About Wendy
Wendy Dunn is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, self-esteem struggles, and major life changes. Wendy takes a practical, down-to-earth approach so conversations stay focused and useful from the first session.
She builds sessions around each person’s story and current needs. Wendy listens first, then helps set small, manageable goals. She often uses straightforward tools clients can try between sessions to reduce worry and lift mood.
Background and approach
Her work draws on methods like cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma-focused techniques to address unhelpful thinking and past hurt. She also uses client-centered and solution-focused ideas to keep therapy grounded in the client’s priorities and strengths. Wendy has worked across many concerns over her career, including abandonment issues, attachment concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness, substance problems, relationship communication, and family-of-origin patterns.
She aims to meet people where they are and to tailor steps to fit real life demands. Sessions are offered in English and available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Wendy describes therapy as a collaborative process where practical coping skills and clearer perspectives grow over time.
How therapeutic approaches and online care fit together
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person’s experience. The therapist creates space for clients to speak without judgment and helps them identify what matters most in their life. This approach is useful when someone needs understanding and a steady guide to sort through feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical ways to spot unhelpful thoughts and replace them with clearer thinking. It often involves short exercises and homework to test new behaviors and reduce anxiety or low mood.
Trauma-Focused Therapy pays attention to how past hurts affect the present. It uses careful pacing and skills to manage strong emotions while slowly addressing painful memories. This approach can help people reclaim steady functioning after trauma.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Wendy will collaborate with clients to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She combines elements from different approaches to build a plan that feels practical and doable.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging lets clients send updates or questions between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while still getting consistent therapeutic support.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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