About Yau
Yau Tak "Marco" Lee helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues around addiction and self‑esteem. He also supports people dealing with sleep problems, parenting strain, career questions, ADHD and bipolar-related difficulties. Marco is based in the United Kingdom and speaks English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Marco approaches therapy from a person-centred place. He listens first and aims to understand each person’s experience. Sessions focus on building trust, naming what is hard, and finding concrete steps that feel manageable between meetings.
How Yau works
He mixes several methods to suit each person. Cognitive behavioural therapy is used to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns. Attachment-based ideas help address long-standing relationship patterns and how they affect trust and closeness.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing can be offered when traumatic memories are getting in the way of day-to-day life. Marco brings seven years of clinical experience and holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That registration is noted as part of his professional background and practice in the UK.
Many people come to discuss practical coping skills and clearer ways to manage strong emotions. Sessions aim to increase self‑awareness, build emotion regulation tools, and help people make choices that match their values. Over time the goal is better day-to-day functioning and more confidence when facing life’s challenges.
Yau lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Yau works with
The areas below are the ones Yau selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English, Mandarin, Cantonese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can use conversation and exercises to spot attachment patterns, practice new ways of relating, and rehearse different responses to closeness and distance. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and replace them with clearer actions. In online meetings this often means talking through recent examples, setting small between-session tasks, and reviewing how those actions changed feelings or situations. Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a method used for reducing the emotional intensity of traumatic memories. When offered online it combines careful preparation with guided processing exercises adapted for remote work.Working out the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and past experience and then suggest which methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can be revisited if something does not feel helpful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work when visual connection matters. Phone sessions take less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing their thoughts. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to fit therapy into a busy life.
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