About Wanda
Wanda Hagan is a BACP counsellor with 15 years of experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, sleep problems and depression. Wanda works to make sessions calm and straightforward so clients can say what they need to say without being judged.
She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques suited to anxiety, panic and obsessive thinking. In sessions she focuses on clear goals and practical steps that feel doable between meetings.
Background and approach
Conversations are paced so people can manage difficult memories and strong feelings safely. Wanda has worked with people affected by trauma and abuse and supports those coping with relationship breakdowns, infidelity and jealousy. She also has experience with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger syndrome, and long-term illness or chronic pain.
Her practice includes help for phobias, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive patterns, body-image worries and the emotional fallout from natural or human-caused disasters. She pays attention to how sleep problems and guilt or shame affect daily life and recovery. Sessions are offered in English and Wanda is open to working with international clients by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
She encourages people to take the first step, explain what feels hard, and try practical ideas that suit their life and goals.
Approaches that suit online therapy and anxiety
Wanda uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change. One approach she commonly applies helps people understand patterns of anxious thinking and learn step-by-step strategies to reduce panic and worry. This kind of work focuses on small experiments and breathing or grounding skills to lower immediate symptoms.She also uses methods that address repetitive thoughts and compulsive behaviours by teaching specific ways to notice and gently change habitual responses. These techniques aim to reduce time spent on compulsions and shift attention toward chosen goals and activities.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Wanda works with each person to decide which methods feel helpful and realistic. Together they review what matters, try different ways of working, and adjust the plan based on progress and personal preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for a fuller conversation when visual cues matter. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and messaging can suit short check-ins, brief reflections between sessions, or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel.
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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
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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