About Wendy
Wendy Weston is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for people facing addiction, anxiety, stress, and related struggles. She brings eight years of counseling experience and a background serving in demanding roles. Wendy aims to create a working relationship that feels respectful and hopeful from the first visit.
She uses a client-centered style that keeps the person's goals in view. Sessions look at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and move toward small, doable steps.
Background and approach
Wendy blends approaches such as cognitive behavioral strategies, acceptance and commitment ideas, and mindfulness tools to match each person's needs. Her past roles have given her experience with crisis response and with people involved in child welfare and LGBTQ+ concerns, which informs how she responds to trauma, grief, and the stresses of caregiving.
She focuses on addiction work while also helping with relationship strain, sleep and eating concerns, and managing mood conditions like depression and bipolar disorder. Wendy pays attention to the daily realities that make change hard. She helps people build skills for emotion regulation, improve communication, and set boundaries.
Many sessions include practical exercises and simple routines to practice between meetings. She describes therapy as a partnership. Wendy listens first, then offers techniques and experiments people can try.
The aim is to make steady progress toward clearer values, better coping, and more stable daily functioning.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on actions tied to personal values. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, behaviors, and mood and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping with stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to goals and preferences and then recommend methods to try. Sessions remain collaborative, with choices about which techniques to keep, adapt, or stop based on what helps you most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video sessions let you use face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messages can fit into busy schedules and are useful for quick reflections or between-session contact. These options make therapy more flexible for people juggling work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English