About Wendy
Wendy Schultz is a licensed clinical social worker with eleven years of experience helping people navigate big life stressors. She sees therapy as one part of staying well and focuses on practical skills that fit into daily life. Clients often come in feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure what they want next.
Wendy works with each person to set clear, manageable steps toward change. Her approach emphasizes strengths and integration. She mixes skill building with reflective conversations so clients learn tools and understand how they use them.
Background and approach
That can mean practicing grounding techniques for anxiety, trying new ways to communicate, or using mindset shifts to handle career setbacks. Wendy uses attachment-informed ideas to look at how past relationships affect present patterns. She also draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on the person's goals and priorities.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers concrete ways to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors when anxiety or depression get in the way. Sessions are collaborative and down-to-earth. She may offer exercises between meetings and gentle challenges inside sessions to help people move forward.
The overall aim is steady, practical progress rather than quick fixes. Based in Illinois, Wendy counsels adults on a range of issues including stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship concerns, self-esteem, and life transitions. She provides options for video, phone, chat, or text-based work to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Wendy often combines attachment-informed work and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Attachment-based ideas help identify how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and closeness. That approach can be useful for people dealing with relationship concerns, abandonment issues, or patterns that repeat across partnerships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and mood problems. CBT provides clear exercises and practice tasks clients can do between sessions to see measurable change.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Wendy will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try. She adjusts the plan over time based on what helps most, so clients stay involved in deciding the direction of their work.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit shorter check-ins or low-bandwidth needs, chat can work for written back-and-forth during the day, and text messaging supports quick updates or brief exercises. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other commitments while still practicing tools for anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship problems.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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