About Wendy
Wendy Alm is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Minnesota. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, depression, and life changes. Wendy uses plain, direct talk to help people feel understood and to make small, manageable changes.
She has worked in counseling for 11 years across clinics and community settings. That experience includes helping people with parenting concerns, divorce and separation, grief, addictions, and intimacy-related issues.
Background and approach
Wendy also supports people dealing with panic attacks, postpartum depression, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue. Her approach centers on the person in front of her. Wendy mixes client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to reduce distress and build skills.
She also draws on emotionally focused work and the Gottman Method when relationships and communication are the main concern. Sessions are aimed at clear goals and practical steps. Conversations tend to focus on what matters most now, skills to try between sessions, and ways to shift patterns that cause pain.
Wendy helps people identify strengths they can use right away. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session according to available times.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead, which fits well online because conversations can be paced to match what someone needs. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) uses practical exercises and simple tools to change thinking and behavior, and those worksheets and skills are easy to share over video or chat. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) adds skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance, which can be practiced in short exercises during phone or text check-ins.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That means sessions often combine listening, skill practice, and planning concrete steps between meetings.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for relationship work and skills teaching. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option and work well for check-ins. Live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins, homework questions, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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