Wendy Russell, BACP, NCPS

Wendy Russell offers a warm, down-to-earth counselling style that helps people talk through anxiety, stress and relationship worries. She is Wendy Russell and she draws on practical approaches so conversations stay focused and useful.

Wendy helps people who feel lost, overwhelmed or low. She listens without judgement and works collaboratively to find small steps that make a difference. Sessions often include simple exercises to try between meetings so progress keeps going outside the session.

Her work covers anxiety and depression, coping with life changes, grief, self-esteem and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people navigating career uncertainty, compassion fatigue and LGBT matters. Additional areas of focus include issues around kink and alternative sex culture, blended family challenges, caregiving stress, codependency and communication problems.

Wendy blends several well-known approaches to suit each person. She uses Client-Centred Therapy to keep the conversation grounded in the client's experience, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to spot and shift unhelpful thinking patterns, and solution-focused strategies to set clear, practical goals. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas and mindfulness methods when they fit the client’s needs.

Wendy has seven years of clinical experience and holds BACP and NCPS credentials, which are listed as supplied. She works from the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions that fit their needs.

Therapeutic approaches that work online

Client-Centred Therapy places the person's experience at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens carefully, reflects what she hears and helps people find their own answers, which is useful for issues like low self-esteem and feeling lost. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments to change behaviour and mood; it suits anxiety, stress and depression.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The counsellor works together with each person to pick or combine approaches that match their goals and preferences. That collaborative decision is reviewed over time so the approach can shift as progress happens.

Online therapy offers flexibility and a range of ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions can fit around work breaks or lower bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins and ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the methods described above to work on real concerns.