Wai Kan, BACP

Wai Kan is a counsellor who uses practical, person-focused approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety and depression. He works with concerns such as relationship difficulties, grief and loss, and addiction-related struggles. His BACP registration is included in his professional details. Taking the first step can feel hard, and he aims to make that step manageable and clear.

He believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths to therapy. Sessions are conversational and aim to build on what already helps you. Wai draws on evidence-based methods to offer tools for day-to-day coping and clearer choices.

Wai has nine years of experience working with a wide range of issues. He supports people dealing with sleep problems, low self-esteem, anger and life changes such as bereavement or caregiving stress. He also works with people navigating identity and intimacy-related concerns.

In practice he mixes approaches to suit the person in front of him. That might mean noticing unhelpful thinking patterns, working on values and commitment, or exploring attachment patterns that affect relationships. The work is collaborative and paced to the client’s needs.

Wai accepts clients from the United Kingdom and internationally and holds sessions in English. If you want to begin, follow the site process to match with him and book a first appointment to see how the work feels.

How Wai's approaches work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and helping you take small committed steps towards those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns and teaches simple, practical techniques to change them over time. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship experiences shape current connections and helps people notice and shift patterns that cause distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Wai will talk with you about your goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped before. Together you will decide which methods to try and adjust them as the therapy progresses so the plan fits your needs.

Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy around everyday life, for example by reducing travel time or allowing shorter check-ins during a lunch break. The site process explains how to match and book a therapist, but please confirm the specific session options offered before you book so you know what format will be used.