Wendy Brook, BACP

Wendy Brook uses a person-centred, attachment-aware approach to help people find steadier ground. She blends client-centred care with emotion-focused and skills-based techniques to address the issues that bring someone into therapy. Wendy presents a calm, straightforward presence and encourages people to move at their own pace.

She has 24 years of experience working with trauma and abuse, including harms that happened in childhood or later in life. She also supports people facing depression, anxiety, addiction, bipolar difficulties, grief and major life changes. Practical problems such as sleep, eating, anger and career strain are part of her everyday work.

Wendy pays close attention to relationship patterns and attachment issues. That includes intimacy concerns, communication problems, commitment worries and struggles that follow adoption, abandonment or blended-family dynamics. She also addresses stress around caregiving, chronic illness and cancer.

Her practice uses elements of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to build coping skills alongside Emotionally-Focused Therapy and attachment ideas to repair how people relate. Existential themes are used when people want to clarify values and life direction. The aim is always to help someone recognise patterns and try different ways of responding.

Wendy is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She works in the United Kingdom and provides sessions in English. Outside work she enjoys days with family, walking her Labrador and painting with watercolours.

How attachment, emotion work and DBT translate online

Wendy draws on attachment ideas to look at how past bonds affect present relationships and emotional responses; this helps when intimacy or trust feels difficult. She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people name and process strong feelings and to shift unhelpful interaction patterns. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy offers practical coping skills for managing intense emotion, improving distress tolerance and handling conflict.

Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Wendy will work with each person to agree which methods suit their needs and goals, and she adapts the work as things change. Together they decide whether to focus more on skills practice, on processing feelings, or on exploring life meaning and values.

Online sessions can be held as video calls, phone conversations, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes therapy more flexible. Video is useful for a near face-to-face feel, phone calls can fit into a short break, and text or chat work well for between-session check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options help people keep therapy going around work, family and mobility constraints, while still using the same therapeutic approaches that would be used in person.