Shiao-Wei Lin
Calm, practical counselling for life changes
About Shiao-Wei
Shiao-Wei Lin offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, low mood, or problems with sleep and self-esteem. She uses straightforward language and a warm listening style to help clients sort out immediate worries and long-standing patterns. Shiao-Wei holds BACP, which stands for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
She has practised for 10 years and draws on a human-centred approach that respects each person’s background and values.
Background and approach
Sessions are arranged to meet the needs and rhythm of the individual. Her way of working is collaborative. She listens first, then helps people map out what matters most to them.
Practical steps and short-term goals often sit alongside deeper reflection, depending on what feels most helpful. She draws on a mix of methods including client-centred work, cognitive behavioural ideas, solution-focused tools and Internal Family Systems. That combination lets her address both clear problems like sleeping or cravings and more complex issues such as family of origin wounds or grief.
Sessions are offered in English and Mandarin and can be run online by video, phone, live chat, or messaging. Shiao-Wei aims to help people regain balance, reduce overwhelm, and move toward clearer choices about their next steps.
What Shiao-Wei works with
How Shiao-Wei works
Listed by Shiao-Wei among the ways they work.
Listed by Shiao-Wei among the ways they work.
Listed by Shiao-Wei among the ways they work.
Listed by Shiao-Wei among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How these approaches work in online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding your experience without judgement. It helps people feel heard and build trust, which can open the way to clearer choices about relationships, self-esteem and life direction.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions are linked. It uses simple, practical steps to change unhelpful patterns and can be useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems and coping with stressful events.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The counsellor will talk with you about your goals and try different tools to see what fits. This collaborative process means methods can be adjusted as needs and priorities change.
Online sessions can be arranged by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is good for a full face-to-face feel, phone works well if bandwidth is limited, chat or messaging suit brief check-ins and people who prefer not to use video. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or travel and let people choose the format that best matches their daily life.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Mandarin
