​Wai Ying is a registered  Dramatherapist in the United Kingdom and practises in accordance to the ethics and guidelines of Health and Care Professionals Council. Pioneering clinical arts therapy in drama and movement with touch, sound, visual arts, puppetry, and psychotherapy in a clinical care setting at the Geriatric Specialist Clinic and acute ward for [1] persons living with dementia and/or behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. Her other focused areas are supporting moods and behaviours with [2] persons living with intellectual disability and with/without dementia, [3] persons needing palliative care, and also [4] caregivers needing support for their psychological wellbeing.

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With the assistance of the Overseas Arts Scholarship (2011) from the Singapore National Arts Council, she graduated with a Master of Arts degree in Drama and Movement Therapy (using the Sesame Approach) at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London, in 2012. She is the first qualified Singaporean Dramatherapist and featured in The Straits Times on the 9th February 2013. In the same year on 6th October, the Singapore Women’s Weekly Magazine awarded her in recognition of her trailblazing contribution to the society in the category of Arts & Media.

She is also a qualified early childhood educator, accredited by the Singapore's Ministry of Education - Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports Pre-school Qualification Accreditation Committee (MOE-MCYS PQAC) in 2007.

Prior to these, her involvement in theatre began as early as 1991 and the engagement turned professional after her completion in fashion design studies with Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts. She was invited to The Finger Players as a pioneering member (co-founded a children puppetry theatre company under The Theatre Practice in 1996). Through the years, she worked with many local theatre companies such as The Theatre Practice, Dramabox, Toy Factory Theatre Ensemble, Amp Theatre, Television Corporation of Singapore, Practice Performing Arts Centre and Paper Monkey Theatre. As a transdisciplinary artist, her professional work include costume designing, puppeteering, acting, production making, facilitating, curriculum developing in the fields of theatre and creative drama for young children. Partners she had also worked with were Singapore Media Academy, Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan - Arts & Cultural Troupe, Singapore Homeschoolers Association, Metta School and other primary and secondary schools in Singapore.

Wai Ying, thus has an extensive background in the areas of Theatre, Drama, Visual Arts and Drama-in-education. The diversity of her creative work garnered much respect among her peers and students.