Tsz Yan Elizabeth Yau
Compassionate, creative counselling for life challenges
About Tsz
Tsz Yan Elizabeth Yau helps people facing anxiety, stress, addictions, trauma, grief and low self-esteem. She supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, eating and anger issues, career strain, depression and major life changes. She also addresses family of origin problems, immigration and end-of-life matters.
Tsz Yan works in English, Mandarin and Cantonese and practices from the United Kingdom. Her background includes social work experience in Hong Kong and a range of roles supporting people with substance use and mental health needs.
Background and approach
She has experience with people affected by the criminal justice system and with those coping with loss and trauma. That practical experience informs how she tailors conversations and plans. Her clinical approach combines client-centred work with cognitive behavioural techniques and elements of dialectical behaviour therapy.
She also uses existential ideas to look at meaning and choice, and she offers hypnotherapy as another option. These methods are adapted to the person sitting across from her rather than applied as a fixed package. Alongside talking, she brings art-based activities into sessions and is trained in several creative methods.
She uses these tools when clients want alternative ways to reflect on feelings and patterns. The focus is always on finding approaches that fit the individual. She holds BACP credentialing and has three years of practice in the roles described.
New clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then book sessions according to the therapist's schedule.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches you can try online
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person and their experience. The therapist listens actively and helps people find their own solutions and build on strengths. This approach is useful for anxiety, self-esteem and coping with life changes.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses practical exercises and real-life experiments to shift unhelpful thinking and behaviour, which can help with depression, anxiety and addictive patterns.
Dialectical behaviour therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. It can be useful for anger, relationship struggles and emotional overwhelm.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss the options with the client and agree on what fits their goals and preferences. This collaborative process may combine elements from different approaches as needs change.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from a distance, phone sessions may suit those with limited bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel while keeping continuity with a registered or accredited professional.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, Cantonese
