Online • outdoors • ad-hoc session
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 session
Multicultural & Neuro-Affirming Counselling in the UK and overseas
Helping you shift from overwhelm and self-doubt
to clarity, self-trust, and balance
Multicultural counselling and neuro-affirming support.
Most of my clients grew up between cultures, and many are neurodivergents.
As an adult Asian Third-Culture Kid* and someone who came to understand my ADHD later in life, I feel especially drawn to supporting multicultural and cross-cultural adults, as well as other neurodivergent people.
These identities and experiences are often layered, and many people have been conditioned to be strong, adapt, and perform in order to belong and feel accepted, valued, or enough. Often, the external presentation does not match the internal experience.
You might look capable and like you are coping on the outside, while inside feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or mentally and emotionally exhausted.
If you have been carrying a lot, adapting your whole life, and still somehow feel too different, too much, or not enough, I’m glad you’re here. We can work through this together.
Find out more about what is multicultural counselling, and what is neuro-affirming counselling here.
* Third-Culture Kid meaning: someone who grew up in a culture different from their parents’ or passport country, often moving between places. They develop a unique ‘third culture’ identity that blends influences from both their original and host cultures.
Common areas I support.
- Survival patterns: Overthinking, over-giving, over-doing, and over-adapting.
- Uncomfortable emotions: Anxiety, anger, insecurity, sadness, hurt, guilt, resentment, emotional loneliness.
- Relationship with yourself: Self-doubt, harsh self-criticism, self-blame and shame, not feeling good enough, or fear you might be too much.
- Boundaries difficulties: Emotional and time boundaries may be the hardest ones for you. You may feel highly sensitive to others' emotions, or feel responsible for their wellbeing.
- Identity, culture, and belonging: Personal identity and cultural identity confusion, belonging anxiety or fatigue, culture shock, reverse culture shock, and rootlessness.
- Relationships and relational wounds: You may have been impacted by past relational trauma or negative experiences, or Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), leaving you feeling anxious or detached in relationships.
- Life transitions: Bereavement and loss, moving country, starting over, career changes, and relationship or identity shifts.
You’re not alone. These struggles don’t define you, and you don’t have to navigate them alone. We can work through them together.
Common areas I support.
- Survival patterns: Overthinking, over-giving, over-doing, and over-adapting.
- Uncomfortable emotions: Anxiety, anger, insecurity, sadness, hurt, guilt, resentment, emotional loneliness.
- Relationship with yourself: Self-doubt, harsh self-criticism, self-blame and shame, not feeling good enough, or fear you might be too much.
- Boundaries difficulties: Emotional and time boundaries may be the hardest ones for you. You may feel highly sensitive to others' emotions, or feel responsible for their wellbeing.
- Identity, culture, and belonging: Personal identity and cultural identity confusion, belonging anxiety or fatigue, culture shock, reverse culture shock, and rootlessness.
- Relationships and relational wounds: You may have been impacted by past relational trauma or negative experiences, or Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), leaving you feeling anxious or detached in relationships.
- Life transitions: Bereavement and loss, moving country, starting over, career changes, and relationship or identity shifts.
You’re not alone. These 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.
I’m a BACP registered integrative counsellor. My neuro-affirming approach is shaped by my lived experience as a late-realised ADHDer, ongoing training, supporting other ADHD clients, 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.
I’m a BACP registered integrative counsellor. My neuro-affirming approach is shaped by my lived experience as a late-realised ADHDer, ongoing training, supporting other ADHD clients, 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?
My clients often come to me to feel clearer, steadier, and become more of a friend to themselves instead of 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.
My approach is relational, trauma-informed, and affirming of your lived experience. Your needs are at the centre of our work, not your deficits. 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
Get support that understands life between cultures and neurotypes from where you are.
Outdoor Counselling
If you’re based locally, outdoor counselling in Warwick, UK is also available—walk and talk or sit and chat in nature with fresh air.
Ad-Hoc Session
60 minutes or 90 minutes ad-hoc session to support you through those tricky times, or to help maintain your 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.