About Wendy
Wendy Glass Givens is a licensed clinical social worker in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, family concerns, and low self-esteem. She brings seven years of counseling experience to conversations about difficult feelings and life transitions. Her manner is calm and straightforward, aimed at helping people find practical ways to feel steadier day to day.
Wendy uses a Christian-informed perspective when clients want faith to be part of their healing.
Background and approach
She makes room for spiritual concerns and for personal values to guide the work. Sessions focus on understanding what matters to each person and finding steps that fit their life. Conversations are collaborative and paced to the individual.
She listens for strengths and patterns, then helps people try concrete strategies to reduce overwhelm and improve mood. Homework and small experiments are offered when useful to build new habits between sessions. Wendy is based in California and holds a California Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential.
She combines professional skill with a respectful, faith-aware stance for clients who want that element present. Her goal is to help people build resilience and clearer direction in their daily life. The tone in sessions is practical and compassionate.
People can expect clear, steady support while they work through grief, family strain, anxiety, or setbacks in self-esteem. The focus is on realistic change and finding ways to move forward that feel doable.
Approaches and online flexibility for steady progress
Wendy draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and building coping skills. Cognitive-style methods look at thinking patterns that feed anxiety or low mood and teach practical ways to shift those patterns to feel less overwhelmed and more in control. Behavioral techniques focus on small, doable actions to rebuild routines, increase rewarding activities, and reduce avoidance that keeps problems stuck.She also integrates supportive, faith-aware conversation when clients want a Christian-informed perspective included. This approach holds space for spiritual values while working on emotional goals, and it can help people align personal beliefs with their coping strategies. Choosing which techniques to use is a collaborative process; the therapist will work with each person to decide what fits their needs, goals, and preferences.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions let people work face to face from a convenient location, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers quick check-ins, and messaging allows short updates and reflection between appointments. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different day-to-day needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
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- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English