Yang Peng is a bilingual therapist who practices in English and Mandarin and is BACP accredited – accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She is currently working as a Psychological Therapist in the United Kingdom and holds a Master’s degree in Person-Centred Experiential Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice from the University of Nottingham. Her earlier training includes a background in Psychology from China.

Since 2015 she has worked across a range of mental health settings, including as a volunteer counsellor at the Human Flourishing Project and Nottinghamshire Hospice, a counsellor at Pro-counselling, a person-centred counsellor at Counselling Xtra, and a helpline counsellor at Vita Health Group. Those roles have provided experience with a wide variety of presenting issues, such as complex childhood abuse, depression, gambling addiction, anxiety and stress, bereavement, anger management, relationship difficulties, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), trauma and PTSD, chronic fatigue syndrome / ME, and personal development work.

Yang Peng offers therapeutic support for concerns including stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, self-esteem, depression, family and intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. She is a therapist of color and works as a female therapist with a non-religious and liberal perspective.

Her aim as a psychotherapist is to provide clients with an environment of compassion and empathy in which they feel understood, valued and accepted. She supports exploration of distressing feelings and emotions and helps clients make sense of past experiences or unwanted behaviour patterns.