Safe Space Community
for Asians

 

Dr. Edmund Ng is qualified in theology from Wales, in psychology from Australia and in thanatology from the USA. He is one of only 3 Asians who are accredited as a Fellow of the Association of Death Education and Counseling.

 

Formerly a business CEO and pastor, Edmund is presently in full-time community service as a psychotherapist and researcher in Malaysia. He specializes in personality disorders, grief therapy, and issues of sins and shame.

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Both Edmund and his present wife Pauline have experienced first-hand the deep pain and loneliness of suddenly losing their respective spouses. Edmund’s first wife, Jessie, died unexpectedly of intra-cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 49. Pauline’s first husband, Su, was killed instantly in a car accident, and she was widowed for 15 years.

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As a couple, Edmund and Pauline have since 2007 counseled and journeyed alongside hundreds of bereaved persons, both on a one-on-one basis and collectively in Grief Support Groups. They have also trained up a volunteer core team of caregivers who have themselves journeyed through their own losses.

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Based on his professional practice and research, Edmund has written an academic book entitled Shame-informed Counseling and Psychotherapy: Eastern and Western Perspectives (Routledge, 2021). Routledge is one of the world’s top publishers and his book is published as a hard-cover monograph in recognition of its value, quality and originality. It is carried in the libraries of many established universities such as the universities of Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Hong Kong to name a few.

 

He has also written several Christian books and journal papers. His latest book is Set Free from your Corrupted Shame: Be empowered to overcome bondages and sins.

 

Edmund also served as the Founding Presidents of the National Association of Christian Counselors Malaysia (2011-2017) and the Asia Christian Counseling Association (2017-2021). Both organizations seek to shape and promote Christian counseling for ministry and missions at the national and regional levels respectively.