About Wendy
Wendy Gaunt is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania who helps people facing relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, and issues around identity and sexuality. She also supports people dealing with grief, addiction, parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, and career or life transitions. Her style is warm and direct.
She treats therapy as a collaboration rather than a lecture. Wendy uses practical tools to help people manage symptoms and make changes.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and goals. Attachment-based ideas guide work on patterns in close relationships. Sessions focus on what the person wants to change and on small steps that can be tried between meetings.
Conversations may include skill practice, developing new ways to talk with others, and coping strategies for days that feel overwhelming. She also addresses deeper issues such as shame, dissociation, or past harm when it’s relevant. She brings five years of experience working across different clinical settings, which informs a flexible, person-centered approach.
Wendy emphasizes strengths and resilience while being willing to meet difficult feelings head on. The aim is to support people so they can make clearer choices and notice gradual shifts in how they live. Wendy offers sessions in English and provides multiple online formats.
People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on her availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people name what matters to them and take actions that match those values. Online sessions can use ACT exercises to notice thoughts, set goals, and practice small value-driven steps between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot patterns of thinking that increase anxiety or depression and replace them with more helpful behaviors. CBT works well through video or phone sessions where thought records and behavioral experiments are reviewed together.Choosing a primary approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then she will suggest strategies to try and adjust them based on what feels useful, so therapy stays responsive and collaborative.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video lets people read nonverbal cues and practice communication skills. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a simpler option when getting on camera is difficult. Live chat or text can be used for brief check-ins, journaling prompts, or between-session support that doesn’t require scheduling a full call.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English