About Wendy
Wendy Brook uses attachment-based and emotionally-focused methods to help people untangle painful patterns. She combines these with client-centred listening and practical skills from dialectical behaviour therapy. Wendy is introduced here as a calm, empathic counsellor with 24 years of experience and a membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
She focuses on trauma and abuse as it shows up across life. That includes problems with relationships, addiction, anger, depression and anxiety.
How Wendy works
She also supports people struggling with grief, intimacy, sleep, eating difficulties and career or life transitions. Wendy prefers a straightforward, paced way of working. Sessions start by mapping what matters most and then look at the feelings and patterns that keep repeating.
She uses questions and reflective listening to help people notice choices they might have missed. Practical strategies are part of the work. That can mean learning emotional regulation skills, exploring attachment needs, or trying small behaviour changes between sessions.
The aim is clearer thinking and steadier reactions, not a rush to label or diagnose. Her BACP membership means she follows professional standards and ethical practice. Wendy blends experience with everyday language to make therapy feel accessible.
Outside the room she enjoys time with family, long walks with her Labrador and painting with watercolours.
Wendy lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
What Wendy works with
The areas below are the ones Wendy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approach-driven online therapy that focuses on attachment and emotion
Wendy commonly draws on attachment-based therapy to help people understand how early relationship patterns affect present feelings and behaviour. This approach looks at connection needs and helps identify ways to feel more supported in relationships and within oneself.She also uses emotionally-focused therapy which concentrates on identifying and naming feelings in the moment. EFT is useful for people who want clearer access to emotions that affect intimacy, grief, loss or conflict. Dialectical behaviour therapy skills are added when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are needed; these give practical steps for handling strong emotions day to day.
Finding the right mix is part of the work. Wendy will work collaboratively to decide which approaches match a person’s goals, preferences and current situation. That means reviewing what helps, trying things out, and adjusting the plan together as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual connection, phone suits shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily routines while keeping the focus on practical change and emotional understanding.
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