Wendy Stirling
Calm, practical counselling for everyday struggles
About Wendy
Wendy Stirling specialises in helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression and big life changes. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about trauma, low self-esteem, addictions and relationship concerns. Wendy works in English and supports international clients as well as people across the United Kingdom.
Wendy has worked in counselling for ten years and holds BACP registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Background and approach
Her own extended personal therapy informs how she listens and the care she offers. She believes each person brings their own history and needs, and she adapts conversations and plans to fit each individual. In sessions Wendy uses a mix of straightforward approaches.
She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and uses attachment-focused ideas to help with relationship and intimacy issues. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take workable steps forward.
Her practice covers a wide range of concerns, including grief, parenting stresses, body image, eating issues, compassion fatigue and problems linked to adoption or caring roles. She is experienced in supporting people who identify as LGBT and those coping with commitment, control and communication issues. Wendy aims for practical, short-term changes alongside deeper personal work when needed.
Conversations are shaped by what each person wants to achieve. She encourages small, manageable goals and checks progress regularly. To begin, clients use an online matching tool and then schedule sessions that suit them.
Sessions can be held by video, phone, live chat or text messaging, depending on what feels most useful.
What Wendy works with
How Wendy works
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Sessions & fees
How Wendy blends therapeutic approaches for online work
Wendy uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters to them and take small, value-led steps forward. ACT often helps when worry, low mood or avoidance get in the way of living the life someone wants.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships affect current patterns in intimacy, trust and communication. This approach can help people understand recurring relationship tensions and develop different ways of relating.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Wendy discusses goals and preferences with each person and adapts methods as the work develops. She aims to match tools and pace to what feels most useful for the individual.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling easier to fit into everyday life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility so people can find a format that suits their routine and energy levels.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
