About Wendy
Wendy Foote is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who helps people facing persistent stress, anxiety, trauma, and relationship struggles. She is based in Illinois and brings 18 years of experience to conversations about mood, coping, and life changes. Wendy is direct about who benefits most from therapy and invites clients ready to do deeper work.
Her approach centers on clear, honest conversation where feelings and thoughts can be named without judgment.
Background and approach
She draws on tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach practical skills for managing mood, impulsivity, and overwhelming emotions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas also guide values-based choices and steadying action. Wendy often supports people dealing with grief, addiction, eating and sleeping problems, and intimacy-related concerns.
She also helps with family issues like parenting stress, communication breakdowns, and struggles around control or dependency. ADHD is one of the listed concerns she addresses alongside mood and trauma-related symptoms. In sessions she focuses on real-life changes that clients can habitually practice between meetings.
Therapy may include setting small, achievable goals, learning skills for distress tolerance, and tracking behaviors that get in the way of daily functioning. She emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes. Wendy is candid that her work suits people ready for meaningful change.
She asks clients to engage in the process and try new strategies outside of sessions. That commitment is part of her model for long-term improvement.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps that match those values. It is useful for motivation, coping with life changes, and managing ADHD-related difficulties in focus and follow-through.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going. It teaches concrete strategies for changing unhelpful thinking, improving sleep and eating habits, and reducing anxiety symptoms.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions can be done by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice, while phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and skill coaching easier between scheduled meetings. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it simpler to use therapy tools consistently.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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