About Tembusu
Tembusu Training and Therapy weaves together play, creativity, and evidence-based practice to support children, families, and the professionals who care for them. Guided by a deep respect for each person’s innate resilience, the work rests on a relational, client-centred Gestalt framework that honours lived experience and personal strengths.​​
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Since 2007, Director and Senior Therapist Lee Sock Kuan has journeyed alongside children, youths, adults, and families as they navigate trauma, developmental challenges, mental health concerns, and relationship difficulties. Over the years, she saw how talk alone was often not enough especially for children and those whose experiences are held more in the body than in words. This led her to deepen her training in Gestalt Play Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Play Therapy, Sandplay Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Family Therapy and Emotion-Focused Therapy, integrating creative and somatic modalities into her clinical work.​
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From this commitment, Tembusu grew into a practice where therapy and training sit side by side. Children and families find a safe, protected space to express themselves through play and creative media, while parents are supported to understand their child more fully and make meaningful, confident changes at home.
At the same time, mental health professionals come to Tembusu to be equipped - through workshops, certification-linked trainings, and supervision - to offer developmentally attuned, relational and creative therapy to the children and families they serve.​​​
Our Mission
Tembusu’s mission is to nurture growth and healing in children, families, and communities by offering compassionate, developmentally sensitive therapy grounded in Gestalt and play-based approaches. We seek to empower parents as key figures in their children’s lives and to partner closely with them in understanding and supporting their child.​
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Alongside clinical work, Tembusu is dedicated to raising the standard of child and family mental health practice in the region by training and supervising counsellors, therapists, psychologists, and social workers. As a recognised provider of West Coast Institute, Singapore Association for Counselling and Association for Play Therapy (Singapore), Tembusu offers accredited workshops and supervision that foster ethical, reflective, and skilled practice.
Our Director
Sock Kuan has been working with children, youths and adults since 2007. Besides counselling and psychology, she is trained in Gestalt Play Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Play Therapy, Sandplay Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Family Therapy and Emotional-Focused Therapy.
Working from a Gestalt framework, Sock Kuan adopts a relational and collaborative partnership with her clients to facilitate their inner awareness of experiences, struggles, strengths and resources. Appreciating the unique needs of her clients, she adapts a wide range of creative and somatic approaches in addition to talk therapy in her clinical practice.
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As a certified Gestalt Therapist with Children and Adolescents (West Coast Institute, USA) Sock Kuan offers specialized care and support to children and their families on a myriad of developmental issues and traumas, mental health issues (such as depression and anxiety), attachment issues and challenging behaviours.
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Besides clinical work, Sock Kuan also trains and supervises mental health practitioners such as counsellors, therapists, psychologists and social workers. As an approved West Coast Institute trainer and supervisor, Sock Kuan mentors candidates in the WCI Certification Programme. In addition to West Coast Institute, she is also a registered Clinical Member and Clinical Supervisor of the Singapore Association for Counselling and Association for Play Therapy (Singapore) and a Certified Practitioner in Therapeutic Play Skills with Play Therapy International (UK).
