We’re a small but mighty team!

Our team is led by award-winning psychologists and psychiatrists who are not only recognized for their clinical excellence, but also for their significant contributions to the field of mental health. They've played a key role in shaping how we understand and treat mental health challenges, ultimately impacting countless lives for the better.

Here's what sets our team apart:

  • Award-Winning Expertise: Our clinicians are recognized for their groundbreaking research, innovative approaches, and dedication to patient care.

  • Real-World Impact: Their work has helped shape best practices in mental health treatment, benefiting individuals and communities worldwide.

  • Compassionate Care: Despite their impressive achievements, they remain dedicated to providing personalized and compassionate care to each and every patient.

  • Area: General Counselling, Suicide and Self-Harm, Anxiety Disorders, Depressive Disorders, Trauma Counselling, Relationships, Family

    Skills: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Suicide and Self-Harm Counselling, Family Counselling

    Language: English, Indonesian

    Dr. Sandersan Onie is a world leading mental health and suicide prevention expert, who is passionate about seeing a world without suicide and self-harm and a shareholder and board chair of Wellspring Indonesia. He has led the Indonesian National Suicide Prevention Strategy with the Ministry of Health, is the elected National Representative for Indonesia at the International Association for Suicide Prevention, and consults for the World Health Organization Headquarters in Geneva for the Mental Health and Substance Use Unit, to advise governments and regions across the globe on their mental health programs. He authored the first Indonesian Mental Health First Aid Booklet, published by Kompas Gramedia, and has been featured on platforms such as TED, South by Southwest and Forbes. He holds a research fellowship at the Black Dog Institute, Sydney, Australia, an adjunct Professorship at Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia and a visiting research affiliation at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

    • Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours), UNSW Sydney, 2016

    • PhD in Psychology, UNSW Sydney, 2019

  • Area: General Psychiatry, Trauma, Anxiety Disorders, Mood Disorders, Suicide and Self-Harm

    Skills: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Trauma Therapy

    Language: Indonesian, English

    Dr. Jiemi Ardian is a nationally leading psychiatrist passionate about seeing people overcome their trauma and a shareholder of Wellspring Indonesia. His research encompasses new culturally sensitive ways to health trauma, including a method called Emotion Releasing Process. He is Indonesia’s leading voice in psychiatric education and advocacy with a following of over 800 thousand people on various platforms. He has authored best selling books such as “Merawat Luka Batin” dan “Love Yourself”, featured on TED for his talk ‘Happiness and Laughter Not By Consumerism and Social Media’ and frequently gives talks to multinational companies and national media, such as YouTube, Kick Andy and many more.

    • Psychiatrical Medical Specialisation, Universitas Sebelas Maret, 2019

    • Mindful Academy Solterreno, Spain

    • Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor University, Wales

    • Adi W Gunawan Institute of Mind Technology

  • Area: General Clinical Psychology, Transgenerational Trauma, Family, Marriage, Relationships, Children, Pregnancy and Health, Postnatal Health, Healthy Ageing

    Skills: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Couples and Family Therapy, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Transgeneral Therapy

    Language: Indonesian, English

    Ms. Anna Surti Ariani (Nina) is a nationally leading clinical psychologist passionate about seeing healthier families, and a shareholder of Wellspring Indonesia. She has taken an active role in shaping the country’s psychological landscape, most notably as the lead for the province of DKI Jakarta in the Indonesian Clinical Psychologist Association (IPK Indonesia, 2019-2023),

    and part of their national council, providing expert advice to various government agencies on health policy, disaster management and capacity building for psychological first aid and spearheading many developments in the country. Given her expertise, she also advises the Family Commission of the National Bishop’s Council, overseeing over 8 million people in Indonesia. She is a prominent figure in media, frequently appearing on many national and international media outlets such as Kompas, Media Indonesia, Suara.com, and Hendersonville Times News.

    • Bachelor of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia, 1999

    • Psychologist Professional Program, Universitas Indonesia, 2001

    • Master of Science Program in Developmental Psychology, Universitas Indonesia, 2011

    • Psychotherapy Brevet Program, Universitas Padjadjaran, 2019

  • Area: Stress Reduction, Personality Disorders, Couple Counselling, Trauma Counselling, Anxiety, Mood Disorders, and Life Coaching.

    Skills: integrative psychotherapy

    Language: English, Indonesian

    Dr. Tjoeng Steven, SpKJ is a board-certified psychiatrist with over 8 years of experience in the field of mental health. He obtained his psychiatric training from Sebelas Maret University, where he developed a keen interest and honed his skills in integrative psychotherapy and personality disorders.

    Throughout his career, Dr. Tjoeng has been committed to providing compassionate and evidence-based care to individuals struggling with a wide range of mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and personality disorders. He believes in a holistic approach to treatment, incorporating medication management, psychotherapy, and lifestyle interventions to address the unique needs of each patient.

