About Wendy
Wendy Fydenkevez is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with eight years of experience in social services and clinical practice. She has spent her career working across many settings and with diverse people, including members of the LGBTQIA community. Wendy focuses on practical help for everyday problems that cause stress and worry.
She often meets people who are juggling relationship problems, grief, changes at work, or struggles with mood and anxiety.
Background and approach
These issues can bring on sleep trouble, anger, low self-esteem, or patterns of substance use. Wendy listens for the immediate problem and the life story behind it so she can offer down-to-earth support. Her style blends a warm, client-centered way of working with concrete tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and motivational interviewing.
She also uses mindfulness and narrative methods to help people notice patterns and tell a different story about themselves. Conversations aim to build trust, set small goals, and try doable changes between sessions. Wendy helps people sort through interpersonal conflict, decision points, and transitions.
Sessions often include skill-building for coping, communication, and managing mood or attention challenges such as ADHD. She explains ideas plainly and focuses on steps a person can use right away. Wendy practices in Massachusetts and conducts sessions in English.
She offers video calls, phone appointments, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How her approaches translate to online care
Wendy uses client-centered therapy to make sessions feel collaborative and respectful. This approach centers on listening, understanding each person's goals, and shaping sessions around what matters most to them. It helps when someone needs a steady, accepting space to talk through worries or relationship issues.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT offers practical tools for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and attention-related challenges like ADHD by teaching skills to change unhelpful thinking and routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Wendy will discuss different methods with each person and together decide what to try first based on goals and preferences. That collaborative planning can be adjusted as needs change over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth. Live chat or texting suit brief check-ins or moments when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and fit therapy into real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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