About Wendy
Wendy Foote is an Illinois licensed clinical professional counselor with 18 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are ready to make meaningful changes, especially around anxiety, trauma, relationship and eating concerns. She invites clients who are committed to doing the hard work of therapy and wants to help them find more emotional stability and peace.
Wendy creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize practical steps and honest conversation. She balances straightforward support with tools that help people manage stress and intense emotions day to day. Her work draws on cognitive behavioral approaches to identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills.
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients clarify values and take action toward a more meaningful life. Emotion-focused techniques are used when attachment and intimacy issues are central to a person's concerns. Wendy has long experience supporting people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, depression, bipolar symptoms, and addiction-related struggles.
She also helps with body image, codependency, communication problems, parenting strain, and struggles with impulsivity or isolation. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Therapy with her typically includes skill-building, regular check-ins on progress, and clear goals set together.
She asks for commitment from clients who want to see lasting change and offers straightforward feedback along the way. If a person wants to engage in deeper work, she will partner with them to map a plan and move forward.
How her approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice anxious or painful thoughts and take action that matches their values. Online sessions can use ACT to set clear values-based goals and practice small experiments between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors. In remote sessions CBT work often includes real-time thought monitoring, behavior experiments, and practical homework that a person can do between video or phone meetings. Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and emotional responses to improve connection and self-understanding; this can be adapted to single-person work to address intimacy and attachment wounds.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist discusses goals and preferences at the start and adjusts methods as needed. Clients and the therapist work together to pick techniques that fit the person's situation and pace, with regular check-ins to see what's helping.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and seeing nonverbal cues, while phone calls are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging can be used for brief updates, skills practice, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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