Safe Space Community
for Asians

 

Dr. Edmund Ng is qualified in theology from Wales, psychology from Australia and Belgium, and thanatology (grief therapy) 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 licensed psychotherapist, researcher, author, and trainer in Malaysia. He specializes in personality disorders, grief therapy, and issues of sin 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 intracerebral 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 in the field of Psychology 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 chosen to be 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 last book is Set Free from your Corrupted Shame: Be empowered to overcome bondages and sins (Amazon, 2022). The book is available in both the Kindle and paperback versions. His last journal paper is entitled Jesus Also Died For Our Corrupted Shame published in the Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care (SAGE, 2022).

 

Edmund also served as the Founding President of both 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.

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He is invited as one of the 150 strategic Christian thinkers  from around the world to contribute to the State of the Great Commission Report in the area of mental health (https://lausanne.org/report) published by the Lausanne Movement in 2024.

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In our digital age, Edmund presently seeks to equip the body of Christ through a free online ministry called Safe Space Community for Asians (https://www.safespacecom.org) offering monthly teaching videos and related case-study blogs that any lay Christian can freely access at any time to learn on a specific MH topic or refresh on it before reaching out to minister to someone.

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He believes that our churches ought to minister and reach out to the lost by attending to the whole person, not only spiritually, but also mentally, emotionally, and relationally. This is because God has intended to redeem and restore us to live abundantly as fully humans.Equipping Christians with mental health literacy will serve to benefit us with better self-care, more effective ministry to others, and the passion to reach the lost through counseling evangelism.