SarahEl Low is a Chartered Psychologist (Health) in the United Kingdom (UK), graduated in 1998 from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with Honours. She has been in psychology practice since 2001 after pursuing her Masters. Her research and thesis was on the “Spontaneous Remission of Cancer”. She has extensive experience with children & adolescents, adults and geriatrics, always pursuing the latest evidence-based and exploring various science-based therapies for her patients. She is an EMDR-trained practitioner with EMDR Singapore, has a Diploma in Human Nutrition; specially trained to manage the body-mind connection in behavioural medicine for chronic diseases. Currently she is practicing in both public and private organisations, with occasional involvement in workgroups by the Ministry of Health (MOH). For government entities, she sees patients with medical conditions and psychological issues, distress in management of chronic diseases, such as, diabetes, obesity, cardiac, renal, and dementia. For private practice, she covers a spectrum of mental health challenges, for example, dealing with trauma. She undertook various frontline projects during SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome – 2003) and Coronavirus disease (COVid-19).
This is her first-term serving Singapore Psychological Society as Honorary Secretary. She believes in giving back to society, and was involved in several overseas missions and local voluntary work since she was 17. However, psychology was never her pursuit of priority and perfection. She is a devoted and passionate mother of two, and always puts her children before herself or career. As she believes the world would go on without her, however she means the world to her children.