About Lisa
Lisa Wan offers a calm, person-centred approach that puts the client at the heart of each session. She is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and brings nine years of counselling experience to her work with stress and anxiety. Her style is straightforward and approachable, aimed at people who want practical help and clearer thinking.
She combines several ways of working to meet individual needs. That includes attachment-informed ideas about how past relationships shape current feelings.
Background and approach
She uses mindfulness to help slowing thoughts and reduce reactivity. She also draws on solution-focused techniques to set small, achievable goals in everyday life. Lived experience of holistic therapy informs her practice.
Early work as a holistic therapist taught her the value of talking time as part of healing. Since then she moved into counselling and developed an integrative, client-centred style that fits the person in front of her rather than a single model. Her background includes counselling for community services that support survivors of sexual abuse and organisations working with women.
She continues to attend professional development workshops and receives regular clinical supervision to reflect on her practice. Sessions aim to feel practical and humane. People come for help with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, addictions, sleep problems and relationship or workplace stress.
Lisa adapts methods to the issue and the individual, keeping things clear and focused on what matters now.
How Lisa’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based ideas focus on how past relationships affect present feelings and patterns. In online sessions these ideas are used to understand why someone may feel anxious or disconnected and to build safer ways of relating to others.Client-centred work means the conversation follows the client's pace and concerns. The counsellor listens closely, reflects what she hears and helps the person find their own solutions, which suits video or phone conversations where spoken connection matters.
Mindfulness is taught with short, practical exercises to reduce racing thoughts and reactivity. These practices can be guided live during a video call or offered as brief written prompts in messaging between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through needs, goals and preferences and choose methods together. Sessions can shift as problems change, with regular check-ins to make sure the way of working still fits.
Online formats give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face dialogue and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio-only check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging suit short check-ins, written reflection or when someone wants to work without being on camera. These options make it easier to fit counselling into busy lives and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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