Dr Lim was born in multi-racial Singapore, grew up in Sydney, New South Wales, and has called Adelaide, South Australia (SA) home since 2005. She is effectively multilingual, but her first language is English. She prefers English as her primary mode of communication with clients and within professional settings. She relies on Interpreters to work with clients from English as a Second Language (ESL) backgrounds in order to maintain transparency, objectivity, and the integrity of her service.
Dr Lim has worked in a diverse array of correctional settings (including Singapore Changi Prison and correctional facilities in SA), as a research assistant and lecturer in academic settings, and as a consultant with various government organisations.
Dr Lim also spent a decade, from 2006 to 2016, working for the Intervention Programs within the Court Administration Authority (CAA). Her employment with Interventions Program/CAA not only enhanced her understanding of the law, the judicial system, and the various administrative processes involved, but it was also instrumental in developing her understanding of Therapeutic Jurisprudence (TJ) as a legal philosophy. Her forensic psychological practice, in particular, has been informed by and grounded in the principles of TJ ever since.
Since 2019, she has undertaken the responsibility of conducting clinical audits/reviews of psychological services contracted to the Department for Child Protection in SA to conduct employment suitability assessments of residential care workers on an annual basis.
Dr Lim has completed formal training in various risk and clinical assessment instruments (e.g., HCR-20v3, STATIC-99R, ACUTE-2000, STABLE-2000, RSVP, PCL-R, and PAI etc.), as well as in therapeutic modalities such as Schema Therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT – for adolescents and adults), Cognitive Processing Therapy (for trauma), and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
In November 2014, Dr Lim formally completed 35 hours, over a 6-month period of Autism Diagnostician Training with Autism SA. The training program included a full-day workshop, and involvement in multiple diagnostic assessments with individuals of varying ages and intellectual/communicative ability levels, as an observer and as an independent clinician, with oversight by the Autism SA Diagnostic Service team.
