Rate Yatong Wen

Hi, I’m Yatong. I’m an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and therapist, and I work particularly with adults experiencing ADHD, anxiety, trauma, low self-worth, emotional overwhelm, and periods of feeling stuck or disconnected from themselves.

You may understand what you’re “supposed” to do, yet find that knowing isn’t always enough to change how you feel or respond. You might struggle with an overactive mind, procrastination, emotional intensity, self-criticism, burnout, difficult relationships, or patterns that keep repeating even when you can see them clearly.

My approach to therapy is warm, collaborative and practical, while also making space for deeper exploration. Rather than simply giving you advice or techniques, I want to help you understand what is happening underneath the surface—how your experiences, nervous system, relationships, beliefs and ways of coping have shaped where you are today.

I have a particular interest in working with neurodivergent adults, especially people with ADHD. Having lived experience of ADHD myself, I understand that difficulties with motivation, attention, organisation and emotional regulation are not always solved by simply “trying harder.” Therapy can instead become a place to understand how your mind works, reduce shame, develop strategies that genuinely fit you, and build a life that works with rather than constantly against your brain.

I draw from approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), CBT, Internal Family Systems (IFS), attachment and trauma-informed therapy, mindfulness, somatic approaches and EMDR-informed principles. I adapt the work to the person rather than expecting every person to fit one therapeutic model.

My background includes community mental health, complex trauma, crisis and suicide intervention, neurodivergence and psychotherapy. I am also trained in psychedelic-assisted therapy and can support people making sense of profound, confusing or challenging experiences arising from altered or non-ordinary states of consciousness. This work is focused on psychological integration rather than the provision of psychedelic substances.

As a bilingual therapist who works in both English and Mandarin, I also understand that mental health can be inseparable from culture, migration, family expectations, identity and the experience of living between different worlds.

Most importantly, I hope therapy can be a place where you don’t have to perform being well or arrive with everything figured out. We can start with what is happening for you now, make sense of it together, and gradually find a way forward that feels more grounded, workable and genuinely your own.