About Wendy
Wendy Gilchrist is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with 20 years of direct practice. She blends a long career in human services with clinical experience in hospital psychiatric units and trauma-informed programs. Her background includes nonprofit leadership and program development that served people facing homelessness, abuse, and economic hardship.
Wendy offers a straightforward, respectful style. She listens first and helps people name what matters most. Sessions focus on practical steps, coping skills, and clearer routines that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
Parents often appreciate her calm approach when stress or family conflict feels overwhelming. Her work covers mood concerns such as depression, bipolar symptoms, anxiety, and anger along with adjustment to life changes and grief. She also supports people managing chronic illness, pain, or compassion fatigue and those wanting help with self-esteem, career direction, or relationship challenges.
ADHD is listed among her focus areas and is part of her experience with attention and executive functioning concerns. Wendy uses familiar methods like client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and narrative work. She adapts these tools to each person’s situation rather than following a single script.
Sessions may include skill practice, thought reframing, or rewriting the personal story people tell themselves. Wendy offers services in English and Spanish and has worked across inpatient and outpatient settings. Her history of nonprofit and clinical roles informs a practical, person-focused approach for people looking for steady, experienced support.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Wendy often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and building a trusting conversation so people can set their own goals and feel heard. This approach is helpful when someone needs steady support and a space to sort priorities.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, a practical method that looks at thought patterns and the behaviors that follow. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and developing new coping skills people can use between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Wendy treats the choice as collaborative, adjusting methods to fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences rather than applying one technique to everyone. She will talk through options and try different strategies until something feels useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be shorter or easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging provide a way to check in between calls or fit brief sessions into a busy day. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care and maintain progress despite a hectic schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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