About Wendy
Wendy Kesel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Recredentialed (LCSW-R) working in New York with 26 years of experience. She focuses on everyday problems like stress and anxiety, relationship strains, parenting challenges, and major life changes. Wendy aims to make starting therapy simple and respectful for people who are worried or unsure.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk about what matters most. Conversations focus on concrete steps and strategies that fit a person's life.
Background and approach
Sessions can cover coping skills, communication problems, and managing strong emotions. Wendy draws on well-known approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods to change unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, and attachment-informed work to improve close relationships. She also uses client-centered and dialectical behavior tools when a situation calls for them.
The goal is practical progress rather than jargon-heavy theory. Sessions often include checking current challenges, setting small goals, and practicing skills between meetings. Wendy also addresses related concerns like grief, trauma, self-esteem, ADHD, and career stress.
She is experienced supporting people through transitions and complicated family dynamics. Her style is collaborative and steady. Clients can expect direct feedback, space to reflect, and encouragement to try new ways of coping.
Wendy supports each person in finding methods that match their needs and pace.
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, life changes, and recovering motivation.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete ways to shift patterns that cause distress. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by building practical skills.
Attachment-Based ideas guide work on relationships and closeness by identifying how early patterns influence present interactions. This can help people improve communication and reduce repeated conflict.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to a person's goals, try methods that fit their situation, and adjust plans based on what helps. That collaborative process makes it easier to test new strategies and track progress.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use nonverbal cues and longer conversation. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a break during a busy day. Live chat and text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when writing out thoughts helps. These options make scheduling more flexible and allow therapy to fit into varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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