Wendy Holmes, BACP

Wendy Holmes is a BACP counsellor with four years' experience based in the United Kingdom. She works with adults on relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy concerns, parenting pressures and stress. Wendy also supports people facing anxiety, depression, career strain and issues linked to identity and sexuality.

Her approach is collaborative and person-centred. Sessions aim to be straightforward and pace is set by the client. She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy alongside attachment-based and mindfulness methods. Narrative ideas also appear in conversations when they help someone make sense of difficult events.

Wendy often helps people work through endings, life-stage changes and complicated grief. She has experience with trauma from emotional, physical or domestic abuse and with relationship-focused OCD. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, chronic health conditions and the strains of parenting.

Clients can expect direct conversations about patterns that cause pain and clear ways to practise different responses outside sessions. Work may include noticing thinking habits, developing day-to-day coping strategies, and exploring attachment experiences that shape relationships.

Her training includes a range of grief, trauma and sex-and-relationship certificates alongside an integrated psychotherapeutic counselling qualification. Wendy writes plainly, listens without judgement, and focuses on practical next steps a person can try between sessions.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions