About Wendy
Wendy Schultz is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 11 years of practice to her work. She frames therapy as a routine part of health care and offers clear, practical support for people feeling stuck or overwhelmed. Wendy listens first and then helps clients set small, achievable goals.
She uses skill-building and strength-focused techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, and mood shifts. Sessions are conversational and aimed at making changes that fit into everyday life.
Background and approach
Many clients come to her feeling uninspired, unfulfilled, or unsure what they want next. Wendy offers motivational exercises and creative tools to help explore purpose, improve confidence, and address career concerns. She also supports people coping with grief, trauma, addictions, and relationship pain.
Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and emotionally-focused strategies. She incorporates brief hypnotherapy when appropriate to help with focus, relaxation, and habit change. The methods are chosen to match each person's situation and goals.
Wendy works with adults across a wide range of concerns including ADHD, bipolar, self-esteem problems, and first responder stress. She aims to make therapy practical, teaching skills that can be used right away. People who want steady guidance and exercises to practice between sessions often find her approach helpful.
Approach and online care that fit your life
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current connection patterns. It helps people understand why they react the way they do in close relationships and supports healthier ways of relating. Client-centered therapy centers on respectful listening and real empathy. It gives people space to name what matters and to move at their own pace while receiving steady support. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns and manage anxiety, mood, and attention challenges.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Wendy will talk with you about your goals and try different techniques to see what fits. Together you will pick methods and homework that match your needs and daily routine, adjusting as progress or new issues appear.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let you have a face-to-face conversation from wherever you are. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short check-ins, quick coaching, and ongoing accountability between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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