Lisa Wan, BACP

Lisa Wan is a BACP-registered counsellor with nine years of counselling experience in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship struggles, addictions and codependency. She also helps with self-esteem, sleep problems, anger and coping with life changes.

She trained originally as a Holistic Therapist in 1998 and shifted into person-centred counselling after noticing how much clients benefited from talk time. Over the past nine years she has worked with Leicester Woman’s Counselling Centre and First Step, supporting survivors of sexual abuse and rape and gaining experience with complex trauma.

Her practice draws on attachment-based and client-centred ideas alongside mindfulness and solution-focused techniques. That means sessions often look at how early relationships affect current patterns, while using practical steps to reduce immediate distress. Trauma-focused ways of working are used when past harm needs to be addressed carefully.

Sessions are conversational and grounded. She listens for repeating patterns such as people-pleasing or loss of self in relationships, and then helps people try different responses. Work may include short practical tasks between sessions, grounding or mindfulness exercises, and setting small goals to build confidence.

She keeps up professional development through workshops and supervision. She follows the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Ethical Framework and maintains professional checks such as DBS and GDPR compliance. International clients can be supported in English.

How her approaches translate to online counselling