About Wendy
Wendy Leonard is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with 40 years of professional experience. She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and anxiety and to help people regain confidence and motivation. Wendy works with issues such as grief, career setbacks, and major life changes.
Her approach centers on Solution-Focused Therapy, which looks for strengths and small steps that lead to real change. Sessions are goal-oriented and practical, with an emphasis on what helps most right now.
Background and approach
Wendy encourages clients to identify what already works and to build from those successes. Clients can expect straightforward conversation and clear, doable strategies. Wendy helps people break down problems into manageable parts and tries to make progress feel achievable.
She emphasizes small, repeatable actions rather than long lists of tasks. Over her career she has supported people facing aging and geriatric issues, chronic illness and pain, cancer, intellectual disability, and traumatic brain injury. She also addresses workplace issues, isolation, life purpose, and concerns common to young adults and women.
Wendy sees international clients and conducts sessions in English. She describes the first step as an act of courage and offers steady support while clients try new approaches and adjust goals.
Solution-Focused care delivered online
Wendy primarily uses Solution-Focused Therapy, which focuses on identifying what already works in a person's life and building on those strengths. This approach is practical and fast-moving, often useful for anxiety, stress, and problems tied to life transitions. It centers on clear goals and small behavioral steps that can change day-to-day experience.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Wendy will ask about the goals, routines, and constraints that matter to each person and then recommend ways to test changes. That process is collaborative and adjusts as goals evolve so the plan stays relevant and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is helpful when visual cues matter and for deeper conversational work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins and ongoing support between longer meetings. These options help people balance therapy with busy schedules and different comfort levels.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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