Teaching & Engagement

🔹 Teaching

As an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Centre for Lifelong Learning (C3L), Universiti Brunei Darussalam, I contribute to teaching in Basic Counselling and Communication Skills. I draw on my counselling practice and research to connect core concepts with the communication choices practitioners make in real conversations.

My teaching interests include attentive listening, purposeful questioning, professional boundaries, reflective learning and sensitivity to a person’s cultural and spiritual context. I aim to help learners explain what they are doing in a counselling interaction, why they are doing it and how they would respond when a situation calls for greater care.

Earlier in my career, I served as a Student Counsellor and Lecturer at Septronic Skills Training Centre, Selangor (2018–2020). I have also contributed to counselling-related learning activities in educational and professional settings.

🔹 Academic and Professional Engagement 

I participate in scholarly and professional activities that connect research with practice. My CV records contributions to instrument and module review, academic peer review, conference participation and counselling-related educational activities.

🔹 Community Education

I deliver talks and facilitate programmes for schools, healthcare settings and community organisations. Topics have included adolescent mental health, emotional regulation, family communication, stress, psychological first aid and mental health in digital life.

This work gives me a continuing opportunity to test whether academic ideas can be explained clearly and used responsibly by the people they are intended to serve.

🔹 Writing for the Public

My public writing addresses mental health and everyday social concerns in accessible language. Contributions listed in my CV include articles in Berita Harian and Dewan Masyarakat. These pieces form part of my effort to connect counselling knowledge with public discussion.