Wendy Gray, LMHC
Compassionate, practical support for life transitions
About Wendy
Wendy Gray is a licensed mental health counselor in North Carolina. She brings 25 years of experience supporting people facing family stress, trauma and abuse, grief, and low self-esteem. She also works with compassion fatigue and ADHD-related struggles.
Wendy focuses on listening first. She creates a calm space where people can tell their story and name what feels hard. Then she helps set simple, realistic goals and tries different ways to reach them.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and paced to match each person’s needs. Her work draws on body-centered somatic methods to help people notice how stress shows up in the body. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors when that fits. Wendy adapts the approach to each situation. For example, someone coping with grief might begin with grounding and somatic exercises.
Another person dealing with communication problems may focus on skill practice and small behavior changes. She helps people try different steps and track what helps. Conversations are respectful and direct.
Wendy aims to support people who want clearer boundaries, less overwhelm, or better coping after loss or trauma. Her approach is collaborative - she works with each person to find what moves them toward greater steadiness and hope.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Wendy uses somatic work to help people notice and work with physical sensations tied to stress and trauma. These gentle body-focused practices can help when feelings feel stuck, and they pair well with talking about difficult experiences. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how relationships shape emotional patterns and offers ways to rebuild safety and trust in close relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches practical steps to change behaviors that reinforce distress.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Wendy will listen to your goals and preferences, then suggest methods that fit your situation. The plan is collaborative - adjustments are made as you learn what helps and what doesn’t.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face work for exercises and conversations. Phone sessions offer a simpler option when video is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging give flexible, on-the-go ways to check in and practice skills between sessions. These options aim to increase access and make consistent work possible across different schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English