About Wendi
Wendi Makus offers a practical, person-focused approach to counseling. She emphasizes seeing the whole person instead of only symptoms. Wendi speaks plainly about goals and steps, and she keeps sessions grounded and forward-looking to help people cope with life changes and painful experiences.
Wendi draws on several therapy styles to match each person's needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice thoughts and choose actions that match their values.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thinking patterns that keep problems going and replace them with more helpful habits. Attachment-Based Therapy is part of her work when relationship patterns or early wounds show up in daily life. Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools support emotion regulation and coping when feelings feel overwhelming.
Sessions also follow client-centered principles, so the person’s own goals guide the pace and focus. Her background includes 13 years in counseling and holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential. Wendi works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, grief, addiction, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and parenting challenges.
She also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment wounds, codependency, communication problems, and blended family concerns. Wendi provides online options from Arkansas. Sessions can be video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She asks new clients to start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on the therapist’s availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by focusing on what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It is often useful for anxiety, sleep problems, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build healthier ways of relating and coping when past wounds influence present life.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Wendi works collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions are guided by the client’s priorities and adjusted over time as progress and needs change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people have a full conversation and see nonverbal cues, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter connection is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or a way to reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use the approaches above in ways that match each person’s routine and comfort.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas, Oregon, Maine, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English