Yvonne Wood
Person-centred counsellor for relational and life struggles
About Yvonne
Yvonne Wood offers counselling for a wide range of concerns including relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, anxiety, stress, addiction and life changes. She also helps with intimacy-related issues, eating and parenting strains, career worries and compassion fatigue. Yvonne is named up front so readers know who they would be working with.
Yvonne works in a warm, person-centred way that aims to make people feel heard. She listens without judgment and supports clients to notice their feelings and make sense of them.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to suit the individual so people can move forward at a rate that feels right. Her practice draws on a range of approaches. Attachment-based ideas help explore how early relationships shape current patterns.
Cognitive behavioural techniques can be used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try alternative responses. Mindfulness and existential perspectives also inform her work when they fit a client's needs. Yvonne holds a BACP credential from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and has five years of experience in counselling work.
She has worked in independent practice and in voluntary roles supporting people who have experienced childhood sexual abuse and trauma. In sessions she aims to create a calm space to notice difficult feelings and practise new ways of coping. People who meet with her typically talk through painful memories, test new behaviours and build practical steps for change.
Yvonne focuses on helping clients gain clarity, resilience and a stronger sense of self. To begin, she asks people to reflect on what they want from counselling and to take small steps forward. The first conversations focus on understanding the immediate concerns and agreeing how future sessions will help reach those goals.
What Yvonne works with
How Yvonne works
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Yvonne uses attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques in her online work. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships influence current patterns and helps people notice repeated reactions in relationships. Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different ways of responding to reduce distress.Finding the right approach is a shared process. She will talk with clients about their needs, goals and preferences and decide together which methods to try. The focus is on what helps someone make small, steady changes rather than on fitting a single model.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls can allow a fuller conversation that feels close to face-to-face work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat or messaging can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing to talking. This range of formats helps clients choose what fits their routine and comfort while working through relationship, anxiety, grief and other concerns.
| 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
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
