Ray Chua is the author of the book, Virtual Realms, Real Needs: How to guide your children in a world of videogames. In this book, Ray shares about video-gaming and gaming addiction from the perspective of a clinical psychologist, an avid gamer and father of children who play games. He is passionate about the topic of gaming addiction and he has accumulated more than 10 years of experience in this domain.

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Ray is currently Senior Clinical Psychologist and Senior Manager at Community Psychology Hub. He leads other senior and junior psychologists to provide psychological services to social service agencies in Singapore.

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Ray was previously team leader and senior psychologist with the REACH (West) programme at the National University Hospital. He was also previously the Assistant Manager (R&D and Counselling) at TOUCH Cyber Wellness (TCW).

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At REACH (West), Ray was responsible for the Cyber Health & Internet Programme (CHIP). CHIP is a programme designed to treat gaming addiction. He had successfully treated many young people with gaming addiction for more than 10 years.

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At TCW, Ray led the research and development team to develop Cyber Wellness education materials for schools. He also led the counselling team which was known nationally for counselling gaming addicts. As a gamer for more than 30 years, he is able to build rapport easily with gamers.

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Ray was interviewed on numerous occasions on gaming addiction  on international and national media, including BBC, CNBC, Radio Australia, Channel News Asia and the Straits Times. 

 

He has also presented on numerous occasions to students, teachers, counsellors and parents at many schools and organizations on gaming addiction both locally and overseas. In 2011, Ray was part of the TCW team which was awarded the National Youth Award (Team), the highest Youth accolade in Singapore, for its work in Cyber Wellness.