About Yvonne
Yvonne Wood offers counselling for people facing relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, stress, anxiety and addictions. She also supports clients dealing with parenting strain, career worries, eating concerns, intimacy-related issues and compassion fatigue. Yvonne is a BACP counsellor with five years of practice and she works with adults from many backgrounds.
Yvonne uses a person-centred style at the heart of her work. Sessions are grounded in listening and empathy so people can feel heard and understood.
How Yvonne works
She helps clients name emotions, spot unhelpful patterns and make changes that feel manageable. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current ones. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used when practical steps and coping strategies are helpful.
Mindfulness and existential ideas are woven in to help people reflect on values and meaning. In a session Yvonne aims to create calm steadiness and practical focus. She offers a space to talk through difficult memories or current stresses and to practice new ways of responding.
Work may include short exercises, reflective conversation or learning small coping tools to use between sessions. Her additional interests cover issues such as abandonment, body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress. Yvonne has supported people affected by cancer and those living with long-term pain and disability.
She also works with concerns such as codependency, communication and control issues. People come to her for a mix of emotional support and practical steps. Yvonne aims to help clients build more resilience, clearer boundaries and a stronger sense of self.
She invites each person to move at their own pace while focusing on real changes they can use day to day.
Yvonne lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Yvonne works with
The areas below are the ones Yvonne 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
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Yvonne blends person-centred listening with attachment-based ideas to help people make sense of current relationship patterns. Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds affect how people connect today and can be useful for intimacy-related issues and communication problems.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying practical steps to change them. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, stress and building coping skills people can use between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to decide which ideas fit their needs, goals and preferences. Plans are reviewed together so work stays relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers a range of formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for fuller conversation and visual contact, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing reflection without needing to schedule a full call.
These options make therapy more flexible for people juggling work, care or health challenges. Registered or accredited professionals can tailor session length and format to fit a clients day-to-day life, making it easier to keep momentum between meetings.
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