Yvonne Wood, BACP

Yvonne Wood offers counselling for people dealing with relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, stress, anxiety, and addictive behaviours. She also supports concerns around intimacy, eating, parenting pressures, career strain, depression, compassion fatigue and coping with life changes. Yvonne welcomes adults seeking a calm, respectful space to talk and to make sense of painful experiences.

Yvonne uses a person-centred way of working that puts the client’s perspective first. She listens without judgement and helps people notice patterns that get in the way of feeling better. Sessions are gentle and paced to suit the person sitting in the room or on the call.

She draws on methods from attachment-based work, cognitive behavioural ideas, existential thinking and mindfulness when these fit the client’s needs. Those approaches are blended into sessions in clear, practical ways so people can try things out between meetings.

Yvonne holds a BACP credential from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her background includes five years of practice and additional voluntary work supporting people who have experienced childhood sexual abuse and trauma. This combination brings both professional experience and lived-focus to her work.

In therapy with Yvonne, people can expect straightforward conversation, exploration of emotions, and help building coping steps that feel doable. Her aim is to help clients find clarity, strengthen self-trust, and move forward at a manageable pace.

Practical approaches for online counselling

Yvonne blends person-centred work with attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques. Person-centred work means the session is led by the client’s concerns and pace, with the counsellor offering open, non-judgemental listening and gentle reflection. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape how people relate now and can help with intimacy and trust issues. Cognitive behavioural techniques focus on noticing thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and trying small experiments to change them.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and together they will try methods that fit. This is collaborative and may change as progress develops.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls give face-to-face contact, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins during a busy day, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving or travel schedules and to keep sessions consistent over time.