and lasting change.

In recent years, Anna has developed a growing interest in working with individuals experiencing chronic pain and mind–body conditions, particularly when physical symptoms persist despite medical treatment or when symptoms are influenced by stress and nervous system dysregulation. Drawing on emerging research in pain neuroscience, neuroplasticity, and mind–body medicine, she incorporates approaches such as Pain Reprocessing Therapy and nervous system regulation to help clients better understand the relationship between the brain, body, and pain experience.

Anna graduated with an Honours degree in Psychology from James Cook University and received a scholarship from the Institute of Mental Health to complete her Master of Clinical Psychology at the National University of Singapore in 2012. 

She previously worked at the Institute of Mental Health, where she helped pioneer community-based mental health services for students. Anna has also supervised graduate psychology students, provided training for medical doctors and school counsellors, conducted parenting workshops and group therapy, and published research in peer-reviewed psychological and medical journals.

Anna is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), mindfulness-based approaches, and psychodynamic-informed therapy.

“We may not be responsible for the way the world creates our mind, but we can learn to take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.”
– Gabor Maté

Services Offered

  • General Counselling
  • Psychotherapy for Clinical Disorders
  • Pain Reprocessing Therapy
  • Consultation for Mind–Body and Neural Circuit Conditions

For the following concerns

  • Mood disorders
  • Anxiety disorders
     • Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Trauma-related disorders
  • Personality disorders
  • Selective mutism
  • Self-harm
  • Chronic Pain & Mind–Body Conditions
    • Chronic pain syndromes (e.g., back pain, neck pain, musculoskeletal pain)
    • Neural circuit disorders / neuroplastic pain
    • Central sensitization conditions (e.g., fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue)
    • Tension headaches and migraine
    • Irritable bowel syndrome and functional gastrointestinal symptoms
    • Functional neurological symptoms
    • Medically unexplained symptoms