About | Your Identity & Belonging Counsellor

Ting 聽 is the Chinese character for listening.

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Ting Space grew from a belief in listening as a quiet, careful practice: listening without rushing to fix, staying with what matters, and making space for what may need time before it can be understood.

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Based in Hong Kong, I'm an identity and belonging counsellor working with adults, teens, and tweens navigating questions of who they are and where they belong – drawing on over 15 years in international education alongside my counselling training. Sessions run in person in Hong Kong and online for clients across Southeast Asia and Australia/New Zealand. My work is counselling-led and informed by ontological coaching, helping you understand the deeper patterns beneath your experiences and relate to yourself with greater clarity.

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The question “Who am I?” sits at the heart of much of my work. My interest in identity and belonging is both professional and personal. As an adoptee and Adult Third Culture Kid, I bring a lived sensitivity to questions of self-understanding, place, and change.

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I understand this from the inside, too. My own path has moved through several distinct careers, and across numerous cities and countries, each one asking its own version of who I am and where I fit. I've come to believe belonging isn't something you arrive at once and keep; it's something you keep rebuilding, especially when something that once felt certain begins to shift – a relationship, a role, a place, or a long-held understanding of yourself.

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Sometimes this shows up as simply not feeling like yourself anymore. Sometimes it's the work of letting go of one identity, or one expression of yourself, before you've quite stepped into the next – or carrying more than one at the same time, without yet knowing which one is truly "you." Whatever set that shift in motion – an event, a change in circumstance, or something moving within you – the unsettled feeling that follows isn't a sign that something has gone wrong. It's often where the most honest self-understanding begins.

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Some of that letting go is about what the old version of you represented – the values, the aesthetic, the way you showed up in the world, everything you had to offer when you believed in it wholeheartedly. It's possible to respect what it gave you and still know, clearly, that it no longer fits. And sometimes the harder part isn't knowing who you are underneath the change – it's not yet knowing how to allow that to show on the outside,
how to allow the way you present yourself catch up with what's already shifted inside.

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My work is counselling-led. This means we begin with emotional safety, care, and respect for your pace. Counselling offers a reflective, therapeutic space to explore emotional experience, identity, relationships, grief, uncertainty, and the experiences that have shaped you.

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My background in ontological coaching adds another dimension to this process. It helps us pay attention to how language, emotion, the body, relationships, and long-held stories shape your sense of self and what feels possible. Together, this supports both deeper understanding and meaningful change.

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In our work together, there is space to slow down, listen carefully to what is emerging, and begin to rebuild from a place of greater self-understanding. Clients often describe the space we share as calm and reflective – somewhere complexity can be explored without pressure to arrive at immediate answers.