About Wendy
Wendy Stirling is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She writes simply and directly, offering a calm space to talk about worry, low mood, difficult changes and the impact of trauma. Wendy highlights respect, sensitivity and compassion as the starting point for her work.
She brings around ten years of professional experience to her practice and holds BACP accreditation. Wendy also draws on extensive personal experience, including many years of her own therapy, to shape how she supports people.
Background and approach
She sees each person as an individual and does not use a one-size-fits-all method. In sessions she tailors the conversation and practical steps to what feels most helpful. That might include noticing unhelpful thinking patterns, working on emotional connection, or clarifying values and goals.
The focus is on small changes that can make day-to-day life feel more manageable. Wendy uses a mix of approaches drawn from cognitive behavioural ideas, acceptance and commitment perspectives, attachment-focused work and emotionally-focused methods. She aims to help people build coping skills, strengthen relationships with themselves and others, and find more consistent ways to act in line with their values.
People can expect a steady, collaborative way of working where the next steps are agreed together. Wendy supports conversations about grief, relationships, addictions, parenting and identity concerns, and adapts the pace to each person’s needs.
How different approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small useful actions even when worry or difficult feelings are present. It can be helpful for ongoing anxiety, stress and life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going and teaches practical strategies to shift them, which many people find useful for anxiety and low mood.The right approach is usually found together. Wendy works collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s goals, comfort and pace. She adapts techniques from these approaches as needed and checks in often so the plan can change if something is not working.
Online sessions offer flexibility and accessibility. Video calls let people see facial expressions and share screen tools for worksheets. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, reflection between sessions or when typing feels easier than talking. These options can make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caring duties and other commitments.
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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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