Wendy Mayfield
Compassionate practical support for emotional change
About Wendy
Wendy Mayfield helps people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to turn. She works with common problems such as anxiety, depression, stress and relationship troubles. Wendy uses straightforward language and a calm, respectful manner to make it easier to talk about difficult feelings.
Wendy draws on two decades of experience to support clearer thinking and stronger coping skills. She combines attachment-based ideas that look at relationship patterns with client-centred listening so people feel heard.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help change unhelpful thoughts and actions. Sessions focus on practical steps as well as understanding how the past affects the present. People can expect conversations that look at patterns, identify small changes, and build confidence to try new ways of coping.
The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Wendy offers a calm online and face-to-face space where honesty is encouraged and judgement is avoided. She emphasises respect and ethical practice while helping people make choices that suit their lives.
Her style is warm and direct, with attention to emotional awareness and mindfulness when helpful. Over the long term she supports people through grief, trauma and major life changes. Wendy also helps with parenting strain, body image and issues linked to attachment and intimacy.
Her approach adapts to each person’s needs while keeping practical outcomes in view.
What Wendy works with
How Wendy works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Wendy commonly draws on attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioural therapy to help people understand and change patterns that cause distress. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people notice and shift repeating dynamics. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioural changes to reduce anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs and preferences. That choice can change over time as progress is made or new issues arise, and the plan is adjusted together.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection helps, phone sessions can suit those who prefer not to be on camera or need less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make regular contact more feasible and help therapy fit around work, family or travel commitments.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
