Home, between two worlds
Re-imagining "home" and self between two worlds — expressive arts, narrative and drama, for Hong Kong people in the UK. Held in Cantonese.
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How are you?
A warm and reflective space to pause, and to explore how you relate to yourself and the world.
Book a free 15-minute call
If you are in crisis
This practice is not an emergency service.
Dr Alyse Hung, Clinical Psychologist (PsychD) · Registered with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist
We often forget to look after ourselves along the way. You don’t need to be in crisis to reach out: therapy can also be a way of slowing down, and of understanding how your past, your feelings and your relationships shape the way you meet the world.
In brief
- Who
- Dr Alyse Hung, Clinical Psychologist (PsychD). A psychologist, not a medical doctor — I don't prescribe medication.
- How
- Acceptance and commitment therapy, compassion-focused therapy and CBT, with creative methods where words feel insufficient.
- Specialist
- CBT-E, CBT-T and MANTRA — the treatments used in NHS specialist services.
- Where
- Online, across the UK (and elsewhere if your local rules allow therapy from a UK-registered psychologist). In person in London on request — [West Hampstead / Islington: to confirm]
- Languages
- English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien
- Fee
- £120 a session · [50] minutes · A free 15-minute call first
Therapy
One-to-one therapy for adults and teenagers, online or in London.
How I work
My approach is grounded in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), drawing on mindfulness and DBT skills for emotion regulation where they help. Where words feel insufficient, we may use creative, arts-based methods.
Therapy
One-to-one therapy for adults and teenagers. Online, or in person in London.
Acceptance and commitment therapy, compassion-focused therapy and CBT, with creative methods where words feel insufficient.
£120 a session · Open
What people bring
Anxiety, low mood and depression, trauma, difficult emotions, self-criticism, stress, and the strain of living between cultures. I mainly work with people whose difficulties carry low to moderate levels of risk and complexity, online or with a mix of online and in-person sessions.
Eating difficulties
I work in a specialist NHS eating disorders service and offer evidence-based treatment for anorexia, binge eating and body-image difficulties, including CBT-E (enhanced cognitive behavioural therapy for eating disorders), CBT-T (a ten-session form of it) and MANTRA (the Maudsley model of treatment for adults with anorexia).
Eating difficulties
Specialist, evidence-based treatment for anorexia, binge eating and body-image difficulties.
CBT-E, CBT-T and MANTRA — the treatments used in NHS specialist services.
£120 a session · Open
How it starts
- A free 15-minute call, to see whether working together feels right.
- A first session to understand what brings you, and what you’d like to change.
- Regular sessions at a pace that suits you. [Session length and typical number of sessions to confirm.]
Teaching, groups and talks
Teaching
Courses on emotion regulation and self-compassion.
Now running — a ten-week online course on emotion regulation, taught in Cantonese. New courses in preparation.
Groups
Coming
Small, structured groups.
[Group titles and dates to come.]
Talks
Open
For organisations and communities — stress, emotion regulation, team wellbeing and creativity.
In the UK and in Hong Kong.
Ask about a talk: [email address]
Collaborations
Open
Open to creative collaborations with artists, organisations and other practitioners.
Community
My community events and workshops are creative gatherings, not therapy. Taking part doesn't make anyone my client.
We can carry community forward, wherever we are.
Postcards from Somewhere
A free creative community morning — write or draw a postcard from somewhere that matters to you: a place, a memory, an imagined place or the future.
Psychological first aid
Free psychological first aid, offered as a volunteer with fellow clinical psychologists after the Tai Po fire in Hong Kong.
Listen Within
A gentle morning to slow down and listen to body and mind — yoga, breathwork, mindfulness and the arts. Free; it sold out.
Community Collage
A collaborative collage, made by everyone who stopped by — paint, tissue paper, yarn and leaves, around questions about empowerment, inclusion and hope.
Global Bubble Parade
Hong Kong's first Global Bubble Parade — a free public walk through Central, surrounded by bubbles, part of a movement for happiness and inclusion in more than a hundred cities.
Workshops in Hong Kong
Workshops for communities and companies on stress reduction, emotion regulation, team building and creativity.
About
Psychology, creativity and community.
I’m a clinical psychologist with nearly a decade of experience in mental health across the UK, Hong Kong and Africa — in hospitals, community services, schools and care homes. I currently work in an NHS eating disorders service.
My practice blends evidence-based psychology with the creative depth of the expressive arts. Together, we make sense of your experiences and develop practical ways of responding to difficulty with more flexibility, so you can move towards what matters most to you. Where words feel insufficient, we may use creative approaches to give feelings somewhere to go.
I offer culturally sensitive, LGBTQ+ affirming support, and I welcome people from all backgrounds. I work in English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Hokkien.
Outside the therapy room, I bridge psychology, creativity and community through inbetweenmind — community creative events in London, and before that in Hong Kong.
Credentials
- Title
- Dr Alyse Hung, Clinical Psychologist (PsychD)
- Registration
- Registered with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist · [HCPC registration number]
- Title note
- Clinical Psychologist is a protected title in the UK, granted on registration with the HCPC.
- Name on the HCPC register
- Yu Hung
- Other
- Diploma in Expressive Arts Therapy [institution — wording to confirm]
- [Hong Kong Institute of Clinical Psychologists — wording to confirm]
- Not a medical doctor
- A psychologist, not a medical doctor — I don't prescribe medication.
Languages
- English
- Cantonese
- Mandarin
- Hokkien