Tham Xin Kai

Founder and Principal

Xin Kai is a pioneering Horticultural Therapist in Singapore. Trained as a Landscape Architect, he has designed numerous therapeutic gardens for public parks, schools, and healthcare facilities across Singapore. Xin Kai holds a professional certificate from the University of Florida, alongside additional trainings in the United States, having served with the Horticultural Therapy team at New York University Langone Health and Wilmot Botanic Garden. He also shares his expertise as a part-time lecturer at Singapore Polytechnic, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, University of the Arts Singapore - Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, and National Parks Board Centre for Urban Greenery and Ecology.

Qualification and Professional Affiliation

  • Bach. Landscape Architect, University of Western Australia

  • Certificate in Horticultural Therapy, University of Florida

  • Associate Level 2, American Horticultural Therapy Association

  • Ikenobo Ikebana Society, Singapore Chapter (Committee)

  • GrowTH Network (Member)

  • International Plant People Council (Member)

Population served:

Horticultural Therapy

  • Psychiatric

  • Paediatrics

  • Epilepsy

  • Stroke rehabilitation

  • Acute rehabilitation

Therapeutic Horticulture

  • Older Adults

  • Substance abuse recovery

  • Parkinson Disease 

  • Alzheimer’s Disease (mild to severe)

  • Post stroke recovery

  • Children to young adults with developmental disabilities

  • Children (preschool to primary school)

  • Brain injury recovery

  • College students