Psychotherapist | Accredited EMDR Therapist | Neurofeedback Practitioner | Family Therapist | Accredited Mental Health Social Worker 

Small Figures Work Trainer

Magdalen Ser is a highly experienced mental health therapist with over 30 years of clinical practice across health, mental health, community, and educational settings in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. 

She is a Registered Medicare Provider and is able to provide Medicare rebates to clients presenting with a valid Mental Health Care Plan through their Doctor or Psychiatrist.

• EMDR Association of Australia – EMDRAA Accredited Practitioner
• Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) – Accredited Mental Health Social Worker
• EEG Institute, USA – Infra-Low Frequency Neurofeedback (Othmer Method)
• Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), UK
   

Magdalen holds a Master of Science in Family Therapy from the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London (1996). Her postgraduate training included clinical attachments at the Maudsley Hospital Adolescent Eating Disorder Clinic, King’s College Hospital, and the Lewisham Child Guidance Clinic in London.

She also holds a Bachelor of Arts (Social Work) and a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours – Sociology) from the National University of Singapore.

Prior to establishing full-time private practice, Magdalen held senior clinical, teaching, and leadership roles internationally, including:

• Deputy Director, Singapore Association for Mental Health 
• Senior Counsellor, Student Counselling Service, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Senior Social Worker, Inpatient Psychiatric Services, Wellington Hospital
• Adjunct Lecturer, National University of Singapore
• Counsellor in secondary schools and community health services in Melbourne
   

Magdalen is an integrative and trauma-informed therapist, working within a client-centred, attachment-focused, strength-based, neurophysiological, and biopsychosocial framework. She understands emotional and psychological distress within relational, developmental, and social contexts.

She believes individuals have an innate capacity to access their inner resources of resilience, strengths, and values to heal, grow, and live meaningful lives. 

Magdalen provides a compassionate and holding therapeutic space for clients as they engage in their healing journey of discovery, restoration, and growth.

• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR, Level 3)
• Infra-Low Frequency Neurofeedback (Othmer Method)
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• CBT/ Dialetical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
• Ego State Therapy
• Schema Therapy
• Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• Somatic Psychotherapy
• Narrative Therapy
• Solution-Focused / Brief Therapy
• Small Figures Work ( www.smallfigureswork.com)
   

Magdalen works primarily with adults presenting with:

• Trauma and attachment wounding
• Grief and loss
• Anxiety and depression
• Health and neurodevelopmental issues such as ADHD/ASD/ Learning, Social Communicative challenges  
• Relationship and family difficulties
• Cross-cultural/ adjustment issues
• Academic, work-related, and life-stage transitions
   

Magdalen has a strong clinical focus on trauma and attachment-based difficulties. She is deeply committed to ongoing professional development and actively engaged in advanced training in evidence-based, neuroscience-informed trauma therapies to  enhance her clients' healing, resilience, and wellbeing.