Wing Yau
Practical support for stress and relationships
About Wing
Wing Yau introduces herself as a counsellor with over 11 years of practice in the United Kingdom. She speaks English, Mandarin and Cantonese and aims to make talking about hard things feel straightforward and manageable. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, anger, depression and difficult life changes.
She also supports those facing relationship issues, parenting strain, grief, trauma and problems with eating or sleeping. Wing works with matters such as addiction, ADHD, self-esteem, career concerns and compassion fatigue as well.
Background and approach
Wing draws on a mix of approaches to suit each person. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns, and Attachment-Based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current ones. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills and a client-centred stance also shape her sessions when helpful.
Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer communication. People can expect to practise small changes between meetings and to build coping tools that fit daily life. Wing emphasises a calm, respectful atmosphere where questions and doubts are welcomed.
Her background spans individual counselling and work with relationship and family concerns. Over the years she has guided people through rebuilding communication, managing strong emotions and adapting to life transitions. She invites clients to take things at a pace that feels right for them and to set goals that matter in their everyday lives.
What Wing works with
How Wing works
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Listed by Wing among the ways they work.
Listed by Wing among the ways they work.
Listed by Wing among the ways they work.
Listed by Wing among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How Wing matches approach to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name their values and take small steps towards them, even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It can help with anxiety, low mood and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on spotting patterns of thinking and testing them with practical experiments, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current behaviour and interaction patterns, which can be useful for relationship strain and intimacy issues.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Wing works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs and preferences. Together they try techniques, review what helps and adapt the plan so it stays useful as things change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversations while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel, and to keep continuity when life gets busy.
| 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
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, Cantonese
