Adj. Prof. Dr. Prem Kumar Shanmugam

Founder and CEO

LANGUAGES SPOKEN
CURRENTLY BASED IN

Adjunct Professor Dr Prem Kumar Shanmugam is the Founder, CEO and Clinical Director of Solace Asia Addiction Retreat and the newly introduced Solace Wellness. He has worked in the field of addictions and psychology for more than 10 years.

Prem is also the past President of the Association of Psychotherapists and Counsellors (Singapore) and the Regional Director of the Asia Pacific Certification Board (Singapore) while being one of the founding members as well. Prem is a psychologist, psychotherapist, trainer, facilitator and is actively involved in research in the addiction field. He works with people with addiction issues from all walks of life exposed to multicultural settings.

Prem specializes in developing and evaluating substance abuse treatment programmes and group. He brings with him vast experience in working with relationship issues, marital counseling one interpersonal issues. He is a certified practitioner in Management of Family Violence Counseling with the Ministry of Community Development Youth and Sports.

On top of that, Prem reviews and writes articles and frequently presents at international conferences. He has authored two handbooks for Masters Students on a counseling course with a UK based University and Treatment Manuals for addictions treatment programme in Solace.