About Wendy
Wendy Holmes is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy concerns, and life changes. She also helps with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, parenting and family worries, and challenges linked to work or career. Wendy works with people experiencing ADHD, compassion fatigue, and a range of other personal difficulties.
She communicates in English and offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text message.
How Wendy works
Wendy uses a gentle, collaborative approach in sessions. She listens first, then helps people clarify what matters to them. Conversations focus on practical steps that fit daily life, not abstract theory.
Sessions move at a pace the person chooses and aim to build clearer thinking and steadier coping. Her methods draw on acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, cognitive-behavioural techniques, mindfulness, and a client-centred way of relating. These approaches are used to help with unhelpful thinking, strong emotions, patterns that repeat in relationships, and ways to make small changes that last.
Wendy has four years of practice experience and holds BACP registration. She frames therapy as a joint process and aims to make each meeting useful and understandable. Cost is handled through a subscription model which can be cancelled at any time and varies with location and therapist availability.
To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules sessions according to the therapist's availability. Wendy does not take international clients and runs sessions in English only.
Wendy lists 10 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.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How these approaches work in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, life changes and feeling stuck. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how past relationship patterns affect current bonds and communication, helping people build more supported ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical strategies to shift unhelpful patterns and reduce distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Wendy will talk with the person about their needs, goals and preferences, and will suggest ways of working that fit. Together they decide what to try first and check progress as therapy continues, changing direction when needed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual connection helps the conversation. Phone sessions suit people with lower bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text can work for shorter check-ins or when written reflection feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around daily life and to continue support from different locations.
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