Lei Sorvisto

My practice is focused on working with international, cross-cultural, and globally mobile individuals and couples. Many of my clients are navigating life between cultures, countries, identities, or communities, and I understand the complexities that can come with living and working across different worlds.

To accommodate clients across multiple time zones, I offer evening sessions aligned to GMT. I am currently available for appointments on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays between 6:00pm – 9:00pm GMT.

All sessions are conducted online, allowing flexibility for clients based both within and outside the UK.

Living abroad can look exciting from the outside, but feel far more complicated on the inside. You may have built a successful life in another country, yet still feel lonely, unsettled, misunderstood, or unsure where you truly belong. You may be highly capable in your career, but find that relationships, identity, family expectations, or cultural differences are harder to navigate than anyone sees.

This is the heart of my work.

I specialise in therapy for expats, internationally mobile professionals, third-culture individuals, and people living between cultures, identities, and worlds. I also work with mixed-race and intercultural couples navigating differences in communication, attachment, belonging, family dynamics, and values.

My style is warm, thoughtful, discreet, and culturally attuned. Together, we look beneath the surface: at the patterns you have learned, the roles you have had to play, the parts of yourself you may have adapted or hidden, and the kind of life and relationships you now want to build.

Therapy with me is a space where you do not have to explain the complexity of living across cultures. It is a place to feel understood, think clearly, and reconnect with yourself, not just who you have had to become to survive, succeed, or belong, but who you are becoming now.

I’m Lei Sorvisto, a psychotherapist specialising in expat mental health, cross-cultural identity, and intercultural relationships. My practice is particularly suited to people who live internationally, love across cultures, work across borders, or feel they do not fully fit into one place, role, or identity.

Having lived and worked in China, Finland, Singapore, and the UK, I understand first-hand the emotional complexity of building a life away from your original root: the freedom and reinvention, but also the loneliness, dislocation, ambition, cultural negotiation, and quiet grief that can come with it.

Before becoming a therapist, I spent two decades in senior international leadership roles. This gives me a deep understanding of the pressures faced by executives, entrepreneurs, and global professionals who are expected to perform, adapt, and succeed often while carrying private uncertainty, relationship strain, or a sense of being emotionally unanchored.

My work brings together clinical training, cross-cultural sensitivity, and lived international experience. I offer online therapy for clients in the UK and internationally, creating a confidential, reflective space for those seeking not only support, but a deeper sense of clarity, belonging, and self-understanding.

I hold an MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health from King’s College London and an Advanced Diploma in Psychotherapy and Counselling from Regent’s University London. I am currently pursuing a PhD in Counselling at York St John University.

I charge the same rate for the assessment session as for the normal session.