Culturally Sensitive Psychotherapy
For South Asians, Indian Mauritians And Mixed Heritage Adults
If you have grown up navigating two cultures simultaneously, honouring the expectations of your family and community while trying to find your own place in Western society, you will know that this experience carries its own particular kind of weight. The pressure to succeed, to stay silent, to prioritise collective harmony over individual emotional need, and to carry shame that was never yours to carry in the first place.
As a British Indian Mauritian psychotherapist with a personal understanding of South Asian family dynamics, cultural identity and the emotional complexity of living between cultures, I offer a therapeutic space where you do not need to explain yourself from the beginning. I already understand the psychological landscape and I am here to help you navigate it.
South Asian And Other Mixed Heritage Mental Health Therapy Online
Specialist culturally sensitive therapy with UKCP accredited psychotherapist Tina Chummun. Supporting South Asian, Indian Mauritian and mixed heritage adults with cultural identity, intergenerational trauma and family dynamics. Online UK and globally. £80 per session.
What Is South Asian Mental Health Therapy?
South Asian mental health therapy is culturally informed psychotherapy that takes into account the specific psychological, relational and identity related challenges faced by South Asian, British South Asian, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Indian Mauritian and mixed heritage individuals living in Western societies.
It recognises that standard Western therapy models do not always account for collectivistic family systems, intergenerational expectations, cultural shame, the impact of migration, dual identity and the particular ways that trauma, grief and emotional distress are expressed and suppressed within South Asian diverse communities.
Who I Work With
I specialise in supporting (and not limited to):
- British South Asian, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan adults.
- Indian Mauritian and wider Mauritian heritage individuals.
- Mixed heritage adults navigating dual or multiple cultural identities.
- First and second generation immigrants processing cultural dislocation.
- South Asian women navigating family expectations, marriage pressure and identity.
- South Asian professionals experiencing burnout, perfectionism and people pleasing.
- Adults carrying intergenerational trauma, shame and emotional suppression.
- Those experiencing racial trauma, discrimination and microaggressions.
What We Might Explore Together
In your therapy sessions we may gently explore:
- The pressure to achieve, succeed and never burden your family.
- Shame, guilt and emotional suppression rooted in cultural expectations.
- Intergenerational trauma passed down through family systems.
- Enmeshment trauma and the difficulty of individuating within collectivistic families.
- The impact of racism, discrimination and microaggressions on your sense of self.
- Navigating relationships, marriage and family dynamics across cultural boundaries.
- Identity loss and the grief of living between two worlds.
- Your relationship with your body, food and cultural expectations around appearance.
- Your unique menopause journey and mental health within a South Asian cultural context.
My Personal And Professional Connection To This Work
I am British Indian Mauritian and a UKCP accredited psychotherapist. I understand from the inside what it means to navigate between the warmth and rootedness of South Asian collectivistic culture and the individualistic demands of Western professional and social life.
My doctoral research at The Open University focuses on the caregiving experiences of Indian Mauritian families supporting a loved one with dementia. This work has deepened my understanding of collectivistic family systems, cultural silence around illness and mental health, and the emotional burden carried by South Asian caregivers.
I am a regular contributor to national media on topics including South Asian mental health, intergenerational trauma and cultural identity. I am also an expert contributor to the MeNow Health app, a platform dedicated to supporting South Asian women through the menopause, bringing culturally informed therapeutic insight to one of the most underserved areas of South Asian women's health.
This is not just my clinical specialism. It is deeply personal work that I bring my whole self to.
My Own Therapeutic Journey
I know what it feels like to sit in the client's chair. I have experienced therapy myself and it changed my life in ways I could not have anticipated. It gave me the language for experiences I had carried silently for years, the permission to put down burdens that were never mine to carry, and the courage to build a life and a clinical practice rooted in genuine self-awareness rather than inherited expectation.
As a British Indian Mauritian woman, I also know what it means to seek that support within the context of a culture that does not always make space for individual emotional need. That is precisely why I am passionate about this work, because I want every South Asian adult who is ready to heal to have access to a therapist who truly understands their inner world. Not just professionally. Personally.