Lisa Wan, BACP

Lisa Wan offers an integrative, person-centred counselling style that draws on attachment, mindfulness, solution-focused and trauma-informed ideas. She puts relationship and listening at the centre of sessions and aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk about what matters most to them.

She has been practising in therapeutic roles for nine years and previously trained as a Holistic Therapist in 1998. That background means she pays attention to how physical wellbeing and daily routines interact with thoughts and feelings. She uses simple mindfulness and grounding tools alongside conversational work to help with stress and sleep problems.

Her experience includes work with community organisations supporting women and male survivors of sexual abuse and rape. She has supported people with anxiety, depression and complex trauma, and continues to attend professional development to keep current with methods that help clients feel steadier.

People come to her for many concerns, including grief, self-esteem problems, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, chronic pain, illness and disability, workplace problems, and coping with life changes. Sessions are shaped around each person’s situation and goals, with practical steps and quieter reflective work as needed.

Lisa is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP - and works in line with its ethical framework. She offers help in English and accepts clients from the United Kingdom and internationally. If someone is unsure what to expect, she encourages an initial conversation to see if her way of working feels right.

How integrative approaches work in online counselling

Attachment-based ideas focus on patterns in relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions. In practice this means talking about how someone connects with others and gently testing new ways of relating that reduce anxiety and conflict.

Client-centred work places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens without judgement, reflects what she hears and follows the pace the person sets, which can help with low mood, self-esteem and grief.

Mindfulness techniques are used to reduce stress and improve sleep. These are short, practical exercises people can try between sessions to notice thoughts and calm the body during difficult moments.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss goals and preferences and together they will choose or combine methods that suit the person’s needs. That conversation is collaborative and can change as progress is made.

The original biography does not list which specific online or in-person session formats are used, so please confirm the available format options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed, while still enabling the same conversational and practical tools used in face-to-face work.