Wai Kan
Supportive, practical talk therapy
About Wai
Wai Kan uses evidence-informed talking therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety and depression. He believes people carry strengths that can guide them through hard times. He invites straightforward, respectful conversations about what feels most urgent to the person sitting opposite him.
Wai draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioural techniques and client-centred listening. He tailors sessions to the person’s goals, whether that means reducing panic, improving sleep, or coping with grief.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build practical skills and clearer ways to think about difficult feelings. Wai has nine years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration. Over that time he has helped people with relationship concerns, addictions, trauma, bipolar mood issues and a wide range of stress-related problems.
He also works with concerns around intimacy, body image and sexual expression including kink and BDSM contexts. In appointments he offers a calm, direct style and focuses on what the person wants to change. Therapy can include short skills practice, compassionate reflection and planning small steps that can fit into daily life.
He will work at a pace the person finds manageable. Sessions can be arranged online or by phone and are suited to people wanting a practical, supportive approach. Moving through grief, adjusting after loss, addressing compassion fatigue, or learning to manage ADHD-related challenges are among the areas he commonly addresses.
What Wai works with
How Wai works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Wai commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy alongside an empathic client-centred stance. ACT helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that match their values, which can be useful for anxiety, stress and life transitions. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at patterns of thought and behaviour and teaches practical steps to reduce symptoms such as panic, low mood or sleep problems. The client-centred approach means sessions are built around the person’s own priorities and the therapist listens without judgement.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Wai will talk through different options with the person and together they will pick methods that fit the person’s goals and comfort level. That collaborative decision is revisited as therapy progresses so techniques can be adjusted to be more or less active depending on results.
Online work is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel or family life and to continue care when circumstances change.
| 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
