Cheryl Ding

Hi, I am Cheryl Ding, a KvK-registered counsellor based in the Netherlands and author behind the social media accounts: @莱茵河畔的咨询师Cheryl and @荷陌生人不期而遇. Offering both online and offline counselling, I’m open to discussion when it comes to travelling to the visitor’s location on special occasions.

I grew up in canal village Wuxi, China. After graduated from Southeast University in Nanjing, I oversaw recruitment and training in a Top 500 enterprise and was certified as an international career coach by the Myers-Briggs Company. Driven by empathy for individual well-being, I transitioned into counseling. I studied psychology and sexology at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and further trained in gender studies, migration, intercultural communication, sustainable living, and social work at Lund University in Sweden. Alongside, I take part in ongoing personal therapy, group therapy, supervision, and intervision from professionals across theoretical orientations from China, the UK, the US, and New Zealand.

I work with adult individuals, couples, and groups. I offer counseling in Chinese (Mandarin, Wu), English, and Dutch.

I focuse on queer feminism, sex and intimacy, immigration and interculturalism, diverse relationships, ageing, end-of-life issues, grief, neurodiversity, etc. I am one of the few counselors in the Chinese-speaking world who has been working with polyamory (also known as ENM) for a long time.

I ( previously) work voluntarily for Leiden University, Beijing LGBT Center, Bi+ Group China, and GenderDream.

I am an integrative counselor with an embracing and inspirational style. My main approaches include psychodynamic, systemic family, existential-humanistic (gestalt), CBT, DBT, and postmodern therapies (mindfulness, multicultural, solution-focused, narrative, and feminist therapy).