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Online Counselling & Breathwork Therapy for Anxiety, Trauma & Emotional Healing
You’re Not Alone, Real Support for What You’re Facing
Most of us arrive here after feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or stuck — trying to manage stress, anxiety, burnout, or past trauma on our own. You might feel:
Constant worry, panic, or nervous tension
Emotional overwhelm, sadness, or numbness
Relationship conflict or disconnection
Life transitions that feel confusing or heavy
This isn’t a weakness, it’s a signal that support could help you live with more calm, clarity, and resilience
About Wendy Matthews
I didn’t come to counselling and breathwork from a textbook or a neatly packaged life — I came through real life, the kind that cracks you open and teaches you how to breathe again.
I ran away from home as a teenager, shouldered adult challenges far too soon, and became a young mother raising three children while putting myself through law school. At 27, exhausted but determined, I carved out a career as a criminal barrister — sharp, capable, and highly competent — yet always braced, always on alert underneath it all.
For fifteen years I carried other people’s trauma in the courtroom. That sharpened my mind but never healed my nervous system. In my early forties, everything finally caught up with me — and the structures I had relied on began to break. I was overwhelmed, anxious, and profoundly disconnected from my own body.
Everything shifted when I stopped pushing and started turning inward.
Breathwork taught me how to feel without numbing. Therapy helped me see the survival patterns my nervous system had learned early in life. And through both I began to live with more presence, clarity, and compassion — first for myself, and now for the people I walk with in therapy.
Today I’m a trauma‑informed counsellor and breathwork practitioner, blending talk therapy, somatic practices, and breath‑based work to support deep, embodied healing. If you’re tired of coping and ready to feel, breathe, and integrate your experience — you’re in the right place.
An Integrative Approach That Works with Mind + Body
I’m Wendy Matthews, counsellor, therapist, and breathwork facilitator with over 15 years’ experience helping people move through anxiety, trauma, emotional overwhelm, and life transitions. My work blends:
Evidence-based counselling — to explore patterns, beliefs, and emotional blocks
Conscious breathwork — to calm the nervous system and release tension stored in the body
Somatic awareness & mindfulness — for deeper regulation and insight
Together, these tools help you feel grounded inside your body, more resilient in your relationships, and clearer in your sense of self.
Who This Work Is For
You Might Reach Out If You’re Experiencing:
✔ Persistent anxiety, overwhelm or stress
✔ Difficulty managing emotions or life transitions
✔ Relationship tension or recurring patterns
✔ Burnout or low energy
✔ Trauma histories that keep repeating internally
✔ A longing for deeper self-understanding and presence
How This Practice Helps
How Working Together Can Support You:
✔ Regulate anxiety and nervous system responses
✔ Build emotional resilience and clarity
✔ Move through old patterns that keep showing up
✔ Improve relationships with more conscious communication
✔ Feel more embodied, calm, and present in daily life
You’re Not Too Much. You’re Not Broken. You’re Just Ready
If you’re feeling the pull to slow down, feel supported, and finally tend to your inner world, I’m here.
Let’s gently explore what support might look like for you.
Client Testimonials and Feedback
“I highly recommend Wendy’s BreathWork, Counselling and Meditation services for enhancing your life beyond belief. I have been seeing Wendy for some time now, and with hand on heart, I can honestly say, that my journey through life has never been more beautiful and with such serenity.
If you would like to try Breathwork, Counselling and Meditation, contact Wendy and take advantage of the free 10-minute phone call session.
You will feel the release of long held negative beliefs and experiences, and you will end the session with calmness, joy and a gentle confidence and self-belief!”
“Daily I am reminded of how grateful I am for finding Wendy’s website and choosing her above all the other people I was looking at, to try and help me.
To know me you would have no hint of my internal struggles. I appear confident, capable and composed. But somehow, I got to a point where I had a daily feeling of dread. Typical things were terrifying me; I didn’t want to be alone, I didn’t want to travel too far from anywhere, the onset of night-time, I was petrified of hopping on a plane and going on an upcoming holiday … I was at a point where I absolutely needed to do something as things were becoming unbearable.
I searched the internet for professionals who could help me. I investigated many but there was something about Wendy that kept drawing me back to her above all others. Despite my lack of knowledge and apprehension around what “breathwork” meant and involved, I made the leap (not such a leap) and I booked an appointment. And I’m SO glad I did. Wendy has brightened and settled my days. She has given me tools and perspective that have transformed me and my ability to manage and experience things.
Working with Wendy enabled me to go on my overseas holiday, have good times, and give me the excitement of looking forward to more. She is very professional (and extraordinarily interesting). I miss my appointments with Wendy. It’s ironic to think that her business is to successfully do herself out of business – her service assisted me, to not require her service.
I think about what she gave to me often. I appreciate the tools and my new insights she opened to me. It’s funny, I HATED what I was going through, but I’m thankful for it too, because if I hadn’t, then I wouldn’t have had the fortune to work with Wendy and gain what I got from her.”
“My experience with Wendy has been life changing. As an upbeat person, I always thought I could do it all myself. After a tough year and noticing a pattern of overwhelm, I recognised that this wasn’t the way I wanted to be anymore.
From my first engagement with Wendy over email and then in person, I felt safe, supported and empowered. It was my first experience with a counsellor where I was excited to practice what we had discussed and completely opened my eyes to a new way of thinking and living my life, for myself.
I continue to learn from Wendy every time we meet. No matter why you are seeking guidance, I believe Wendy will help support you on your journey.
Thanks for all you do ”