About Wendi
Wendi Makus is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who centers her work on the whole person rather than just symptoms. She uses practical, real-world methods to help people reduce stress and anxiety and improve daily functioning. Her style is straightforward and supportive for those facing relationship strain, trauma, depression, grief, or work and parenting pressures.
Wendi draws on several evidence-informed approaches to tailor sessions to each person. She blends acceptance-based skills with cognitive and behavioral tools to address unhelpful thinking and build coping skills.
Background and approach
Attachment-focused ideas guide work on relationship patterns and how early bonds shape current reactions. In sessions she focuses on small, actionable steps people can try between meetings. That can mean learning ways to manage overwhelming feelings, practicing communication skills, or setting limits to reduce burnout.
She also pays attention to how identity, life changes, and losses affect mood and functioning. Wendi has 13 years of clinical experience in a variety of settings. She supports people dealing with addictions, bipolar challenges, ADHD-related struggles, compassion fatigue, and the ripple effects of trauma and abuse.
Her background includes helping clients with parenting strains, blended family concerns, and career transitions. She practices in Arkansas and offers therapy in English. Sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their schedule and needs.
How her approach translates to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and navigating life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people change how they relate to others and manage emotional triggers.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, then recommend and try strategies that seem most useful. Decisions are collaborative and can shift as needs change during therapy.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video is good for in-depth work and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text can be helpful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy going around work, school, or family commitments, and to try different formats to see what works best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas, Oregon, Maine, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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