Personal
Dr. Natasha Nur Singh Riard
Employment history
Head of Programme
Singapore University of Social Sciences
Master of Psychology (Clinical) Programme
August 2025 – present (Senior Lecturer)
Psychology Clinic Manager
James Cook University (Singapore)
Master of Psychology (Clinical) Programme
July 2021-2024 (Lecturer)
January – July 2025 (Senior Lecturer)
Senior Psychologist
KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH)
Department of Child Development
August 2013-July 2021
KKH-KidSTART Multidisciplinary Team
March 2021-August 2023
Academic qualifications
Doctor of Psychology (Clinical)
James Cook University, 2013
Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology
Monash University, 2009
Bachelor of Art (Psychology & Communications)
Monash University, 2007
Professional awards
Innovation in Youth Mental Health Award for outstanding clinical excellence and pioneering contributions to youth mental healthcare in Singapore, from KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital in partnership with Temasek Foundation, 2025
Engagement Excellence Award (Community Engagement) from James Cook University (Singapore), 2023
Winner of the Allied Health Innovative Practice Award 2021 from the Singhealth & Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre
Professional memberships
Member and Registered Psychologist, Singapore Psychological Society
Collaborations
Author of Temasek Foundation Youth Connect Process-Based Intervention, in partnership with KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital & Temasek Foundation.
Conference presentations and publications
Wong, C.M., Tan, C.S., Riard, N., Yeleswarapu., S.P., Lourdes, M.D., Prasath, A., Tan, A.M., Tan, T.C., Sultana, R., & Lam, J.C.M. (2024). Autologous umbilical cord blood infusion for the treatment of autism in young children: A within-subjects open label study on safety (assessed via caregiver report) and efficacy. Autism Research, 17(8), 1721-1734.
Riard, N. & Marsh, N.V. (2024, February 11-13). Mental health pedagogy: The art and science of training mental health workers using Taylor Swift’s lyrics [Paper presentation]. Swiftposium: An Academic Conference on Taylor Swift, Melbourne.
Riard, N. (2023, September 22-23). Process-based psychological brief interventions for targeted at adolescents and youths with mental health distress [Symposium]. Singhealth Duke-NUS Scientific Congress, Singapore.
Marsh, N. V., Barlas, J., Riard, N. (2022, October 13-15). Process-based therapy in mental health care [Abstract]. Singapore Allied Health Conference, Singapore.
Marsh, N. V., Ng, A., Riard, N., Barlas, J. (2022, September 16-17). Education for the new era in mental healthcare: Training in process-based therapy [Panel presentation]. Singhealth Duke-NUS Education Conference, Singapore.
Riard, N., Koh, H. C., Tan, Q. L. D., (2020, December 2-4). Managing and treating anxiety disorders in preschool children [Symposium]. 24th World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions, Virtual.
Riard., N., Wong, C. M. (2019, 20-22 June). Managing sleep difficulties and screen use in autism spectrum disorder [Workshop, Oral presentation]. Asia Pacific Autism Conference 2019: Thriving with Autism, Singapore.
Lin, J., Magiati, I., Chiong, S. H. R., Singhal, S., Riard, N., Ng, I. H., Muller-Riemenschneider, F., Wong, C. M. (2019). The relationship among screen use, sleep, and emotional/behavioural difficulties in preschool children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 40(7), 519-529.
Riard, N., Koh, H. C., Tan, K., Tan., D., Han, A., Yang, P. H., Tang, H. N., Lourdes, M. D. (2018, September, 21-22). Screening for anxiety in preschool children – early detection for early intervention [Abstract]. Singhealth Duke-NUS Scientific Congress, Singapore.
Riard, N., Jory, M. (2011). Is it possible to appear less lazy? Disclaimer efficacy in social interaction. New School Psychology Bulletin, 8(2), 58-69.
Riard, N. (2010). Ethics in psychological practice: A comparison of the codes of the Australian, British, and Singapore psychological societies. International Psychology Bulletin, 14(4), 36-38.
Trainings
Foundations of Process-Based Therapy for Clinical Supervisors
Robert Brockman, May 2023
DNA-V
Joseph Ciarrochi and Louisa Hayes, June 2022
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in Practice
Steven C. Hayes, October 2021
Dyadic developmental practice psychotherapy parenting
Hannah Sun-Reid; 22-26 February 2021
Relational-Invitational Approach
Dorcas Yap, January 2021
Emotion Coaching: The heart of parenting
Gottman, 2020
Clinical disorders in early childhood
Professor Cecilia Essau, 19-28 August 2019
Clinical supervision training
Christine Senediak; 17-18 June 2019
Preschool Age Psychiatric Assessment (PAPA) training
Brian Small, Duke University; 10-13 July 2017
Autism Diagnostic Interview – Revised (ADI-R) training
Jennifer Olson; 21-22 March 2017
Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2) – advanced training
Kylie Gray; 24-28 May 2016
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Professor Gary Mesibov, 23-27 March 2015
Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) – workshop and reliability training
Eli Lebowitz; 9-13 March 2015
Signposts for building better behaviour
Lily Lau; August 2014
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