About Wendy
Wendy Theriot is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 11 years of experience. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters most. She acknowledges that starting therapy takes courage and respects that first step.
Wendy favors a client-centered way of working. That means the conversation is guided by the person's experience and goals. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and DBT skills to build emotion regulation and coping tools.
Background and approach
Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns. Common issues include stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar challenges, trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, and struggles with intimacy. She also helps people navigate parenting strain, career stress, and life transitions.
Wendy supports people facing overlapping or complex problems. Examples are chronic pain or illness combined with mood concerns, caregiver stress, body image issues, and attachment or abandonment wounds. She draws on mindfulness to help clients notice their experience without getting swept away.
Sessions are practical and conversational. People can expect to talk through immediate problems, practice new skills, and set small goals to try between sessions. Wendy aims to help clients build more workable day-to-day routines and clearer ways of relating to others.
How different approaches work in online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely and helps the client name goals and decide the pace of work. This approach is useful for a wide range of concerns because it centers the person's own values and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It teaches simple steps to test and change unhelpful thoughts and to try new behaviors. CBT can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. Sessions can include learning breathing and grounding tools, practicing distress-tolerance moves, and rehearsing clearer communication. These skills are often useful when emotions feel overwhelming.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with the client to match methods to goals, preferences, and needs. They may combine elements from different approaches and adjust as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstration, phone sessions can fit into a break at work, live chat gives a typed back-and-forth, and text-based messaging supports short check-ins and ongoing coaching. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments and to use therapy in everyday life.
Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Wendy address?
What is Wendy's general therapy style?
How much clinical experience does she have?
Where is Wendy licensed and based?
Which languages are supported for sessions?
What session formats are available?
How does billing and cost work?
How do I begin working with Wendy?
What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English