    In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Tjoeng is actively involved in ongoing learning on psychotherapy. He is also a dedicated founder and facilitator of the mental health community Ruang Hati.

    Outside of work, he enjoys spending time practicing mindfulness, and exploring various mental intervention technologies. He is passionate about promoting mental health awareness and reducing the stigma associated with psychiatric disorders. As a psychiatrist, dr. Tjoeng is dedicated to helping his patients lead fulfilling and meaningful lives.

  • Area: General Clinical Psychology, Transgenerational Transmitted Issues, Self-Esteem, Value-Based Living.

    Skills: Transgenerational Psychotherapy, Gestalt Psychotherapy.

    Language: Indonesian, English.

    Ms. Tatiana Basuki (Anna) is a registered Clinical Psychologist experienced working with clients for the past 16 years from different cultural, economic and social backgrounds. Her counseling approach evolves and adapts to clients’ needs. She applies a Gestalt and body-mind-soul perspectives within a psychogenealogy & transgenerational transmitted issues framework. This means that she holds in mind the patterns of behavior, thoughts and emotions that have arisen in response to relationships and experiences within members of the client’s family tree up to three-four-or more generations before.

    The integrative psychotherapy is aimed to develop deeper levels of awareness, and move towards more conscious choice-making, leading to a more integrated lifestyle. She assists clients to go inward to identify their strengths and develop more nurturing, self-empowering behaviors and perspectives.

    Anna has taken an active role in shaping the country’s psychological landscape, most notably as leading the Strategic Partnership and Alliance Division Jakarta Chapter in the Indonesian Clinical Psychologist Association (IPK Indonesia, 2019-2023).

    Prior to becoming a Clinical Psychologist, she worked in an international oil and gas company for over 15 years. Her experience in a corporate environment brings additional value to her knowledge in group dynamics and leadership skills.

    • Bachelor of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia, 2005

    • Clinical Psychologist Professional Program, Universitas Indonesia, 2008

  • Area: Child Clinical Psychology, Parenting,Early Childhood Development (Screening and Stimulation), Emotional Problems, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, School Children, Adolescents

    Language: Indonesian, English.

    Ms. Febiana Pratomo (Febi) is a child clinical psychologist experienced in working with families and children of different ages for the past 13 years. Throughout her career as a psychologist and early childhood educator, she strengthen her passion in helping families to have a healthy relationship based on building secure attachment from an early age. Related to this, most of her work is helping children with emotional problems.

  • Area: General Clinical Psychology, Teens, Adults, Anxiety, Depression, Intellectual Disabilities, Eating Disorders, Relationships

    Skills: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance Commitment Therapy, Counselling

    Language: English, Indonesian

    Ms. Asaelia is a clinical psychologist passionate about seeing young people thrive. In 2018, she co-founded Ubah Stigma, a nationally leading nonprofit that focuses on changing the future of Indonesia’s mental health by developing and researching education and training programs at schools across the country reaching 39,000+ recipients from its programs. Ubah Stigma has been recognized by the Ministry of Health and invited to consult for national events including University of Melbourne’s Orygen ASEAN Youth Mental Health Fellowship Meeting. She has a track record of research in anxiety, self-harm and eating disorders; and has appeared in national and international media such as SEAToday, IDN Times, DAAI TV, and various podcasts. She has also spoken in schools, communities and companies surrounding topics about mental health.

    • Bachelor of Science, University of Exeter, 2018

    • Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Sciences, University College London, 2019

    • Master of Clinical Psychology, Universitas Indonesia, 2024

Awards & Recognitions

    • Indonesian Ministry of Health, Suicide Prevention

    • Indonesian Ministry of Health, Psychological First Aid

    • Indonesian Ministry of Communications and Information

    • World Health Organisation Headquarters

    • Indonesian first national suicide prevention strategy: key findings from the qualitative situational analysis, The Lancet Regional Health: Southeast Asia

    • Wellspring Indonesia was part of the leadership team that led Indonesia’s first suicide prevention strategy, understanding where we are now, what is our vision for suicide prevention, and what steps we need to take to get there.

    • Indonesia’s first suicide statistics profile: an analysis of suicide and attempt rates, underreporting, geographic distribution, gender, method, and rurality, The Lancet Regional Health: Southeast Asia

    • Wellspring Indonesia helped make crucial Indonesian suicide data available by gender, age, geography and rurality, helping policymakers and stakeholders identify priority populations.

    • A unified religious stance on mental health and suicide at the G20: the Lombok Declaration, The Lancet Psychiatry

    • This publication documents how Wellspring Indonesia members developed the world’s first unified religious statement on mental health and suicide at the G20 in 2022.

    • A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic, Nature Human Behaviour

    • Wellspring Indonesia members took part in a global project to identify how to improve mental health during the COVID 19 pandemic, testing a commonly used intervention called reappraisal.

    • A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

    • Wellspring Indonesia members took part in a global project to identify how to encourage social distancing during the COVID 19 pandemic, informing policymakers worldwide.