About Wendy
Wendy Chinn is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship struggles, career questions, and life transitions. She also supports those working through ADHD, self-esteem challenges, and family-related concerns. Wendy writes plainly and listens closely to understand what brought someone to therapy.
She earned a master’s degree in Counseling and Human Development from Radford University and holds bachelor degrees in Communications and Psychology from Virginia Tech.
Background and approach
Wendy has practiced for about 15 years in Virginia across public and higher education, a personal agency, and a religious setting. She has experience seeing individuals, couples, and families in clinical counseling roles. In sessions she mixes client-centered work with cognitive behavioral strategies and solution-focused techniques.
That means conversations begin with the client’s goals and values, and then practical steps are identified to test and reinforce change. Mindfulness and trauma-focused techniques are added when they fit the situation. Wendy emphasizes clear, manageable steps.
She helps people learn coping skills, improve communication, and set realistic goals. Therapy often includes short exercises, skill practice between sessions, and checking progress together. The aim is to figure out what matters to the person and then build tools to make daily life easier.
Wendy focuses on practical outcomes like reduced anxiety, better coping with loss or change, clearer decisions about work and relationships, and improved self-understanding.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy starts with the client's own concerns and values. The therapist listens and helps set goals that matter to the person, then shapes sessions around those priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavioral experiments to change how those thoughts affect mood and behavior. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and work or relationship stress. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on addressing the effects of traumatic events with careful pacing and skills to manage strong reactions, and it can help reduce symptoms that follow difficult experiences.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the situation, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients are invited to give feedback and to work together on a plan that feels practical and realistic.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let conversations feel more like an in-person visit, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins or when typing is easier, and all formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Oregon
- Languages
- English