We have a small team comprising full-time professionals, supported by teams of trained and dedicated volunteers. The organisation is headed by an Executive Director, who reports to the Board of Directors.

Naomi Lourdesamy

Counsellor

Pronouns: they, them

Naomi works with LGBTQ+ adults and young people, many of whom are transgender and gender-diverse, racially minoritised, third-culture, practicing consensual non-monogamy, and/or neurodivergent — minorities-within-minorities. They support clients in exploring their complex identities, as well as navigating minority stress and attachment trauma. 

Recognising that minoritised people are often taught to dismiss and distrust themselves, Naomi sees their clients as experts of their own lives and works with them collaboratively. They help clients to safely reconnect with their internal experience and ways of knowing, to live with greater authenticity, agency, and ease.

Beyond the counselling room, Naomi helped develop Singapore’s first Queer-Affirming Therapy Code of Practice, seeking to clarify what ethical care for LGBTQ+ people means, with hopes of establishing queer-affirming therapy as a standard of Singapore’s mental healthcare.

Naomi is a Registered Counsellor (C1189) with the Singapore Association for Counselling and holds a Master of Counselling, Honours (Highest Distinction), from Flinders University. Their training includes all levels of Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), as well as Level 1 Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) for the Treatment of Trauma. 

Naomi began their involvement in LGBTQ+ community work in 2015 as the Coordinator of Gender Collective and a Board Member of The Inter-University LGBT Network, student-run university groups supporting and advocating for LGBTQ+ students. Serving the LGBTQ+ community remains the honour of their life.