About Wendy
Wendy Weston is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Idaho with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and manage anxiety, addictions, mood concerns, and ADHD. Wendy aims to make the decision to start therapy feel manageable and hopeful.
She draws on a client-centered style that emphasizes listening and building trust. Sessions involve talking through thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and trying small, concrete steps to change how life feels day to day.
Background and approach
Wendy combines that approach with tools from cognitive behavioral methods and acceptance-based work. Her background includes years of front-line experience in high-stress roles and work within child welfare systems, which informs her calm, direct way of addressing complex problems. That history helps her stay practical when people are coping with grief, trauma, or compassion fatigue.
Wendy often uses mindfulness and skills training to help people manage intense emotions and addictive patterns. She also supports people with relationship concerns, self-esteem struggles, eating or sleeping problems, and career stress. Those interventions are aimed at improving day-to-day functioning and coping.
Her sessions are collaborative. She asks about goals and then tailors strategies to what a person needs and prefers. Wendy encourages steady progress through workable habits rather than sudden, sweeping change.
People can expect clear conversation, practical exercises, and a steady focus on improving routine functioning. Wendy works in English and practices from Idaho, bringing lived experience of high-pressure work into her counseling style.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose values-driven actions. It teaches practical ways to accept difficult feelings while still moving toward meaningful goals, which can be useful for anxiety, mood issues, and ADHD-related frustration.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought patterns that lead to distress and testing them with real-life experiments. It offers concrete tools for managing anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and habits linked to addictions.
Finding the right approach is often a process. The therapist collaborates with each person to match methods to goals and preferences, mixing strategies as needed. This means sessions can shift over time from skill-building to values work or problem solving, depending on what helps most.
Online therapy can make regular sessions easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls let people work face-to-face when a deeper conversation is helpful. Phone sessions are a lower-bandwidth option when video is not possible, and live chat or text messaging supports quick check-ins, shorter skill practice, or between-session coaching.
These formats give flexibility for steady progress, letting people try techniques in real time and bring examples from daily life into sessions. Licensed professionals can adapt tools like ACT and CBT to these online formats so work continues between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
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