About Wendy
Wendy Ross is a California licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, career tensions, and depression. Wendy approaches sessions with a straightforward, respectful style and supports people who want clearer direction and steadier coping skills.
She centers the work on each person’s strengths and choices. Wendy treats clients as the experts of their own story and helps them map small, practical steps forward.
Background and approach
She values direct conversation and aims to make the process feel manageable and hopeful. Wendy often uses structured exercises to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also listens for what matters most to a person and builds motivation around those priorities.
Sessions can include short problem-solving plans and tools to handle immediate stressors. Her background includes two decades working with people facing life transitions, loss, and pressure at work. That experience informs a calm, steady presence in sessions and a focus on useful skills rather than jargon.
Wendy tailors techniques to each person’s goals and pace. People who come to Wendy typically want clear strategies and a supportive partner in change. She helps with communication problems, forgiveness, feelings of guilt or shame, isolation, and questions about life purpose.
She is available to people in California and accepts international clients.
Approach-Focused Online Therapy That Fits Your Life
Wendy commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and meeting people where they are, creating space to tell their story and name what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers practical exercises to spot and change patterns of thinking and behavior that keep stress and anxiety going.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Wendy will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. Together they set small, achievable steps and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer written exchanges or want more frequent brief touchpoints between sessions.
These options increase flexibility and help people keep momentum while working on stress, grief, confidence, and career concerns with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
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- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English