Wanda Hagan
Experienced counsellor helping with stress and anxiety
About Wanda
Wanda Hagan is a counsellor with 15 years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation, and she supports people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, sleep problems and depression. Her approach is practical and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel steadier and more able to manage day-to-day life.
She creates a calm space where clients can talk through their thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment.
Background and approach
Conversations are paced to the individual, with the counsellor offering listening, reflection and practical ways to cope. The work often focuses on small changes that add up to noticeable improvements over time. Wanda also has experience with adoption and foster care matters, attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, body image concerns, and chronic pain, illness and disability.
She can help people work through communication problems, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, and the effects of infidelity or jealousy. Her practice includes support around obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours, panic attacks, phobias, and first responder challenges. She also offers help for those coping with disasters, whether natural or human-caused.
Sessions are shaped around what each person needs and what feels most helpful to them. Wanda works in English and accepts international clients. She aims to empower people to take the next steps toward a more manageable life, offering steady support while clients build their own coping skills.
What Wanda works with
Sessions & fees
How evidence-based approaches work online
Many therapists use evidence-based techniques that focus on clear steps and practical skills. One common approach helps people learn ways to manage anxious thoughts and physical symptoms through structured exercises and gradual exposure to feared situations. This can be useful for panic attacks, phobias and obsessive thoughts.Another approach emphasises understanding how past relationships shape current patterns and responses. It helps people notice attachment or communication habits and try different ways of relating that feel safer and more effective. This can be helpful for relationship difficulties, attachment issues and recovery from trauma.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The focus is on collaboration and finding what genuinely helps the individual move forward.
Online sessions offer flexibility and a range of formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier on busy days, and live chat or text messaging can provide short check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the work consistent and focused.
| 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
