There is only one thing I dread:
not to be worthy of my sufferings.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pan Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy in English and Mandarin for the patterns, losses and longings beneath the surface
For adults, young people and couples facing anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, self-loss, emotional overwhelm, life transitions, and patterns that have become difficult to change.
Yinxue Pan
UKCP trainee psychotherapist
CBT practitioner | NHS Talking Therapies practitioner | BABCP registered
Therapy available in English and Mandarin
When understanding is not enough
Many people come to therapy after a long time of carrying things alone.
Life may function well on the surface: studying, working, earning, performing, parenting, caring ...
But somewhere inside, something has become strained, repetitive, or quietly unbearable.
A familiar place returns.
The same shame. The same fear. The same loneliness. The same anger. The same numbness. The same longing. The same loss of voice, body, choice, or aliveness.
You may understand where it comes from. You may have words for the pattern. And yet, understanding has not reached the place where the wound lives.
Psychotherapy is a space for that deeper meeting. Not a quick solution. Not advice from above. Not another demand to improve yourself. But a sustained, confidential relationship in which the hidden shape of your suffering can begin to be seen — and where something in you may slowly become able to move, speak, grieve, choose, and live differently.
Therapy across language, culture and soul
Sessions can be in English, Mandarin, or a mixture of both.
For some people, language is not only a tool of communication. It is where memory, shame, tenderness, anger, duty, grief and belonging are stored.
Some things can be said in English, but not in Chinese.
Some things can be said in Chinese, but lose their depth in English.
Some parts of the self only appear in the crossing between languages.
I work with English-speaking clients, Mandarin-speaking clients, Chinese students, bicultural adults, international families, intercultural couples, and people who feel caught between cultures, roles, loyalties and versions of themselves.
You do not need to translate yourself into a simpler person here.
中文心理咨询可预约。
来访者可以使用中文、英文，或在两种语言之间自然切换。
Before therapy
You do not need to arrive with a clear story.
Often, therapy begins with something much less organised:
a pressure in the chest,
a relationship that keeps wounding,
a life that looks acceptable but feels increasingly far away from the truth.
It may begin with grief, anxiety, depression, shame, family conflict, divorce, separation, cultural displacement, parenting difficulty, or the painful recognition that you no longer know where you have gone.
The work is not to force change.
It is to create the conditions in which truth can be approached without collapse,
and change can emerge from a deeper place than self-criticism.
About me
Welcome. I am Yinxue Pan.
I offer one-to-one psychotherapy for adults and young people, and therapy for couples by arrangement.
My work brings together psychosynthesis psychotherapy, CBT practice, experience from NHS mental health services, and lived English/Chinese bicultural experiences.
Services
I offer individual psychotherapy, young people’s therapy, Mandarin and cross-cultural therapy, and couples therapy by arrangement. I run psychoeducational workshops and wellbeing events periodically.
Each piece of work begins differently.
Some people come with a clear problem. Some come with a relationship that keeps hurting. Some come because anxiety, depression, shame or numbness has become too difficult to keep carrying. Some come with no precise words yet — only the sense that something in life has become too far from the truth.
Therapy begins from where you are.
Individual Therapy
Adults
Individual Therapy
Young People
Individual Mandarin
Cross Cultural Therapy
Couple Therapy
Workshops
Wellbeing Events
Beginning therapy
The first session is an initial consultation. It gives us time to understand what brings you here, what kind of support you are looking for, and whether my way of working feels appropriate for you.
An initial consultation does not commit you to continuing therapy.
Contact
For practical questions about availability, language, location, timing or payment, please contact me by email, phone or the contact form. To arrange an initial consultation, use the booking button.
Tel: +44 (0)7516 719951
Email: yinxue@panpsychotherapy.com
You are welcome to contact me in English or Chinese.
中文咨询可用中文联系。
Sessions are available in English, Mandarin, or both.
