About Josh Tan
Josh is an art psychotherapist and multi-disciplinary art-maker based in Singapore, with a diverse, cross-cultural experience working with people using creative arts, including individuals with special needs.
Prior to founding his solo practice Maya Therapy in 2026, he led the art therapy team at Psych Connect, a specialist psychological clinic in Singapore, as their Principal Art Therapist.
Trained in MA Art Therapy in the United Kingdom, Josh has also worked in mental health settings across England’s National Health Service (NHS) and Singapore, providing individual art therapy for children, teenagers and adults with a wide range of backgrounds, including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, disrupted attachment, psychosis, OCD, ASD and ADHD. He is certified in Sandplay Therapy and Symbol Work with Expressive Therapies Australia, and is also working towards a Gestalt Play Therapy certification with the West Coast Institute.
An adult Third Culture Kid (TCK) who spent his early childhood moving across South East Asia and attending international boarding school, Josh works predominantly with text and tactile media in his art, making use of haptic perception and somatic processing to explore the inter-cultural themes of loss, identity and belonging.
Josh is passionate about the multi-cultural experience and making art accessible to all ages and abilities, and is a two-time TEDx speaker.
He currently volunteers as the Deputy Secretary for the Art Therapist’s Association (Singapore), working to support and promote the profession locally. He is also a professional member of the Australian, New Zealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapies Association (ANZACATA) and a registered art therapist with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), the UK’s main healthcare regulatory body.
Media
- TEDx Talk: “The Borderlands of Belonging”, TEDxUniversityofDerby 2019 (My TCK Story)
- Webinar: “Art as Therapy”, Calm Collective Asia (Using art in mental health)
- Podcast: Finding Belonging as a Third Culture Kid, Calm Conversations (TCKs & Mental Health)
- Feature: Art Therapist Profile, Shentonista (Mental Health in Singapore)
- Magazine: Art for Mental Wellness, The A List
- Book Chapter: ‘The Borderlands’ in Sent: Reflections on Boarding School and Childhood (2020), Edited by Ostini, J. et al. (Written Transcript of TCK TEDx Talk)
Exhibitions
- Group Show: “To Have And To Hold” (2025), Thought Partner Studios, Singapore
- Solo Exhibition: (UN)CERTAINTY (2021), SainouSpace, Singapore
- Group Show: to feel our selves again (2021), PaperWork, National Design Centre, Singapore
- Solo Showcase: “Everything Must Go __” (2021), dblspce, Singapore
- Open Studio: lost in transition (2021), Hearth 2.0, Art Outreach, Singapore
- Group Show: Beyond Words (2020), University of Derby, UK
- Group Show: Mark-Making (2020), City Arts, Nottingham, UK
- Speaker: TEDxUniversityofDerby (2019), UK
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