About Wendy
Wendy Stirling helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or life changes. She works with concerns such as depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and self-esteem difficulties. Wendy presents as calm and direct, and aims to make first conversations straightforward and easy to follow.
Wendy uses a mix of approaches to suit each person. She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns.
How Wendy works
She also uses attachment-based and emotionally focused methods to look at how relationships affect feelings and behaviour. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, known as ACT, features in her work to help people clarify values and take small, meaningful steps. Wendy trained and holds BACP registration, and she has around ten years of professional experience.
Before qualifying she spent several years in personal therapy, which she says informs how she listens and responds. Her background gives her practical insight into issues such as adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, aging, neurodiversity and attachment concerns. Sessions are available in English and she accepts international clients.
She offers a variety of online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Costs vary by location and are delivered via a cancellable subscription model. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button and completes a short matching questionnaire.
The scheduling step follows, then sessions proceed according to the matched therapist's availability.
Wendy lists 9 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.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people identify what matters most to them and take small steps towards those values even when difficult thoughts and feelings appear. It can help with anxiety, low mood and life transitions by encouraging committed action and flexible thinking.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect. It uses practical strategies such as activity scheduling and thought records to reduce unhelpful patterns, which can be practised between sessions and discussed online.
Attachment-based work and emotionally focused ideas pay attention to how relationships shape emotional life and coping. These approaches help people understand attachment patterns and build more effective ways of relating to others and to themselves.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Wendy collaborates with each person to decide which methods suit their goals, concerns and day-to-day life. She adjusts techniques over time so sessions remain relevant and helpful.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distance. Phone sessions or live chat can be easier on days when a shorter check-in is needed or when bandwidth is limited. Text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection and quick exchanges between scheduled sessions. These options make it possible to fit therapy around work, caring commitments and travel while keeping the focus on progress and clear next steps.
Start online instead of waiting
Our partner service asks a few questions about what you are looking for and matches you with a therapist for sessions from home.
Book with WendyWe will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.
Common questions
What issues does Wendy commonly help with?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much experience does she have?
Where is she based and what credential does she hold?
Can I work with her if I live outside the UK?
Which session formats does she offer online?
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
How do I begin working with her?
A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. Entries are not assessed or endorsed by this directory.
Other entries for stress, anxiety
Supportive LCSW helping people build strength and clarity
Practical, trauma-aware therapy for everyday life
Practical, relational therapy for life transitions