Mr Adiemus Seah

Shalom and welcome to my homepage! I'm a Counsellor working at Learning and Teaching Unit, City West campus. My main role is to help and support students in managing their personal challenges so that eventually they can be successful in their study. These personal challenges include academic problems (e.g. time and workload management, motivation, procrastination), mental health concerns (e.g. stress, depression, anxiety), interpersonal issues (e.g. family and intimate relationships), and unexpected crisis (e.g. grief and loss, victims of crime).

I've been working as a professional counsellor for 7 years, with specific interest and training in grief and loss counselling, and relationship and sexuality counselling. I've worked in hospital, community centre, private practice and university. In addition to counselling, I involve in teaching, training and supervising both lay and professional counsellors. I am also an accredited PREPARE-ENRICH counsellor, which I help couples build stronger relationships.

I grew up in Malaysia and came to Adelaide in 1997. Therefore, I am fluent in English, Mandarin, Malay, Cantonese and Hokkien. In my leisure time, I enjoy swimming, cycling and reading.

Grief and your study

Grieving journey

Member of the Australia and New Zealand Student Services Association

Member of the International Golden Key Honour Society (The University of Adelaide)

Master in Grief and Palliative Care Counselling (Adelaide University)

Graduate Diploma in Christian Counselling (Tabor College of South Australia)

Bachelor of Arts in Christian Counselling (Tabor College of South Australia)

Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Flinders University)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Certificate of “21st Century Approaches to Grief Counselling and Therapy” with The Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement, 2009

Certificate of “Traumatic Loss: Bereavement after Sudden, Unexpected and Violent Death” with The Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement, 2009

Certificate of "Advanced Cognitive Therapy for the Emotional Disorders" with Associate Professor Ross G. Menzies, Adelaide (2009)

Certificate of "Creative CBT: 50 Novel Procedures for Helping People Change" with Associate Professor Ross G. Menzies, Adelaide (2009)

Basic certification of Choice Theory, Reality Therapy and Lead-Management from the William Glasser Institute, 2005, USA

Certificate of “Beyond Gender: Understanding the Ways men and Women Grieve” with The Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement, 2006

Certificate of “Challenging the Paradigm: New Understandings of Grief” with The Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement, 2006

Certificate of “Emotional Intelligence” from Six Seconds, USA (2005)

Certificate of Creative Development (Psychodrama) from International Zerka Moreno Institute (2002)

Accredited PREPARE/ENRICH Relationship Counselor

• Grief & Loss

Seah, C.H. (2008). The unspoken grief in an ivory tower: Examining transition issues among international students using a ‘grief tasks model’, Journal of Australian and New Zealand Student Services, Oct 2008. (Refereed article)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Adiemus Seah, 'The unspoken grief in an ivory tower: Examining transition issues among international students using a ‘grief tasks model’, the 2007 Biennial ANZSSA Conference, Auckland University of Technology (AUT), 2-5 December 2007, Auckland, New Zealand.