- Warm and non-judgemental
- Practical coping skills
- Focus on relationships
About Wendy
Wendy Mayfield is a counsellor with twenty years' experience helping people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or drained by stress and relationship strain. She works with concerns such as anxiety, depression, codependency, parenting pressures and grief. Her aim is to help people find clearer self-understanding and more confidence in daily life.
Wendy brings a warm, non-judgemental presence to sessions. She listens first and then helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck. Conversations focus on practical steps you can try between meetings as well as understanding the emotions behind difficult choices.
Her background includes long clinical practice in the United Kingdom and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She uses a mix of well-known approaches to match each person’s needs rather than one fixed model.
During work together she draws on attachment ideas to look at how relationships form and affect current behaviour. Cognitive behavioural tools are used to break down unhelpful thinking and build coping skills. Narrative and client-centred ways of working help people tell their story and feel heard.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and collaborative. Wendy encourages small, realistic changes that add up over time. If you want a calm, practical space to think things through, she offers an empathetic, structured way forward.
How Wendy’s approaches translate to online work
Wendy commonly uses attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques in her work. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current ways of relating and helps people notice and change repeating cycles. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) breaks down stressful thoughts and behaviours into manageable steps and gives practical strategies to reduce anxiety and lift mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Wendy aims to collaborate with each person to decide what feels most useful, mixing ways of working as needs, goals and preferences become clearer. That decision is reviewed as therapy progresses rather than fixed at the start.
The biography lists online and face-to-face counselling but does not specify more detail about formats. Please confirm the exact session options before booking. Online sessions can help fit therapy around busy schedules, reduce travel time, and make it simpler to have a brief check-in during a lunch break or after work. They also allow continuity when life or location changes, while the collaborative approach means practical tasks and coping strategies are set up for use between sessions.
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Experience
20+ years
Credentials
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Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression and relationship issues, including family dynamics, attachment concerns, codependency and parenting pressures.
What is her style of therapy like?
Her style is warm and client-centred with practical focus. Conversations look at feelings and behaviours and include simple tasks to try between sessions.
How long has she been practising?
She has twenty years of experience working in the United Kingdom with a wide range of emotional and relational concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and is based in the United Kingdom.
Can people who live outside the UK work with her?
International clients are accepted and sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
The original biography mentions online and face-to-face counselling. Please confirm the current session options before booking.
How are sessions paid for and what does cost look like?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to see her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.