Supporting Mental Health & Wellbeing Resilience in Crisis: A Decade of Insights Working with International Schools

Dr. Anderson is director and psychotherapist with Restorative Community Counselling, in Singapore, where she has lived and worked since 1999. She is a certified NOVA crisis responder and trainer, specializing in crisis intervention and responder training.

Since the early 1990s, Dr. Anderson has trained crisis responders and provided on-site support for incidents in the United States, Canada, Yugoslavia, Singapore, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, and Myanmar. She has responded to incidents, such as plant explosions, hurricanes, tornadoes, plane crashes, earthquakes, cyclones, tsunamis, terrorist attacks, drownings, war trauma, school-based crises, and suicides.

Dr. Anderson’s work extends to developing crisis response capabilities within educational settings, offering training, supervision and crisis response support to local and international educational institutions. Her doctoral research focused on the impact of trauma on women trafficked and sexually exploited in the Mekong region.

Currently, Dr. Anderson serves as the Project Director and lead writer for NOVA, overseeing the update of its crisis response training materials to ensure they reflect best practices and the latest research in the field.