Where Brain Science Meets Human Potential
Who We Are
A New Approach to Brain Health and Workplace Performance
Brain Health Specialist is a professional centre dedicated to optimising how people think, feel, perform, and recover — at work and in life. We integrate brain health, occupational health psychology, and positive organizational psychology into a unified approach that serves both individuals and organizations.
Our work goes far beyond treating problems after they arise. We partner with individuals, leaders, and organizations to build the psychological resources needed for sustained performance, resilience, and wellbeing — before challenges become crises.
Our philosophy is simple: A healthy brain is the foundation of everything — clear thinking, sound decisions, strong leadership, productive teams, and meaningful lives. When we invest in brain health and psychological capital, individuals flourish and organizations thrive.
How We Are Different
This Is Not a Typical Mental Health Centre
Most mental health services focus on problems. We focus on building capacity — in people and in the systems around them. Here's what sets us apart.
Brain Health, Not Just Mental Health
We look at how the brain functions — cognition, energy, recovery, decision-making — not just symptoms. Our goal is optimal brain performance, not only symptom reduction.
Science-Informed, Not Clinical-Only
Our approach integrates organizational neuroscience, occupational health psychology, and positive psychology — disciplines that focus on what makes people and workplaces function well, not just what goes wrong.
Prevention First
We work across primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. That means we help build resilience and capacity before problems start — and provide expert support when challenges do arise.
Individuals and Organizations Together
People don't exist in a vacuum. We support individuals in their personal and professional lives, and we work with organizations to create psychologically safe environments where everyone can do their best work.
Our Framework
The Science Behind Our Approach
We draw on three evidence-based disciplines — each explained here in plain language — to create support that is both scientifically grounded and practically useful.
Organizational Neuroscience
Understanding the brain at work
How does the brain respond to stress, collaboration, leadership, and change? Organizational neuroscience helps us understand the biological foundations of workplace behaviour — so we can design better support, training, and work environments that align with how the brain actually works.
Occupational Health Psychology
Protecting and promoting health at work
This field focuses on how work affects health and how health affects work. It guides our approach to prevention: reducing psychosocial risks, managing fatigue and burnout, and building sustainable work practices that protect long-term wellbeing and performance.
Positive Organizational Psychology
Helping people and teams thrive
Rather than only fixing what's broken, positive organizational psychology studies what makes individuals, teams, and organizations flourish. It informs how we build psychological capital, foster psychological safety, and develop leaders who create supportive, high-performing cultures.
Building Psychological Capital
The HERO Within You — and Your Organization
Psychological capital is a research-backed framework of four inner resources that predict performance, resilience, and satisfaction — for individuals and teams alike. We help you strengthen all four.
Hope
The ability to set meaningful goals and find pathways to achieve them — even when obstacles appear. Hope is not wishful thinking; it's goal-directed energy.
Efficacy
Confidence in your ability to take on challenges and put in the effort to succeed. When efficacy is strong, people step up rather than hold back.
Resilience
The capacity to recover from setbacks, adapt to difficulty, and move forward stronger. Resilience can be developed — in individuals, leaders, and entire teams.
Optimism
A realistic, positive outlook that attributes good outcomes to lasting causes and sees setbacks as temporary and specific. Optimism fuels persistence and wellbeing.
Our programmes, coaching, and training are designed to build these capacities in individuals, leaders, teams, and organizations — creating sustainable human performance.
Our Continuum of Support
Prevention, Early Intervention, and Recovery
Within an occupational health psychology framework, we provide support across three levels — so help is available at every stage, not just at crisis point.
Building Strength Before Challenges Arise
Proactive support that builds capacity, resilience, and wellbeing at the foundation level.
- Brain health education and literacy
- Stress management and resilience training
- Psychological safety workshops
- Leadership development for wellbeing
- Psychosocial risk awareness
Early Intervention When Signs Appear
Targeted support for individuals or teams showing early signs of strain — before things escalate.
- Coaching for burnout prevention
- Fatigue management programmes
- Early wellbeing assessments
- Supportive intervention for at-risk groups
- Training needs analysis
Expert Recovery and Restoration
Compassionate, evidence-based support for those navigating significant challenges.
- Guided recovery and rehabilitation support
- Return-to-work programmes
- Specialist brain health consultations
- Ongoing wellbeing monitoring
- Employee assistance programme (EAP) support
Who We Serve
For Individuals and Organizations
Whether you're seeking personal support or looking for a partner to strengthen your organization's people strategy — we're here.
For Individuals
You don't need to be in crisis to benefit from expert support. Whether you want to perform better, manage stress, prevent burnout, or simply invest in your brain health, we offer a safe, stigma-free space to help you thrive.
- Peak performance coaching
- Stress and energy management
- Burnout prevention and recovery
- Fatigue management
- Brain health optimisation
- Resilience and psychological capital building
For Organizations
We work alongside leadership and HR teams to build healthier workplaces — reducing psychosocial risk, strengthening team capacity, and creating cultures where people can do their best work sustainably.
- Training needs analysis
- Psychosocial safety climate assessments
- Corporate brain health and wellbeing training
- Leadership and manager development
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Resilience and psychological capital workshops
Let's Talk
Ready to Invest in Brain Health and Human Potential?
