Wendy Mayfield
BACP
United Kingdom
Warm counsellor helping people build resilience
Continue with WendyAt a glance
- Credentials
- BACP
- Registration
- BACP, United Kingdom / 381018
- Experience
- 20 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- United Kingdom
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp.
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- Motivational Interviewing
- Attachment focus
- Client-centred care
About Wendy
Wendy Mayfield is a counsellor with twenty years of experience who aims to help people feel steadier and more understood. She focuses on helping people who are anxious, low in confidence, grieving, dealing with relationship strain, or facing life transitions. Her style is warm and non-judgemental, and she works to help clients build resilience and clearer self‑understanding.
In sessions she listens closely and uses practical conversation to help people notice patterns that get in the way. She combines client-centred listening with approaches that look at thoughts, personal stories, and attachment. Motivational Interviewing is also part of her approach when people want to make changes but feel unsure how to begin.
Wendy aims to make therapy manageable and relevant. She tends to break bigger problems into smaller steps people can try between meetings. She also supports people working through trauma, parenting stress, eating concerns, anger and difficulties linked to attention differences.
Her work often focuses on how early relationships affect current feelings and behaviour, and on creating clearer ways to communicate with others. She uses short reflective exercises and conversational techniques to help people test new approaches in daily life.
Wendy is based in the United Kingdom and works with people who prefer a calm, thoughtful approach. She aims to treat everyone respectfully and ethically, helping them find practical ways forward that fit their lives.
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How different approaches work online
Wendy commonly uses Motivational Interviewing and Attachment-Based and Client-Centred approaches in her work. Motivational Interviewing focuses on helping people find their own reasons to change and reduce inner resistance, which can help with habits, motivation and readiness for change. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape feelings and patterns, useful for relationship strain and emotional regulation. Client-Centred Therapy puts the person’s experience at the heart of sessions, using empathic listening to build self-understanding and confidence.
Finding the best approach is part of the therapeutic process. Wendy works collaboratively to identify what feels most helpful based on a person's needs, goals and preferences. She will adjust the approach over time as practical tasks and conversations reveal what is working.
Please confirm current session options before booking so you know what formats are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter or more flexible check-ins when needed. It can also let people join from different locations and try conversational exercises or reflective tasks between sessions to reinforce progress. -
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Also works with
GriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersParenting issuesSelf esteemDepressionCoping with life changesADHDAdditional focus areas
AbandonmentAging and geriatric issuesAntisocial personalityAttachment issuesAvoidant personalityBlended family issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDissociationDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issuesGuilt and shameImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMoney and financial issuesNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthPrejudice and discriminationSelf-harmSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issuesTherapeutic approaches
Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Motivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family SystemsSystemic TherapyExperience
20+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
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Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does this counsellor address?
Wendy works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, intimacy issues, eating worries, parenting strain and ADHD related challenges.
How would you describe the therapeutic style?
Her style is warm, non-judgemental and client-centred. She listens closely, reflects what she hears and uses conversational techniques to help people explore change.
What is Wendy's professional background?
Wendy brings twenty years of experience working in counselling and therapeutic roles. She draws on multiple approaches to suit each person.
What credentials and location are listed?
Wendy holds BACP, which is noted as her supplied credential, and she is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international access are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are offered at the time.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with this counsellor?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.
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