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Psychotherapist / Addiction Counsellor / Mindfulness Coach
Appointments available:
Wed, Thu: 9:30 am - 7 pm
Sat: 9:30 am - 7 pm
For other timings, contact us over WhatsApp
Oliver Ackermann
Oliver is a psychotherapeutic counsellor passionate about helping people struggling with addiction, behavioural compulsions, trauma, OCD, anxiety, and depression.
He takes a person-centred approach to therapy, which means he believes that each person has the capacity to heal themselves. He employs mindfulness-based interventions, cognitive behavioural therapy, and motivational interviewing to help his clients develop the skills necessary to overcome their challenges.
Oliver is also trained and certified in Attachment-focused EMDR, which emphasises a reparative therapeutic relationship using a combination of Resource Tapping to strengthen clients, EMDR to process traumas and talk therapy to help integrate the information from EMDR sessions and to provide healing derived from therapist-client interactions. Attachment-focused EMDR can be used for clients with severe early attachment trauma.
Oliver is also passionate about integrating holistic treatments with traditional psychological interventions. He believes that the mind and body are interconnected and that a holistic approach to therapy can be more effective than traditional methods. Oliver is originally from Switzerland, but he has lived in Singapore for the past 22 years. He is fluent in English and German, and he has basic communication skills in French.
Qualifications
Master of Counselling (SUSS – Singapore University of Social Sciences) 2016-2018
Certified Sex Addiction Counsellor (Institute for Sex Addiction Training – ISAT), 2021
Attachment-focused EMDR Therapist Part 1-3, Parnell Institute, USA, 2020/2021
Professional Training
COFRA 121 (Compassion Aware, Risk Focused 121, Managing sexual offending Risk, StopSO), 2025
EMDR Training: Rewiring the Addicted Brain, 2022
Emotion Focused Couple Therapy (Module 1, EFCT), 2019
Introduction to ACT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, 2017
Trainer for Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention, MBRP. University of California (UCSD) Centre for Mindfulness, USA, 2016
Trainer for .b Mindfulness in Schools project, 2014
Professional Bodies
SAC, Registered Counsellor with Singapore Association for Counselling (C0839): https://sacsingapore.org
COSRT, College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists: www.cosrt.org.uk
ATSAC, Association for the Treatment of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity: atsac.org.uk