Online Therapy for Hong Kong, in English
Hong Kong asks a great deal of the people who live there. The hours are long, the stakes are high, and for many residents daily life happens a long way from family, first language and familiar ground. Pressure at work settles into a marriage. A relocation that suited one partner’s career unsettles the other. Children move between school in English and grandparents in another language. None of this means something is wrong with you — but it is a great deal to carry, and it is reasonable to want help carrying it.
Finding that help is often the hardest step. If you have already looked for an English-speaking therapist in Hong Kong, you may have met the familiar obstacles: fees that are not published anywhere, first appointments a long way off, and no easy way to tell who does what. We would like to make this simpler. Our fees are set out below, in full. Our booking calendar shows real availability. And you do not need a referral or a diagnosis to begin.
A Tokyo practice, one hour from Hong Kong
We will be straightforward about who we are. BeyondBleu is an online psychotherapy practice founded in Tokyo, working with clients across Japan and Asia in English, Japanese and Italian. We are not a Hong Kong medical provider and we do not have rooms in Central. Every session takes place online, over secure video.
For Hong Kong, the geography works unusually well. Hong Kong is one hour behind Tokyo, so our evening appointments fall in your evening — a session after work for us is a session after work for you. There is no waking at strange hours to reach a therapist in London or New York, and no lunch-hour dash across town to an office. The booking calendar shows every available time in your own time zone.
All sessions are offered in English. Therapy is also available in Japanese and in Italian — say which language you would prefer when you enquire and we will match you with the right clinician. Some people find it useful to work in the language a difficulty happened in, which is not always their first language.
Our fees
| Service | Session length | Fee | ≈ HK$* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual therapy | 50–60 minutes | ¥18,800 | ≈HK$920 |
| Child and adolescent therapy | 60 minutes | ¥18,800 | ≈HK$920 |
| Couples therapy | 90 minutes | ¥33,000 | ≈HK$1,610 |
| Family therapy | 80 minutes | ¥40,000 | ≈HK$1,950 |
*Approximate — your bank converts. All fees are billed in Japanese yen when you book. The Hong Kong dollar figures are a guide only; your card issuer converts on the day, at its own rate, so the yen price is the real price. Assessment fees include the written report, and the final assessment fee is confirmed at enquiry once we know what the assessment needs to cover.
Couples therapy for couples in Hong Kong
Couples work is the centre of this practice. Sessions are 90 minutes rather than the usual hour, because two people need time to speak and to be heard, and an hour rarely allows both. The fee is ¥33,000 — approximately HK$1,610 — for the full 90 minutes.
Our Clinical Director, Tumee Hugginson, is trained in the Gottman Method to Level 3 and integrates it with Emotionally Focused Therapy and depth-psychological work. The couples we see most are the couples a city like Hong Kong produces: two demanding careers and no unhurried time to talk; a posting that one partner chose and the other absorbed; intercultural marriages in which each partner argues in a different first language; and relationships working to rebuild trust after it has been broken. Read more about how we work with couples.
Ninety minutes changes what a session can do. There is time for each partner to say what has actually been happening, time to slow the familiar argument down and look at what drives it, and time to end the session somewhere steadier than it began. Nobody has to win the room in the last five minutes.
Because sessions are online, a couple does not need to be in the same room, or even the same city. Partners who travel for work, or who are temporarily living apart, can attend together from two places at once.
Every service, online
Couples work may sit at the centre, but the whole practice is open to Hong Kong — the same services, the same clinicians and the same fees as for our clients in Japan.
Individual therapy — for adults and young adults working with persistent worry, low mood, burnout, grief and loss, identity, and the particular strains of expatriate life. Read more about online individual therapy.
Child and adolescent therapy — for children and teenagers facing emotional or behavioural difficulty, school stress, friendship trouble, or family change, including moves between school systems. Read more about child and adolescent therapy.
Family therapy — for households working through conflict, transition, or the strain of relocation. Family members can join the same session from different cities, which suits families divided between Hong Kong and elsewhere. Read more about family therapy.
Who you would work with
Tumee Hugginson, Clinical Director (MA Clinical Psychology), works in couples therapy and depth psychology, with particular attention to trust repair and intercultural relationships.
Martina Bottazzo, psychologist (MA), offers individual therapy and psychological assessment for adults and young adults, in English, Italian and Japanese.
Dr Lorenzo Geirola, Clinical Neuropsychologist (PhD), provides individual therapy and neurocognitive assessment, with written reports in English.
Brandon Liu, psychotherapist (MS), certified in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, works with couples and individuals on recurring conflict, betrayal and trust, and cross-cultural relationships.
Full profiles, including each clinician’s background and languages, are on our therapists page.
Practical details
Sessions run on a secure video platform. You need a private space and a stable connection, nothing more. If you have not done therapy by video before, it tends to feel more natural than people expect: you are in your own space, and the conversation is the same conversation. What you bring to a session is confidential, within the usual professional limits concerning safety.
BeyondBleu is private pay, which is why no referral is needed and why the calendar shows appointments in the near term rather than months away. Many international insurance policies reimburse outpatient therapy wherever the provider is based — check your policy, and we will issue a receipt with whatever details your insurer asks for.
The first session is largely about understanding what brought you and what you would like to be different. Towards the end of it we will say what we think we could usefully do together and roughly how often we would meet. You are free to stop at any point, and you are not asked to commit to a block of sessions in advance.
You can change or cancel a session without charge up to 48 hours beforehand. Inside 48 hours, half the session fee is charged. A same-day cancellation, or a missed session without notice, is charged in full.
How to begin
The booking calendar shows every appointment currently available, displayed in your own time zone.
If you would rather write first, email info@beyondbleu.com or call +81-3-4362-0480 and say what you are looking for. If you are not sure which service fits, say that too — it is a normal first question and we will give you an honest answer. Our frequently asked questions cover booking, languages and what happens in a first session, and our fees for every service are also set out on the therapy costs page.
BeyondBleu is not a crisis service and we cannot respond to emergencies. In Hong Kong, The Samaritans offer a 24-hour multilingual hotline on 2896 0000, and emergency services are on 999. In Japan, よりそいホットライン (Yorisoi Hotline) is free and confidential on 0120-279-338, with support in English, and emergency services are on 119. Elsewhere, please use your local emergency number.