About Wendy
Wendy Stratford helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and issues with relationships and intimacy. She also supports people facing sleeping problems, parenting strain, career worries, self-esteem difficulties, and compassion fatigue. Wendy uses straightforward, respectful language and aims to make starting therapy as simple as possible.
Wendy has worked in the UK for 14 years and holds BACP accreditation, which means she meets national professional standards.
How Wendy works
She explains things plainly and builds a plan that fits each person’s situation rather than using one fixed method. Sessions are shaped around what feels useful for the individual. In practice Wendy listens for the practical changes that will help day to day.
She talks through coping skills for anxiety and stress, ways to process traumatic experiences, and steps to manage grief and loss. She also helps people work through feelings of guilt, shame, abandonment and low self-worth. Conversations with Wendy are collaborative and paced to suit the person.
She will discuss options and try different ways of working until something fits. The aim is to leave people with clearer thinking and tools they can use between sessions. Wendy works in English and provides sessions online by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
She asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire to begin and then schedule sessions according to availability.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Wendy draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people cope and recover. One common approach she uses focuses on practical coping skills for anxiety and stress - this involves learning breathing and grounding techniques, planning small steps and changing unhelpful thinking patterns to reduce immediate distress. Another key focus is trauma-informed work that helps people process painful events at a pace that feels manageable; this includes talking through memories, noticing how the body reacts, and building safety and stabilisation skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Wendy invites people to discuss their goals and preferences and she adapts methods collaboratively. If something does not feel helpful she will try different options until a better fit is found.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from wherever you are, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help people fit therapy around work, family commitments and daily life.
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