Aaron Platt MA Counseling (La Salle) · MA Sociology (UC Berkeley) · BA Sociology (NYU) Characterological & Psychodynamic Tradition →

English-speaking therapy in Thailand.

Online therapy for expats and English speakers in Thailand. Private, portable, no local health records.

Schedule a free consultation How I work

English-speaking therapy in Thailand is concentrated in Bangkok and limited outside it. The options that exist tend toward structured, short-term work. If you're looking for sustained, depth-oriented therapy in English from wherever you are in Thailand, online is generally the only practical route.

I work with anyone who needs support in English and is living in Thailand. Relationship problems, a low you can't quite name, questions about themselves, something from the past, something present.

Ease isn't the same as wellbeing. You can be comfortable and not okay at the same time.

The work

The work I do is relational and pattern-focused. I don't run through intake checklists or assign exercises between sessions. I pay attention to what happens in the room: what you're saying, what you're not saying, the moments when something shifts or goes flat or speeds up. That's the material we work with.

Most people arrive already knowing the story of their situation. They've told it to themselves a hundred times and always land in the same place. What's missing is a different angle, someone watching in real time who can name what's invisible from inside it. That's what I offer. Not interpretation from a distance, but attention in the room, offered as it happens.

I work with individuals and couples. Individual work is usually about finding the pattern underneath the presenting problem, the thing that keeps recurring in different forms across different circumstances. Couples work is about finding what the argument is really about, which is rarely what it appears to be about. Both come down to the same thing: seeing what you haven't been able to see, and from there, actually being able to do something different.

Being in Thailand

Thailand, Bangkok and Chiang Mai especially, draws a range of people: professionals, retirees, digital nomads, people in transit. The life can be genuinely good. The ease can also become a way of not dealing with things; it removes the urgency that keeps some things from being looked at.

If that quality is part of what you're carrying, the pleasant life that isn't quite answering the harder questions, we can work with it. If what brings you is something else, that's fine.

What people bring to online therapy

The people I work with in English come for a wide range of reasons: anxiety, depression, stress and burnout, anger management, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, loneliness, self-esteem issues, procrastination, sleep problems, attachment patterns, self-sabotage, perfectionism, identity questions, and existential concerns. Online counseling makes this work possible from wherever you are, whether you need an English-speaking therapist, a virtual counselor, or simply someone who can work in your language at a depth that matters.

How it works

Sessions are online via secure video call. I work with individuals and couples (60 minutes). Before your first session, we have a brief 15-minute call to see if this feels like the right fit for you.

What Clients Say

“I came in thinking I knew what my issues were. I’d been over them a hundred times. But those were just the things I could already see. Aaron helped me notice what I couldn’t, and that’s where everything actually started to change.”

“I didn’t think online therapy could really work. How do you feel a connection through a screen? But I’ve done in-person therapy before, and honestly, I’ve felt more understood by Aaron than by any therapist I’ve sat across from. He listens in a way that’s hard to describe until you experience it.”

“A few years ago I suddenly developed prolonged panic attacks but couldn’t begin to understand what had caused them. Having been in therapy in the past, and being a counseling intern student, I felt I had exhausted my resources trying to figure out “What is wrong with me?” I can honestly say Aaron provides a form of counseling that is difficult to find anywhere else regarding efficacy. Not only has his approach been effective, but he also has provided me a safe space to explore aspects about myself I may not otherwise have felt able to. I cannot recommend him enough as he has helped me feel more myself than ever before.”

“I’d been in and out of therapy for years. Different therapists, different approaches, none of it really stuck. Aaron helped me understand more in a few months than all of them combined. And he talked to me like a normal person, not like all this weird therapy-speak.”