About Wendy
Dr. Wendy Whinnery is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical support for common and complex concerns, including ADHD, anxiety, depression, grief, and stress.
Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel heard and get usable tools they can use day to day. She prefers a client-centered approach that centers the person's own goals and experiences.
Background and approach
Dr. Whinnery also uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior strategies when helpful. Sessions focus on clear steps and skills to manage symptoms and improve routines rather than on jargon or lengthy explanations.
Her background includes work with people facing trauma, relationship strain, parenting stress, addiction, and issues related to gender and sexuality. She draws on solution-focused ideas to help clients set concrete short-term goals and practice new behaviors between sessions. People who meet with her can expect direct feedback, practical homework, and a steady emphasis on strengths.
She aims to create a nonjudgmental space so clients can try new coping strategies without feeling criticized. Dr. Whinnery combines ten years of counseling experience with a focus on clear, usable techniques.
Her approach is collaborative: she helps people make plans that fit their daily lives and adjusts methods as needs change.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s priorities at the center of each session and focuses on listening, empathy, and collaborating on goals. This approach helps when someone needs a calm, steady space to sort feelings and decide what matters most to them.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, low mood, ADHD-related routines, and coping with daily stressors.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, emphasizes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships. It can be useful when emotions feel overwhelming or when someone needs clear strategies to manage strong reactions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will ask about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then suggest methods to try. Plans are adjusted over time based on what the client finds helpful, so sessions feel tailored rather than fixed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone is helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a brief check-in, and messaging supports ongoing contact and practice between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or home schedules while using the therapeutic approaches above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual dysfunction
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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