About Wendy
Wendy Goffena is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with nine years as an LCSW and extensive experience across mental health settings. She practices from Montana and draws on a long history working in community and clinical programs. Wendy focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and related concerns.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She treats each person as the expert on their life and works together with them to set goals.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize identifying strengths, building coping skills, and finding practical steps that fit day-to-day life. Wendy uses a mix of approaches based on what a person needs. She brings Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice links among thoughts, feelings, and actions.
She uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. She also offers Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to boost flexibility through acceptance, values, and committed action, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for processing past traumatic experiences when appropriate. Wendy adapts techniques to each person rather than following a single script.
Her background includes work in rural community mental health, medical social work, inpatient residential treatment, correctional settings, child protective services, and outpatient programs. Outside of clinical work she spends time outdoors in Montana hiking, fishing, gardening, and doing art. She aims to help people find more ease, clearer direction, and better ways to cope with life’s challenges.
How evidence-based approaches fit into online therapy
Wendy frequently uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and then try new, healthier options. CBT works well for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress by focusing on concrete changes and skills.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT tools are useful when strong emotions or relationship patterns interfere with daily life. When trauma is central, she may include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to address painful memories and their effects on relationships and functioning.
Choosing a therapeutic approach is part of the work and will be decided together. The therapist will review goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past, then try methods that fit the person's needs. This is a collaborative process and can evolve as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, chat or text help with brief check-ins or when written reflection feels helpful. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Montana, Wyoming
- Languages
- English
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