Wendy Joseph, BACP

Wendy Joseph is a BACP-registered counsellor with 16 years of practice experience. She brings a calm, flexible style and helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain and grief. She also works with addiction, ADHD-related challenges, trauma and sleep problems.

Wendy uses a mix of humanistic and relational approaches to support change. She often draws on attachment-based ideas and client-centred listening to help people understand how past relationships shape current feelings. Mindfulness and existential ideas also inform her work, helping people explore meaning and everyday choices.

Her background includes a long clinical career in mental health nursing and published research on autism, domestic violence and dementia risk. She holds a Master of Science with distinction in Public Health and a Bachelor of Science with honours in Psychology. She also undertakes substantial continuing professional development each year.

In practical terms she offers structured programmes when helpful, including emotional regulation, ADHD coaching, addiction work and relationship repair. She can suggest validated self-report measures and trustworthy resources to track progress and support personal growth.

Wendy aims for sessions that feel collaborative and paced to the person in front of her. She takes a trauma-informed and neurodivergence-informed stance, and she can adapt tools and exercises to suit different learning styles and needs.

How Wendy's approaches translate to online support

Wendy combines attachment-based and client-centred ideas with mindfulness practice to guide online work. Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationship patterns influence current feelings and behaviours, helping people who feel stuck in repeating relationship cycles. Client-centred therapy emphasises empathic listening and collaborative pacing so the person leads the conversation and choices. Mindfulness Therapy brings simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and build awareness of thought and emotion.

Deciding which approach to use is part of the therapy itself. Wendy will discuss your goals and preferences in early sessions and together you will choose methods that fit your needs. She adapts exercises and homework to each person, checking in regularly about what helps and what doesn’t.

The practical advantages of online work depend on the session options offered, so please confirm current formats before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. They also let people use grounding or mindfulness tools in their own routines and for some clients make it simpler to include practical coaching elements between meetings.