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Ministry of Health
Parliamentary QA

MEASURES TO PREVENT UNREGISTERED INDIVIDUALS AND COMPANIES THAT HIRE THEM FROM OFFERING COUNSELLING AND THERAPY SERVICES

8 May 2026

NOTICE PAPER NO. 811

NOTICE OF QUESTION FOR WRITTEN ANSWER

FOR THE SITTING OF PARLIAMENT ON 7 MAY 2026
 

Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament

Dr Charlene Chen

MP for Tampines GRC


Question No. 2110

To ask the Coordinating Minister for Social Policies and Minister for Health with the impending mandatory registration for psychologists, including the subdiscipline of counselling, what measures will be taken to prevent 15 unregistered individuals and companies that hire them from offering counselling and therapy services which remain unregulated.


Answer

1         The five psychological subdisciplines were selected through structured risk assessments conducted by expert panels of psychologists. These considered the magnitude and probability of harm to clients and patients arising from psychological services provided by clinical, clinical neuropsychology, counselling, educational and forensic psychologists.

2         Once implemented, the Allied Health Professions Act (AHPA) will protect registered job titles pertaining to the five subdisciplines and reserve their use for registered psychologists. Unregistered practitioners will not be permitted to use these titles in any context, including in advertisements and service agreements. The Ministry of Health and partner Ministries will also work with the Singapore Psychological Society to raise public awareness of the registered psychological subdisciplines and their scopes of practice. A register of psychologists will be made publicly available. With this, other unregistered mental health practitioners do not need to explicitly state their status in their advertisements and service agreements.

3         The Allied Health Professions Council (AHPC) will oversee and enforce psychological practice under the AHPA and AHPC’s Code of Professional Conduct. Enforcement action will be taken against errant practitioners or those falsely claiming to be registered psychologists.

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