About
As a creative arts therapist, Wendy offers a compassionate, creative, and down-to-earth approach tailored to each individual's unique needs. Her style is collaborative, respectful, and non-pathologising, enabling clients to safely explore their experiences at their own pace.
Wendy integrates storytelling, art, music, movement, imaginative play, improvisation and traditional talk therapies to create a therapeutic experience that supports emotional expression, insight and meaningful personal growth. Creative exploration often brings to light emotions and experiences that are difficult to express verbally, opening up new pathways to understanding and enriching how clients relate to themselves and others.
Grounded in trauma-informed practice, Wendy prioritises emotional safety, stability and trust. Her approach is particularly supportive for clients who have experienced trauma or complex emotional challenges, as she focuses on building strong, secure therapeutic relationships that foster genuine healing.
Wendy draws on an integrative therapeutic model that includes transactional analysis (TA), compassion-focused therapy (CFT), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT). This flexible framework supports clients in developing emotional resilience, improving self-awareness and building effective coping strategies.
Before training as a therapist, Wendy spent many years working as a developmental consultant, delivering professional training across a wide range of topics, including communication, leadership and emotional intelligence. She also brings a rich background in the performing arts, having worked as both an actress and a stand-up comedienne - experiences that enhanced her ability to connect with others, work creatively, and use humour and authenticity as part of the healing process.
Wendy supports clients in rediscovering their innate strengths and harnessing creative resources to enhance wellbeing, build confidence, and move toward lasting, meaningful change.
Position at Priory
Wendy is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), is a full member of the British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth), and holds a Master’s degree in Psychotherapy, awarded with a Distinction.
Wendy has extensive therapeutic experience in the NHS and educational settings across both primary and secondary care, which includes work in a psychiatric and adolescent hospital. She delivers individual and group therapy, adapting her methods to meet the specific needs of each client and therapeutic context. Alongside her clinical practice, Wendy is qualified in coaching and mentoring, bringing valuable skills from her work as a professional and personal development coach. She has also actively contributed to mental health and wellbeing programmes within public and private sector organisations.
Wendy’s past experience as an actress and stand-up comedy significantly enhanced her skills in quick thinking, interpersonal connection, and the meaningful use of humour and storytelling within therapeutic relationships.
At Priory, Wendy provides compassionate therapeutic support to children and young people. She uses creative and expressive methods to facilitate emotional expression and processing, working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure holistic care planning. Wendy is deeply committed to fostering a safe, responsive and child-centred therapeutic environment.
Training
Wendy holds a Master’s degree in Dramatherapy from Roehampton University, awarded with Distinction. Her therapeutic training includes qualifications in TA, certificates in CBT, and extensive continuing professional development (CPD) in creative and integrative approaches. She also holds a Level 5 qualification in Coaching, Management and Leadership, further enhancing her ability to support clients through both therapeutic and developmental lenses.
Wendy is committed to ongoing professional development and is always seeking opportunities to train and learn new approaches that deepen and enrich her therapeutic practice.
Research interests
As part of her clinical training, Wendy obtained a Distinction for her thesis entitled 'A Heuristic Study of Dramatherapy’s Role in Fostering Self-Compassion and Healing Shame'. This research was based on her work with clients experiencing psychosis, and continues to inform her therapeutic practice - particularly in supporting those struggling with inner criticism, low self-worth and complex relational wounds.