About Wendy
Wendy Duncan Kithcart provides care grounded in client-centered work and practical skills. She is a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina (LCSW) with 18 years of experience. Wendy aims to make conversations feel simple and human.
She encourages people to take small steps toward feeling more steady and in control. Wendy focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, addiction, relationship strain, and issues related to self-esteem and anger.
Background and approach
She also addresses complex life changes such as adoption and foster care, attachment questions, chronic illness, and family of origin problems. Her caseload includes work around bipolar disorder and disruptive mood dysregulation concerns. In session she blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
That means she listens first, then helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new behaviors. Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs help finding reasons to change and making a plan. Wendy keeps language plain and practical during sessions.
She helps people break big problems into manageable steps. Conversations focus on realistic goals and usable skills that can be tried between meetings. She offers services from North Carolina and communicates in English.
Wendy welcomes people who need help navigating family stress, trauma, life transitions, and mood or behavioral challenges.
Online approaches that focus on skills and connection
Wendy uses client-centered therapy to start by listening and understanding a person’s priorities. That approach focuses on building a trusting conversation and letting the client set goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different actions to change mood and behavior. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for handling strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can help with anger, relationship strain, and mood instability.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Wendy will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then together they decide which methods to try. She often blends approaches so sessions match what the person needs right now rather than sticking to one technique.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people interact face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can work when someone has limited bandwidth or prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, mood tracking, or when a person wants to reflect in writing between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or medical schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English