Yatong Wen

Yatong Wen is an Accredited Social Worker (AASW) with four years of clinical experience in community mental health. He supports people who feel disconnected, overwhelmed or out of step with daily life. He often draws on his own experience of ADHD to relate to clients who find traditional approaches unhelpful.

Yatong uses straightforward, practical methods. He blends cognitive behavioural techniques with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and person-centred listening. That means sessions focus on spotting unhelpful thoughts, clarifying values, and practising small, doable changes.

He also brings trauma-aware thinking into the room. That helps when someone is processing past hurt, shame, or ongoing stress. Sessions attend to immediate coping skills as well as longer-term patterns that maintain distress.

People working with him can expect an emphasis on connection and clarity. He aims to make sense of feelings like emptiness, isolation, anxiety and low mood. Work often includes setting tiny goals, learning new ways to communicate, and building routines that feel manageable.

Yatong also offers integration support for people processing challenging experiences from non-ordinary states of consciousness. He frames this work as conversational, paced to the individual, and focused on meaning and adjustment.

If someone wants to start, they will be asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a suitable time. Sessions are conducted in English and Mandarin by a Melbourne-based practitioner working in Australia.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) supports people to notice unhelpful thoughts while choosing actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps identify thinking patterns and test them with real-life experiments, which can reduce worry and improve mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current bonds and feelings of loneliness, and can help rebuild trust in connections.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about their needs, goals and preferences, then suggest ways to try different methods. That decision is collaborative and may change as therapy progresses.

The original profile does not list specific online session formats, so confirm the available options before booking. Online work can make fitting therapy into a busy week easier and reduce travel time. It can also allow shorter check-ins or more flexible scheduling when a full in-person session is harder to arrange. Appropriately qualified therapists can adapt ACT, CBT and attachment-focused work to remote conversations, using practical exercises, values planning and homework to keep progress moving between sessions.