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Yang Peng, BACP

Credentials: BACP
Experience: 6 years
Practising in: United Kingdom
Languages: English, Mandarin
Sessions: Online only
Client ages: Adults, 18 and over

Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesGrief Self esteem Depression

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Yang Peng is a bilingual counsellor who offers sessions in English and Mandarin. She is a BACP member and brings six years of experience working in mental health settings. Yang aims to create a calm, understanding space where people feel seen and heard.

Yang trained with a Master’s degree in Person-Centred Experiential Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice from the University of Nottingham. Her earlier studies were in psychology in China, and she has worked in a range of roles since 2015.

Background and approach

Those roles include volunteering and paid counselling in hospices, helplines, and community services. Across her work she has supported people facing stress, anxiety, depression and grief. She has also offered help for relationship tensions, self-esteem struggles, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger and bipolar-related concerns.

Yang has experience with trauma-related issues and with people wanting support for life transitions and coping with compassion fatigue. She uses client-centred therapy to focus on each person’s perspective and build a trusting therapeutic relationship. Yang also practises Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, often used when people are processing difficult memories.

Her approach is warm and straightforward, aiming to make sessions clear and practical. Sessions are offered online in several formats so people can choose what fits their day. Yang encourages a collaborative process, helping clients set goals and try steps that match their needs.

She aims to help people make sense of difficult feelings and find ways to move forward.

How Yang uses client-centred work and EMDR online

Client-centred therapy focuses on the person in front of the counsellor. It involves listening carefully, reflecting what is said and helping the client shape their own goals. This approach suits worries about self-esteem, relationships, life purpose and coping with change.

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, or EMDR, helps people process distressing memories and the emotions tied to them. In practice this means working together to identify upsetting memories and then using guided bilateral stimulation alongside talking to reduce their intensity. EMDR can be helpful for trauma-related symptoms and distress linked to past events.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Yang will discuss goals, preferences and what feels right, and then try methods together. The approach can be adapted as progress is made and new priorities emerge.

Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy week. Video calls offer face-to-face interaction, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and brief live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins or notes between sessions. These options give flexibility and help people maintain continuity of care when schedules change.

What issues does this counsellor help with?

Yang works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression and grief, plus relationship and intimacy-related issues and problems with eating or sleeping.

What style of therapy is used in sessions?

Sessions draw on client-centred therapy, which focuses on the person’s experience, and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) for processing difficult memories.

How much clinical experience does she have?

Yang has six years of experience working in mental health roles, including hospice volunteering, helplines and community counselling services.

What professional credentials and region are listed?

She is a BACP member and is based in the United Kingdom.

Which languages are available for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English and Mandarin.

Can people outside the UK work with this counsellor?

International clients are accepted so people outside the United Kingdom can work with her.

What session formats are offered?

Therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different preferences.

How does the cost and subscription work?

Costs vary by location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

Areas of focus

What this therapist works with

Most often

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Grief

Also listed

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 6 years
Registered with: BACP
Languages: English, Mandarin

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Yang Peng, BACP

Background and approach

How Yang uses client-centred work and EMDR online

Areas of focus

What this therapist works with

Others working with stress, anxiety