Bernadette Wilkie
Practical, person-centred support for life's challenges
About Bernadette
Bernadette Wilkie helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addictions, grief and depression. She supports those facing life changes, relationship and family tensions, trauma and intimacy-related concerns. She also works with issues such as sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, career questions and compassion fatigue.
Bernadette uses a person-centred way of working that treats the client as the expert in their own life. She offers practical skills from dialectical behaviour therapy to help with emotional regulation and impulse control.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing is used to clarify goals and strengthen commitment to change. Sessions are conversational and focused on what the person wants to achieve. Bernadette listens for strengths and builds on small steps people can practise between meetings.
She explains tools in simple language and checks they work in real life. She has 10 years of professional experience and holds NCPS. Bernadette practises in the United Kingdom and carries experience helping people cope with addiction, trauma, ADHD and compulsive behaviours.
Her approach blends short-term skills training with longer work on patterns that keep problems repeating. People who contact her can expect straightforward goal-setting and a calm, steady presence. Bernadette aims to make therapy feel manageable and relevant to daily life.
She encourages gentle progress and realistic plans for change.
What Bernadette works with
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and building on their strengths. Online, this looks like open, empathetic conversation that helps clients feel heard and decide their own goals.Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, or DBT, teaches practical skills for managing emotions and reducing impulsive behaviour. In remote sessions Bernadette can guide skills practice, teach grounding and coping techniques, and set short exercises to try between meetings.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons for change and increase commitment to those goals. This approach is useful for addiction, ambivalence about life changes, and setting realistic next steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Bernadette will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals and preferences. She checks in about what is helping and adapts plans over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for richer conversation and teaching skills, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in and messaging supports short updates or reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and day-to-day life.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
