About Wendy
Wendy Key is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with 12 years of experience. She welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed and helps them find steady ways to cope. Her work often focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, and issues tied to relationships and life transitions.
She uses practical, straightforward methods in sessions. Wendy listens and helps people name what feels hard. Then she and the client choose small, doable steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Many clients come for help with addiction recovery, self-esteem, grief, and anger management. Wendy also supports those navigating sexual orientation and gender identity concerns, career pressures, and chronic health or caregiving stress. She pays attention to how past attachment or abandonment experiences shape present behavior.
Therapy addresses daily functioning as well as deeper emotional wounds. Her approach blends evidence-based tools with an emphasis on personal values and belief systems. She aims to respect each person’s values while offering new ways to respond to difficult feelings.
Sessions emphasize clearer communication, healthier routines, and more effective coping skills. People working with Wendy can expect a direct, compassionate style that balances listening with practical problem solving. She helps clients set realistic goals and track progress.
The pace and focus change based on each person’s needs and what they want to achieve.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking meaningful action even when hard feelings are present. It helps people who struggle with avoidance, chronic anxiety, depression, or difficulty sticking with goals by teaching skills to accept internal experience and move toward what matters.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thought patterns and build new habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing ADHD-related challenges.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship. The therapist listens deeply and supports clients in finding their own solutions, which is useful for improving self-esteem, processing grief, and working through identity or values questions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Wendy will review goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up, then recommend one or a mix of methods. The process is collaborative, with adjustments made based on what helps most.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people meet face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow for ongoing support between sessions and quick reflections after a difficult moment. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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