Wendy Brook, BACP

Wendy Brook is an experienced, empathic therapist with 24 years of practice supporting people through difficult transitions and long-standing challenges. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence and works to help clients make sense of where they are, how they arrived there, and where they want to go. Wendy believes that many people already carry important answers within themselves and that sensitive support can help those insights emerge.

Her clinical work places particular emphasis on trauma and abuse, understood broadly as experiences that felt overwhelming at the time. She has helped people address the emotional and relational consequences of trauma, including struggles with anxiety, depression, addiction, anger, and difficulties in close relationships. Wendy also supports clients with a wide range of other concerns such as grief, parenting, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping difficulties, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and career or self-esteem challenges.

Wendy takes a preventative, integrative approach and does not assume that a formal diagnosis is always necessary. Instead she focuses on helping people understand emotions and patterns so they can move forward in more fulfilling ways, always working at a pace suited to each individual. She is a registered member of the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and brings both professional experience and genuine compassion to her work. Outside of practice, Wendy enjoys spending time with family and friends, walking with her Labrador, watching horse events, and painting with watercolours.