About Roy
Roy Ka Yiu Lam is a counsellor who uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people work through anxiety, stress and relationship strain. He holds a BACP credential and brings eight years of counselling experience to his work in the United Kingdom. Roy speaks English and Cantonese and accepts international clients.
Roy combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people notice patterns and try different ways of responding. He keeps sessions focused and straightforward, helping clients identify unhelpful thoughts and try small, manageable changes.
How Roy works
Conversations often include looking at emotions behind difficult moments and practising new ways to connect with others. Common concerns Roy supports include stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and career questions. He also works with people facing relationship and family problems, grief, intimacy-related issues and parenting strain.
Additional areas he addresses include addiction, immigration-related stress, attachment and abandonment concerns, and issues linked to hearing impairment and HIV/AIDS. Sessions can be delivered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which helps fit therapy into busy lives.
Roy aims to match the style of work to what each person needs, whether that means structured exercises, emotion-focused conversations, or a mix of both. He draws on previous experience in human resources and volunteering to offer practical support. To begin, people use the site’s Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire.
Scheduling is arranged after matching, and sessions are provided through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
Roy lists 2 ways of working on the entry:
What Roy works with
The areas below are the ones Roy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Sexuality
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English, Cantonese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How CBT and EFT work online with this counsellor
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and trying small experiments to change them. It is practical and often useful for anxiety, low mood and stress by giving clear steps people can practise between sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and name emotions and how those feelings shape relationships. This approach can be helpful for people dealing with attachment issues, intimacy concerns and communication problems by opening new ways to respond to emotional triggers. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then suggest a way of working that fits. That might be mostly CBT tasks, emotion-focused conversations, or a blend of both decided together. Online sessions offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family and travel commitments, while allowing the counsellor to use the same CBT exercises and emotion-focused work as in-person therapy.Start online instead of waiting
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