About Wendy
Wendy Stirling is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and depression. She works with individuals facing trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain and a wide range of life adjustments. Wendy brings ten years of professional experience and speaks English for all sessions.
Wendy trained and holds BACP registration, and she draws on her own long personal therapy journey to shape how she listens.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped to the person in front of her rather than a fixed template. She takes a respectful, sensitive approach and aims to help people feel heard and understood. Her way of working combines practical tools and reflective conversation.
She uses techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy to notice unhelpful thinking. She also offers approaches that look at values, emotions and relationships to help people reconnect with what matters to them. Wendy works with a broad range of concerns including addiction, eating and body image issues, caregiver stress, attachment difficulties and aspects of identity such as LGBT matters.
She also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and blended family challenges, and career or motivation problems. Sessions can be delivered online in several formats to fit different needs. Cost varies by location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
To start, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
Approach and online therapy that work together
Wendy uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviours. This approach can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with stressful situations. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is another strand she uses; ACT focuses on values and helps people act in ways that matter to them even when feelings are difficult. Attachment-Based Therapy is also part of her practice and looks at how early relationships shape present-day responses and connections.Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. Wendy will discuss options with each person and agree a plan based on their goals, history and what feels most helpful. The process is collaborative, so techniques and focus can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls need less bandwidth and can be simpler on the move, and messaging formats support brief check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These choices aim to make therapy more flexible and accessible for different routines and needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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