Ellisha Othman (Malaysia)

Ellisha is a Clinical Psychologist at SOLS Health, a community-based behavioral health centre. Prior to her career in psychology, she pursued a career in the area of corporate finance. Currently as the Managing Director of SOLS Health, she focuses on leading the organization to provide sustainable and accessible behavioural health services especially to the marginalised and underserved population with a community development approach.

In her role as a clinical supervisor and honorary lecturer for the University of East Anglia UK, she focuses on the developing and nurturing socially-responsible mental health practitioners in-training from Malaysian and international universities. As a clinician, she is predominantly trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Adlerian Psychology. Ellisha has worked with children and adolescent as well as adult population on a myriad of psychological and developmental disorders, behavioural management, parenting skills, chronic pain and trauma intervention.

Her prior research areas included studying mood and anxiety disorders amongst learning disorder and gynaecological cancer population and currently focuses on the impact of community based behavioural health interventions. Ellisha is fluent in English and Malay and she is an active member of Malaysian Society of Clinical Psychology (MSCP) and as strong advocate of her profession and has served as the Honorary Treasurer from 2017-2019.