About Hoi-Wing
Hoi-Wing Chan is a psychotherapist who helps people manage anxiety, stress and depression. He supports those coping with trauma and abuse, life changes, grief and relationship or intimacy concerns. He also assists with career difficulties, addictive behaviours, anger and issues around self-esteem and ADHD.
He works in English and Cantonese and practises from the United Kingdom. With 11 years of experience, Hoi-Wing adapts conversations to each person. He treats people with respect, sensitivity and compassion.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around what the client needs rather than a fixed formula. He uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time. That helps people understand how earlier experiences influence current feelings and reactions.
Jungian therapy informs his work on meaning, dreams and the deeper personal themes that can show up in relationships and life choices. Mindfulness practices are offered to help calm the body and focus attention. Simple grounding and breathing exercises are used alongside talk therapy to manage overwhelming emotions and reduce anxiety symptoms.
Hoi-Wing aims to support and empower people as they make changes. He helps set practical steps and small goals so progress feels manageable. The focus is on clear, down-to-earth conversations that move toward real improvement rather than abstract theory.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Hoi-Wing uses psychodynamic therapy to help people notice recurring patterns in relationships and feelings. This approach looks at how past experiences shape today’s reactions and helps bring those patterns into awareness so change becomes possible.He also draws on Jungian therapy to work with personal meaning and the symbolic parts of experience. That can include exploring dreams or recurring life themes to gain insight into long-standing struggles and identity questions.
Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to manage anxiety and strong emotions. Simple breath work and grounding exercises are taught and practised during sessions to give tools for use between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and is decided together. The therapist discusses needs, goals and preferences and adapts methods as therapy progresses so the work fits the person rather than the other way round.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is lower, and chat or messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make therapy flexible and accessible for different schedules and lifestyles.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Cantonese
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