About Wendy
Wendy Gilchrist is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience. She brings a mix of past nonprofit leadership and long clinical practice to her work. Wendy communicates simply and directly so busy parents can quickly understand how therapy could help.
Wendy started her professional path after earning an MBA and launching nonprofit programs for people in need. She later trained as an LCPC. That path led to work in psychiatric hospital units and in trauma-informed programs where she supported people through loss and difficult life transitions.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses straightforward, practical conversations. She draws on somatic ideas to help people notice how emotions show up in the body. She also uses client-centered listening and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people shift unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Wendy helps with everyday pressures such as stress and anxiety, parenting concerns, career strain, and coping with life changes. She also works with people facing depression, bipolar challenges, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and ADHD-related struggles. Additional focus areas include chronic illness, chronic pain, body image, and family of origin issues.
Wendy offers therapy in English and Spanish and has experience across many clinical settings. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. She aims to help people build clearer coping tools and to feel steadier day to day.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Somatic-informed work helps people notice sensations in the body and how they connect to feelings and stress. It can be useful for anxiety, chronic pain, and learning new regulation habits. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following what matters most to the person. This approach supports people who need space to talk through relationships, parenting stress, or grief. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions and introduces practical steps to shift unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Wendy will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. She will recommend strategies from these approaches and adjust them as the relationship and goals evolve so care fits the individual.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it possible to fit sessions around school, work, and caregiving. They also allow people to continue therapy while managing treatment for chronic illness, busy schedules, or distance from a clinic.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish