About Wendy
Wendy Salazar greets people who are worn out by stress, anxiety, depression, or big life changes. She writes in straightforward terms and listens without judgment. Wendy aims to help people make steady, realistic changes they can carry into daily life.
Wendy brings 20 years of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas. She uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral approaches alongside client-centered and mindfulness work. Sessions focus on practical steps and on understanding patterns that keep problems repeating.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with mood concerns, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and grief. She also supports people dealing with parenting stress, relationship troubles, career strain, and compassion fatigue. Wendy pays attention to how emotional and physical health connect in everyday routines.
In sessions she asks questions and reflects what she hears so people can see options more clearly. She helps set small, measurable goals and practices skills together, such as breathing or thought-checking exercises. Narrative techniques are used when it helps a person reframe difficult stories about themselves.
Wendy offers care in English and Spanish and works with people across many life situations. Her approach is collaborative - she partners with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and daily life. The emphasis is on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Approaches that guide online care
Wendy commonly draws on Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and responding with empathy so a person feels heard and understood; it helps when someone needs a steady, nonjudgmental space to sort feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors together and teaches specific skills for managing anxiety, low mood, or anger by changing unhelpful thinking and routines.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Wendy treats this as a collaboration - she will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that fit their needs and daily life. If one method isn’t helpful, she adjusts plans and tries different tools until a good fit emerges.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick check-ins, written reflections, or ongoing support between sessions. These options give flexibility to work on skills and goals in ways that match a person’s schedule and comfort.
Questions people ask
What issues does Wendy address in therapy?
What is her general approach in sessions?
How much experience does she have?
What are her credentials and where is she based?
Which languages are sessions offered in?
What formats are available for remote work?
How does pricing work for sessions?
How do I begin working with Wendy?
What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish