Skip to main content
 

Empower Your Journey Towards Growth

Welcome to Positive Directions

At Positive Directions, we are committed to guiding individuals, families, and professionals as they navigate challenges and change and uncover their inner strengths. The counselling, therapy, training, consultancy, and supervision services focus on enhancing self-awareness, fostering resilience and meaningful personal growth. Our work is shaped by the belief that counselling, therapy and supervision is a partnership, where there is a journey towards growth, new choices and possibilities.  


Whether you are looking to overcome challenges, enhance wellbeing, improve personal and family relationships, gain insights on areas of growth or deepen your understanding of yourself, compassionate support will be provided to help you on your journey. Discover insight, increase resilience, embrace change, and grow with purpose at Positive Directions.

Our Founder


Dr Joan Khng is an experienced Satir practitioner, therapist, social worker, educator and supervisor with a professional foundation in Social Work and close to around 20 years of experience across the social services and social work education sectors. Her practice is grounded deeply in the Satir Model, which she has studied, practised and trained in for more than 20 years.


Throughout her career, Joan has worked with children and families affected by abuse, neglect and other high-risk circumstances, as well as children, adolescents, adults and families navigating mental health challenges, cancer, grief, loss and end-of-life concerns. These experiences have shaped her deep belief in the capacity of individuals and families to heal, grow and transform, even in the midst of difficult and unexpected life circumstances.


find out about OUR VISION, MISSION & PHILOSOPHY

Our Services

Training & Workshops


Enhance your personal and professional skills through our immersive training programs and interactive workshops focused on self-awareness, building resilience, navigating change and listening/ relational skills. Curriculum can also be designed and tailored to the unique needs faced by your group/ organisation/ community. 

Counselling & Therapy


Explore life challenges and work on personal, family and relational issues in a safe space with our compassionate counselling & therapy services, grounded in the Satir Model. Our services can be conducted face-to-face, online or over the phone. 

Consultation & Supervision


Strengthen your practice and research skills, develop more effective programmes and improve workplace dynamics with our consultancy services. Our consultancy services are designed to enhance your research skills, promote healthier relationships and more effective team communication and dynamics. 


Consultation can also be given in developing and piloting new programmes, where guidance can be given through the process of programme implementation and evaluation. 


Develop professional confidence with our reflective supervision aimed at enhancing both your social work/ counselling practice and personal growth. We offer supervision catered to your organisation or individual needs.





Support group facilitation


We offer competent support group facilitation as well as guidance on designing and running support groups.




Ready to Embrace Possibilities? 

Positive directions: Discover insight, find direction, and grow with purpose.

Testimonials

Gained some inspiring ideas and tangible skills


I appreciated the care by the facilitator in providing variety in activities, seeing to our comfort... and facilitating our final reflections. The opening activity... brought out the inner child in me and was an effective use of symbology and meaning making... I gained some inspiring ideas and tangible skills to apply to myself, as well as my approach to clients in counselling sessions. 

 

- Sharon C., Workshop Participant 

Sharings from such a knowledgable trainer 


I appreciate her knowledge and valuable sharings, asking appropriate questions to connect with learners 


- Z.K., Workshop Participant

Gained good resources 


I came expected resources to better maintain a healthy mental health and got good resources such as [an understanding of] the Iceberg... which I would not have found out myself... the sharing was very conducive...


- K., Workshop Participant

Gained practical handles (learning clear ways to apply concept)


The presenter was patient and able to identify the hardships experienced by caregivers... there was good sharing of the old and new equilibrium, and [how to] tolerate uncertainty... I gained some practical handles.


- E.V., Workshop Participant

Realised I have a lot of strengths


Joan guided me a lot... Because of her I realise that I do have a lot of strengths.


- K., Counselling Client

Getting the right counsellor made all the difference


As a quiet person, I do not open up easily to my family members and friends... but Joan has allowed me to be very comfortable to share freely from my heart... all [the coping] techniques shared have been very useful and effective... Looking back, I do not know how I would have gotten to where I am now without her sincere support... getting the right counsellor makes all the difference for someone like me. 


- P., Counselling Client

Get in Touch with Us