Wendy Stratford
Compassionate support for trauma, anxiety and life change
About Wendy
Wendy Stratford helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and low mood. She also supports those facing relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career pressures, sleep problems, and compassion fatigue. Wendy works with issues related to sexual assault, domestic violence, abandonment, dissociation, and post-traumatic stress.
She is named in the first paragraph to make it clear who the profile describes. Wendy uses a straightforward, respectful style in sessions.
Background and approach
Conversations are shaped around the person who turns up each week. She listens, asks questions to clarify what matters most, and then agrees short-term goals to work towards. Over 14 years of professional practice in the United Kingdom, Wendy has worked with people from different backgrounds and life stages.
She holds BACP, which indicates registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. That credential is noted here exactly as supplied. Therapy with Wendy is tailored rather than one-size-fits-all.
She adapts the pace and focus to the issue being addressed, whether that is processing past harm, improving day-to-day coping, or rebuilding self-worth. Practical steps and gentle reflection are balanced in session. Wendy aims to create a space where people feel treated with sensitivity and compassion.
She recognises taking the first step takes courage and offers steady, respectful support as people work towards clearer thinking and better routines. To begin, she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedules sessions based on availability. This gives a quick way to connect and plan the next steps.
What Wendy works with
Sessions & fees
Evidence-based approaches and online support
Wendy draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people process trauma and manage distress. For trauma-related work she offers approaches that focus on helping a person make sense of what happened, reduce overwhelming symptoms and rebuild a sense of safety in everyday life. These methods aim to reduce retraumatisation and help with symptoms such as flashbacks, dissociation and sleep disruption.She also uses approaches aimed at anxiety and mood that combine practical coping skills with reflective conversation. These techniques teach breathing and grounding strategies, help reshape unhelpful thinking patterns and build routines that improve sleep and daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Wendy works collaboratively with each person to identify what feels most useful. She will discuss options, try different techniques as needed and check in regularly to adjust the plan based on the person's goals and preferences.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a simpler check-in that uses less bandwidth, live chat supports quicker back-and-forth work and messaging lets people write through thoughts between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare or other commitments and to continue work when travel is difficult.
| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 14 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
