About Wendi
Wendi Cancilla is a licensed mental health counselor with 24 years of experience helping people cope with stress and anxiety. She works with adults facing trauma, grief, depression, and major life changes. Her practice also addresses parenting strain, sleep problems, anger, addictions, and self-esteem concerns.
She uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. Wendi draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new behaviors. She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to set short-term goals and Motivational Interviewing when people want help finding reasons to change.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on concrete steps clients can try between meetings. She listens for patterns that keep problems going and helps people replace them with small, manageable changes. That approach is often useful for workplace stress, compassion fatigue, or adjusting after loss.
Wendi has worked with people who have survived abuse, live with chronic illness or caregiving burdens, and those navigating adoption or foster-care questions. Her background includes long-term practice with trauma-related concerns and co-occurring issues such as dissociation and disruptive mood symptoms. She holds a Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential in Florida and Washington and practices from Washington state.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started is a simple selection and matching process followed by scheduling.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Wendi commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to guide online work. CBT helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and practice different behaviors that reduce anxiety and improve sleep. Motivational Interviewing focuses on exploring personal reasons for change and strengthening motivation when someone feels stuck or ambivalent.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked in the past. Together they adjust methods over time so sessions match the client's needs and pace.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, more frequent check-ins. These options make scheduling flexible and help connect therapy to everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Florida
- Languages
- English
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