Online • outdoors • ad-hoc sessions
Multicultural & Neuro-Affirming Counselling in the UK and overseas
Helping you shift from overwhelm and self-doubt
to clarity, self-trust, and balance
Online • outdoors • ad-hoc sessions
Multicultural & Neuro-Affirming Counselling in the UK and overseas
Helping you shift from overwhelm and self-doubt
to clarity, self-trust, and balance
Multicultural and neuro-affirming counselling.
Most of my clients are multicultural or cross-cultural adults, and many are also neurodivergent. I support adults in the UK and other parts of the world.
As an adult Asian Third-Culture Kid* who came to understand my ADHD later in life, I can deeply relate and feel especially drawn to this work.
These identities and experiences are often layered, and many people have learned to be strong, adapt and perform in order to belong and feel accepted, valued or enough.
You might appear capable and like you are coping on the outside, while inside feeling anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected, or mentally and emotionally exhausted.
If you have been carrying a lot, adapting for much of your life and still somehow feel too different, too much or not enough, I’m glad you’re here.
In counselling, we can make sense of what you have been carrying and explore how you can meet yourself and your needs with more compassion and care.
Learn more about multicultural and neuro-affirming counselling.
*Third-Culture Kid meaning: Someone who spent a significant part of their developmental years living between cultures or outside their parents’ or passport culture.
Common areas I support in counselling
- Survival patterns that no longer help: You may feel exhausted by ways of coping that once helped keep you safe, such as overthinking, over-giving, over-adapting, perfectionism and people-pleasing.
- Emotions that feel difficult or consuming: Perhaps you have usually been able to compartmentalise your emotions, but lately you are running out of space. Anxiety, anger, sadness, hurt, guilt, resentment or emotional loneliness may be showing up more, and sometimes feel consuming.
- Self-doubt and a harsh inner voice: You may blame yourself quickly, rarely feel good enough, or worry that you are too sensitive, difficult or too much. This can make it hard to trust yourself, slow down, set boundaries and recognise your own needs.
- Identity, culture and belonging: You may feel caught between cultures, homes, expectations and roles, or carry uncertainty or shame around your identity. If you find yourself living between Asian and Western cultures, navigating different values, expectations and belief systems can feel complex and lonely.
- Past trauma and relational wounds: Childhood trauma, including Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN), and painful relational experiences may still affect how safe it feels to trust, connect and express your needs in relationships with family, friends, colleagues or partners.
- Loss, change and starting again: You may be grieving a person, relationship, home, identity or the life you thought you would have. Bereavement, moving country, career changes and shifts in relationships or identity can leave you feeling uncertain about yourself and the future.
- Neurodivergent experience and needs: Whether you have a diagnosis, self-identified, or are making sense of your ADHD later in life, you are welcome here. You may want to process and understand your experiences, masking, rejection sensitivity, identity and support your needs with more clarity, compassion and care.
You’re not alone. Your struggles don’t define you, and you don’t have to navigate them alone. We can work through them together.
Common areas I support in counselling
- Survival patterns that no longer help: You may feel exhausted by ways of coping that once helped keep you safe, such as overthinking, over-giving, over-adapting, perfectionism and people-pleasing.
- Emotions that feel difficult or consuming: Perhaps you have usually been able to compartmentalise your emotions, but lately you are running out of space. Anxiety, anger, sadness, hurt, guilt, resentment or emotional loneliness may be showing up more, and sometimes feel consuming.
- Self-doubt and a harsh inner voice: You may blame yourself quickly, rarely feel good enough, or worry that you are too sensitive, difficult or too much. This can make it hard to trust yourself, slow down, set boundaries and recognise your own needs.
- Identity, culture and belonging: You may feel caught between cultures, homes, expectations and roles, or carry uncertainty or shame around your identity. If you find yourself living between Asian and Western cultures, navigating different values, expectations and belief systems can feel complex and lonely.
- Past trauma and relational wounds: Childhood trauma, including Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN), and painful relational experiences may still affect how safe it feels to trust, connect and express your needs in relationships with family, friends, colleagues or partners.
- Loss, change and starting again: You may be grieving a person, relationship, home, identity or the life you thought you would have. Bereavement, moving country, career changes and shifts in relationships or identity can leave you feeling uncertain about yourself and the future.
- Neurodivergent experience and needs: Whether you have a diagnosis, self-identified, or are making sense of your ADHD later in life, you are welcome here. You may want to process and understand your experiences, masking, rejection sensitivity, identity and support your needs with more clarity, compassion and care.
You’re not alone. Your struggles don’t define you, and you don’t have to navigate them alone. We can work through them together.
Hello & Welcome
I’m Star,
a neuro-affirming counsellor & Asian Third-Culture Kid.
As someone who grew up between cultures, I understand that cross-cultural life can be rich, layered, and meaningful, but it can also bring challenges that are sometimes hard to explain and work through on your own, or in relationships where your internal tension isn’t understood or validated.
I’m a BACP registered integrative counsellor. My neuro-affirming approach is shaped by my lived experience, ongoing professional training, learning from others experiences, and being supported by a neurodivergent clinical supervisor and peers.
I invite you to get in touch for a free 20-minute intro call and see how counselling with me can support you too.
Star Ginns
(aka: Lyn – Chinese / Ploy – Thai)
Hello & Welcome
I’m Star,
a neuro-affirming counsellor and Asian Third-Culture Kid.
As someone who grew up between cultures, I understand that cross-cultural life can be rich, layered, and meaningful, but it can also bring challenges that are sometimes hard to explain and work through on your own, or in relationships where your internal tension isn’t understood or validated.
I’m a BACP registered integrative counsellor. My neuro-affirming approach is shaped by my lived experience, ongoing professional training, learning from others experiences, and being supported by a neurodivergent clinical supervisor and peers.
I invite you to get in touch for a free 20-minute intro call and see how counselling with me can support you too.
Star Ginns
(aka: Lyn – Chinese / Ploy – Thai)
What Clients Are Saying
How can I help?
Through our work together, my clients often feel clearer, steadier and more able to meet themselves as a friend rather than a critic.
What you can expect from our sessions:
- A space where you don’t have to hold it all together. Here is where you can unmask, express and be yourself fully.
- Compassionate support as you get to know your emotions and the different parts of yourself with curiosity and kindness, rather than criticism.
- Get to know where your patterns might have come from and create more moments to pause and intentionally respond.
- Begin to build internal and external systems that support you from a place of care rather than blame or shame.
I’m an integrative, trauma-informed, and neuro-affirming counsellor. My approach is relational, culturally sensitive, and sessions usually feel informal rather than clinical. All parts of you are welcome here.
“It’s not about getting the feeling out of the mind, or hiding it, but about experiencing it with acceptance.”
-Carl Rogers
Services
Online Counselling
Online counselling that understands life between cultures and supports your neurodivergent needs with care, wherever you are.
Outdoor Counselling
If you’re based locally, counselling outdoors in Warwick, UK is also available. We can walk and talk or sit and chat in nature with fresh air.
Ad-Hoc Sessions
One-off or occasional 60-minute or 90-minute sessions to support you during a difficult time or to maintain your emotional wellbeing.
Ready for Another Way?
You don’t have to navigate complex feelings or life challenges alone.
Reach out for a free 20-minute intro call to explore empathetic, culturally sensitive, and practical support.