About Wai
Wai Kan blends practical talk with warmth to help people manage stress and anxiety. He works in the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation, and he brings nine years of professional experience to his practice. Wai uses straightforward, respectful language so conversations feel manageable even on a difficult day.
He focuses on everyday problems such as relationship strain, sleep difficulties, low mood, grief and loss, and addictive behaviours. He also supports people dealing with identity and intimacy concerns, eating and body image worries, workplace stress, and burnout.
How Wai works
He pays particular attention to attachment patterns and how those shape current relationships. Wai draws on a range of approaches to match each person's needs. He uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live by their values, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to spot and change unhelpful thoughts, and Client-Centred methods to create a respectful, non-judgemental space.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills appear in his work when people need tools for strong emotions. Sessions are practical and paced to the individual. He helps people set small, doable goals and practises skills together in session.
Conversations aim to be clear and useful rather than long lectures. Wai offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. International clients can be supported in English.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and a session is scheduled according to the options available.
Wai lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Wai works with
The areas below are the ones Wai selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approach-based therapy online for everyday challenges
Wai commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions and supports living in line with personal values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Wai will discuss goals and preferences with each person and decide together which methods suit their situation. That collaborative process helps shape the pace and tools used across sessions.
Online therapy with Wai can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quicker check-in and text messaging supports shorter, ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or other commitments and to use the format that feels most comfortable.
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