About Tsz
Tsz Yan Elizabeth Yau supports people coping with stress, anxiety, addiction and grief. She helps with low self‑esteem, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, eating and anger issues, career strain and life changes. Elizabeth uses straightforward conversation and practical activities to help people take the next step.
She draws on three years of therapy experience and holds BACP credentialing. Elizabeth also has a background as a social worker in Hong Kong, where she worked with people facing imprisonment, substance use and complex mental health needs.
Background and approach
This experience informs her calm, non‑judgemental approach. In sessions she blends client‑centred listening with cognitive and skills‑based work. That means she starts by understanding your priorities, then uses practical strategies to manage thoughts, emotions and behaviour.
She may suggest exercises to practise between sessions. Elizabeth sometimes includes creative methods alongside talking. She is a certified Zentangle teacher and a teacher of Japanese Nagomi Art, and uses mindful art materials when clients want a different way to reflect and process feelings.
She also offers hypnotherapy and has completed relevant registration for that area. When helpful, she can use personality tools such as the Enneagram and Personality Dimension to deepen self‑understanding. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs and pace.
Approaches that suit online therapy and practical needs
Elizabeth blends client‑centred therapy with cognitive behavioural therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy. Client‑centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding your priorities so you feel heard and guided. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at thoughts and behaviours and uses practical exercises to reduce anxiety or change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behaviour therapy teaches emotion regulation and coping skills for intense emotions and crisis moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elizabeth will discuss your goals and preferences and suggest which methods might help most. The plan is collaborative - she adapts techniques and pace to what feels useful for each person.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text‑based messaging. Video lets you use face‑to‑face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break. Live chat or messaging can be a shorter check‑in or a way to work without being on camera. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, caregiving or travel.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Elizabeth help with?
How would you describe her way of working?
What is her background and experience?
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
Which languages can sessions be conducted in?
What session formats are available?
How are costs and payments handled?
How do I begin working with her?
What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, Cantonese
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.