Whether you're an individual looking for support or an organization looking for a partner — we'd love to hear from you. No pressure. Just a conversation.
For Individuals
Ask us about:
- Peak performance coaching
- Stress management
- Burnout prevention
- Fatigue management
- Brain health consultations
For Organizations
Ask us about:
- Training needs analysis
- Psychosocial safety training
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Corporate brain health training
- Leadership and wellbeing development
Our ultimate aim is to create psychological safety for individuals, foster a psychosocial safety climate for organizations, and help develop optimum brain health, sustainable performance, and human flourishing.
Better Brains. Stronger People. Thriving Organizations.
Dr. Hiro Koo Director
Dr. Hiro Koo is an interdisciplinary practitioner who works at the intersection of brain health, occupational health psychology, and organizational wellbeing. With over a decade of professional experience, he helps individuals optimise how they think, feel, and perform — and partners with organizations to build psychologically safe, high-functioning workplaces.
His academic foundation spans psychology, clinical hypnosis, traumatic stress studies, and applied neuroscience, culminating in a Ph.D. specialising in neurofeedback, clinical hypnosis, and expressive art therapy. He completed over 1,000 hours of supervised practicum in Industrial and Organizational Psychology with a focus on Occupational Health Psychology — an experience that deeply shaped his prevention-first, systems-aware approach to brain health and workplace wellbeing.
Dr. Hiro Koo is the innovator of the Neuro-Hypnotherapy method and holds professional credentials including Registered Psychologist (PSIMA, majoring in Industrial and Organizational Psychology), certified Master Trainer in Clinical Neurofeedback (S.B.C.I.A Singapore), Trauma-Informed Hypnotherapist (IMDHA), and Diploma in Cognitive Behavioral Hypnotherapy (UK.).
He completed clinical training in hypnotherapy and neurofeedback in Singapore and is a UK FHT Accredited Practitioner Diploma instructor and HRD Corp Accredited Trainer. His work integrates organisational neuroscience and occupational health psychology into practical, real-world support. Whether delivering brain health consultations, corporate wellbeing training, or leadership development programmes, Dr. Koo's focus is always on prevention — building resilience and psychological capital before challenges become crises, while providing expert, compassionate support when they do.
He also led the initiative to establish a national vocational training pathway for hypnotherapy under the Malaysian National Occupational Skills Standard (NOSS), Department of Skills Development — a milestone for professional recognition in the field. Dr. Hiro Koo's contributions have been recognised through several honours, including the Gold Medal Innovation in Counseling Award (PERKAMA, 2019), Hall of Wellness Asia Award (2020), Top 30 Finalist for JCI Ten Outstanding Young Malaysian (2021 & 2023), UTAR Outstanding Alumni Award for Creativity and Innovation (2022), and the Best of the Best Innovation Award at INNOCARE 2025 (Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris).
He currently serves as Leading and Development Director of New Mind Brain Health Centre at Wisma Life Care Diagnostic Medical Centre — where brain science, human care, and workplace realities come together.
在 New Mind Brain Health Centre，我们参考组织心理学与职业健康心理学的原则，提供一系列旨在优化大脑健康和绩效的服务。这些服务强调预防策略，重在通过改善工作和生活环境来预防和减轻心理压力和相关症状。我们的团队在一个安全、保密且无评判的环境中工作，致力于提高生活质量和缓解身心症状，这完全符合职业健康心理学中强调的工作场所心理安全和员工福祉的理念。
我们的服务不仅支持那些希望优化大脑表现的个人，也有专人能帮助那些经历创伤或其他心理状况的人寻找复健和支持。此外，我们还为有特殊需求的青少年提供帮助，改善他们在各种组织体系内的日常生活与学习能力，以及帮助提升职场人士的应对压力能力以及工作表现，这些都是组织心理学或职业健康心理学中推崇的提高工作效率和心理健康的策略。
我们的学苑和中心创始人，古健荣博士（Dr. Hiro Koo），领导的团队接受了全面的培训，包括新思维独特脑健康训练方法、生物反馈、神经反馈、心理学、潜意识理论、表达艺术技术和尖端应用神经科学方法。这些方法不仅促进了个体的脑健康，也为组织带来了持久的变革，这与职业健康心理学中关于维护组织和员工长期健康和表现的目标是一致的。通过我们的服务，个人和组织可以实现更高的心理福祉和性能表现，从而建立更健康、更有韧性和高效的工作环境。
通过我们官网中的中文版脑健康资讯文和英语版的博客，您可以获得有关大脑健康的全面性讯息；如此一来，您将可以更了解个人所需要采取的辅助方案或疗法，其中包括有：
关于大脑健康的心理教育
生活与环境的导引
QEEG式全脑检测
临床脑电生物反馈训练
独家的脑健康训练方案
New Mind Academy所提供的课程是由New Mind Sdn Bhd(1300336-D)负责处理行政事务的。New Mind Sdn Bhd是一个在吉隆坡提供Training and Consultancy的中心，除了课程训练也提供服务以帮助个人与企业的成长。我们如今在线上为你提供国际认证催眠课程，让大家有机会以中文媒介语学习与提升。
We look forward to helping you achieve your goals!
Additional reading: Our Mandarin Info and English Blog (Founder's personal blog)
