PSYCHOLOGIST · EDUCATOR · LEARNING DESIGNER
I'm Irna Silawaty, M.Psi., Psikolog, a psychologist helping young people and the families who love them, with evidence-based methods and international training. Available in Bahasa Indonesia or English, wherever you are.
How I Can Help
One-to-one sessions if you're experiencing stress and anxiety through school, university, early career, or life far from home. Using CBT and ACT as primary approaches, we work together to understand what drives it, build skills to manage it, and move toward a life aligned with your values.
Parents seeking guidance on supporting their child through these seasons are also welcome.
Adolescents and young adults · Bahasa Indonesia or English ·
60-minute sessions via video call · Onsite arrangements available.
Seminars and workshops on youth mental health and wellbeing, self-regulation, career and life direction, grief and loss, supportive parenting, social-emotional learning (SEL), and counselling skills — for students, parents, educators, helping professionals, and communities.
Onsite and online · Bahasa Indonesia or English
Program development for youth-focused organizations, from initial needs analysis to facilitator-ready materials and training of trainers. Familiarity with instructional design principles and ADDIE framework with Kirkpatrick-informed evaluation.
Bahasa Indonesia or English
About
I know what it feels like to grow up anxious. As a teenager, I carried worries I couldn't name and questions I didn't know how to ask. What I needed then, but didn't have, was someone who understood and helped me navigate what I was feeling. That experience is what led me to pursue psychology and build my practice.
Since 2010, I have worked within the education system to support young people and their families. I know young people's world from the inside: the academic pressure, the ups and downs of friendships, the uncertainty of not knowing who they are or where they are headed, and the helplessness parents feel watching their child struggle from a distance. These days my work includes young adults building lives beyond school — new cities, new countries, new versions of themselves. I help them grow through all of it and toward self-acceptance, purpose, and resilience. Together, we do the quiet work of helping them bloom where they are planted.
At the end of my university training, long before online mental health support was familiar in Indonesia, a friend and I started Sepulang Sekolah. It was a Facebook group where teenagers could safely ask the questions they didn't know how to bring to anyone else. It was the beginning of understanding what young people actually need, and how to reach them where they are.
When the pandemic hit, that experience prepared me for volunteering with SEJIWA, a national psychological first aid hotline launched by the Indonesian government. I honed my online counselling skills through encounters with Indonesians in crisis, at one of the most anxious moments in recent memory.
I also came to understand that young people need more than someone to talk to — they need community, skills, and spaces to grow into who they are becoming. In 2020, a friend and I co-founded BLOOM, channeling that understanding into content, seminars, and workshops for young Indonesians. Looking ahead, I hope to build a group therapy practice. While this modality is still rare in Indonesia, I believe it holds real promise as a more accessible, powerful form of mental health support for young people.
I have developed programs for schools and organisations working with young people, and delivered 60+ seminars and workshops to audiences as diverse as students, parents, educators, helping professionals, and international communities.
Credentials
Trained & Trusted
Selected training and professional work.
Training
Professional work
Community Engagement
Co-Founder · 2020–present
Vision
A community that helps youth bloom where they are planted.
Missions
Writing & Research
Publication
Research
Contact
For inquiries, write to me at irna.silawaty@outlook.com.
I'll respond personally.