Ms Sharon Tan is a Nurse Clinician working in IMH since 2000. A Motivational Interviewing Network Trainer / Associate member of MINT since 2013. Conducted many trainings on Motivational Interviewing at various places.

A Certified Psychiatric Rehab Practitioner (CPRP) in 2016; actively helping people recovered from their mental illness and completed a study on illness management and recovery program. She has graduated from Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (PRA) as a Certified Master Trainer of CPRP in 2017. Now an active trainer to conduct Introduction of Rehab, Recovery & Resilience course; Introduction to Psychiatric Rehabilitation and the CPRP Preparatory courses.

A Certified Mentor/ Licensed Trainer of Milestone Of Recovery Scales (MORS) in 2014; and a Certified Solution Focus Brief Therapy Practitioner in 2015.

Published “ Burden & Coping strategies experienced by caregivers of persons with schizophrenia in the community (2012). Published “ Motivational Interviewing approach used by community Mental Health Team” (2014). Published “ Illness Management & Recovery Program for Mental Health problem: Reducing symptoms and increasing social functioning”(2017); Published “ Level of Awareness of students towards Mental Illness” (2017). She has presented many good outcome of different studies at different conferences.

Volunteer work as Treasurer of Association Psychiatric Rehabilitation Singapore (APRS),2015-2017; Secretary of APRS (2017-2018).

Invited speaker for Recovery Conference at Premai Hospital, Johore, Malaysia (2009). Invited speaker for Agency for Integrated Care for Motivational Interviewing training (2015).

Member of the Peer Reviewer of International Journal of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental Health Services (2016 - 2018)

She has been implementing Illness Management & Recovery program in IMH since 2008. She has trained many staff in using this program in IMH and supported external agency. There are many recovery stories resulted from the outcome of this recovery program.