Wendy Joseph , BACP

Wendy Joseph is a UK-based therapist and accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She brings 16 years of professional therapeutic experience and a background of 20 years as a registered mental health nurse in the UK, now retired from that role. Her academic training includes an MSc with distinction in Public Health, where her thesis explored the psychology of behaviour change, and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology with a thesis on workplace role identity, culture, and leadership. She has contributed to health research with published papers on autism, domestic violence, and dementia risk prediction, and she is awaiting PhD candidacy.

Wendy practices as an advanced integrated clinical supervisor and describes herself as trauma-informed and neurodivergence-informed. Her clinical training includes Gestalt therapy and she maintains a substantial continuing professional development schedule, typically around 200 hours each year. She offers structured programmes covering attachment styles, executive functioning, emotional regulation, addiction and ADHD coaching, self-compassion, anxiety management, positive psychology, emotional intelligence, relationship repair, and preparation for separation or divorce.

Her therapeutic skills draw on polyvagal theory, somatic experiencing, trauma and disorganised attachment body approaches, solution-focused brief therapy, and evidence-based positive psychology tools. She uses the FLASH technique to process traumatic memories while minimising distress and is in training with the Gottman Institute for couple work. Wendy holds autism and ADHD informed therapy accreditation and has experience working with carer wellbeing, severe and enduring mental health conditions, dementias, intimate partner violence, workplace bullying, and group therapy development for stress, sleep, voices, depression, and wellbeing. She is also accredited in Advanced Integrated Clinical Supervision and continues to update her practice through focused professional development in trauma, attachment, neurodiversity, grief, suicide prevention, and related areas.