About Wendy
Wendy Gatewood is a licensed clinical social worker with 22 years of experience. She practices from Indiana and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, and life changes. Wendy listens first and works with each person to build practical steps forward.
Her work often begins with simple goals. She helps people spot unhelpful thinking, try new ways of coping, and practice skills that reduce overwhelm. Sessions are collaborative and paced to what each person can handle.
Background and approach
Wendy uses approaches such as client-centered care, cognitive behavioral techniques, and dialectical behavior strategies. She leans on tools that teach concrete skills for mood regulation, communication, and problem solving. Those tools are mixed and matched to fit a person’s needs.
People bring many concerns to her practice, including anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, anger, relationship and family problems, eating concerns, and parenting stress. She also supports work on attachment, adoption and foster care issues, body image, and forgiveness. The focus is on what matters most to the person in front of her.
Her sessions aim to be straightforward and goal oriented. Wendy helps people recognize patterns, practice new responses, and track progress over time. She guides each person toward clearer choices and more manageable days.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Wendy commonly combines cognitive behavioral ideas and client-centered methods to help people who feel overwhelmed or stuck. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and validating a person’s experience while building a treatment plan that feels right for them.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are central concerns. DBT skills teach specific techniques for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and coping without harmful actions. Together these approaches give both short-term tools and a longer-term framework for change.
Choosing the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. Wendy works with clients to clarify goals, try different strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps. She invites feedback and makes changes so the approach fits the client’s needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat work well for brief check-ins or coaching between meetings. These options can help people fit therapy into work, school, or busy family routines while keeping progress consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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