About Wendy
Wendy Galyen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of experience in social work and counseling. She trained in psychology and social work at the University of Indianapolis and completed a master's degree in social work at Indiana University. Wendy has worked in independent practice and higher education roles, supervising interns and teaching social work and counseling students.
Her style is warm, conversational, and nonjudgmental. She aims to build rapport quickly so people feel heard and can begin making changes.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to each person's situation rather than following a single script. Wendy commonly helps people dealing with stress and anxiety. She also supports those facing depression, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, caregiver strain, grief, and life transitions.
Additional areas of focus include body image, self-esteem, work issues, money concerns, and questions about life purpose. Wendy draws from several practical approaches, including cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, narrative methods, and acceptance and commitment ideas. She uses these tools to help people try new behaviors, reframe difficult thoughts, and strengthen values-based decision making.
Her background in research and teaching keeps her connected to current counseling theory. That experience informs how she organizes sessions, tracks progress, and tailors strategies so they fit each person’s goals and daily life.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people connect with what matters most and take small steps toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve functioning. It works well for anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Mindfulness-based methods teach simple attention and breathing practices to steady emotion and reduce reactivity, which can help with stress and overwhelm.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Wendy works with each person to discuss goals, try methods in session, and adjust techniques over time. Together they decide what fits the client’s needs, preferences, and daily routine rather than using one fixed method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can fit a break at work or reduce bandwidth needs, and live chat or text-based messaging lets people check in between sessions or use shorter exchanges when that suits their schedule. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while adapting to changing days and responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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