COUNSELLING SERVICES
Life leaves marks.
Counselling is how you begin to understand them.
Sometimes those marks show up as anxiety, low self-worth, or a pattern of relationships that keep going wrong in the same way. Sometimes they show up as a feeling you can't quite name, a persistent sense that something is off, or that you're not fully present in your own life. Counselling is a space to slow down, look honestly at what's happening, and begin to understand it.
WHO THIS IS FOR
You don't have to be in crisis to deserve support.
Past trauma & childhood experiences
Including adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. For people ready to speak about something they've never fully named — or who have tried before but didn't feel safe enough to go there.
Relationship difficulties
Patterns that keep repeating. Relationships that keep breaking down in the same way. A difficulty connecting with people — even the ones you love.
Anxiety, stress & burnout
When the weight of life feels too heavy, you don’t have to carry it alone. Anxiety, low mood and burnout often overlap, leaving you exhausted, numb or on edge.
Low self-esteem, shame & the inner critic
A quiet drain on your confidence, a constant weight of self-doubt, and the tireless feeling that you aren’t enough. You’re getting through the days, but inside you carry a heavy burden.
Chinese professionals in the UK
Working hard, delivering results, and still feeling invisible or passed over. Navigating a workplace culture that doesn't always see you clearly, in ways that are hard to name but impossible to ignore.
Managing academic pressure, family expectations, and an identity pulled in two directions at once. Far from home, often struggling alone — with no one nearby who truly understands what you're carrying.
Chinese students in the UK
WHAT CHANGES
What becomes possible.
What changes is different for everyone, but clients typically find that the patterns that were running their lives — the reactions, the avoidance, the ways of relating to people that were never quite working — start to loosen. They begin to understand themselves in a way they didn't before. Relationships become less fraught. Decisions become clearer. And the past, while it doesn't disappear, stops being quite so present in every room.
“Yan is an excellent counsellor. Who genuinely cares she understands your challenges in life whilst maintaining her professionalism . I walk out of her sessions feeling heard and accepted for who I am . She makes me feel very comfortable and this has led me to open up with her .
COUNSELLING CLIENT
“Yan has been a guiding hand throughout my therapy. She has created a calm, reflective and empathetic space that has allowed me to move forward. I feel safe with her and trust that she listens whilst supporting me to go deeper. This is the first time in my adult life I have felt on the path to healing, and my work with Yan has been central to this.”
COUNSELLING CLIENT
"Yan's warmth and humanity provides a safe and accepting environment in which I feel able to open up and expose the maelstrom of emotions that I had buried and her rigorous analytical approach puts those feelings into context and perspective. At the heart of our relationship is an honesty that she enables. Our sessions always leave me feeling lighter"
COUNSELLING CLIENT
"I walk out of her sessions feeling heard and accepted for who I am. She has helped me come to a place of self-awareness — through her diligence, patience, and sensitivity."
COUNSELLING CLIENT