About Wendy
Wendy Schultz is a licensed clinical social worker who draws on 11 years of experience to help people move through hard times. She practices in Illinois and focuses on practical skills, motivation, and building strengths. Wendy meets people where they are and helps them take the next step toward a more engaged life.
Wendy often works with people who feel stuck, uninspired, or overwhelmed by change. She helps clients address stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and issues with anger and addiction.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with relationship tension, intimacy concerns, grief, and career or life transitions. Her sessions emphasize skill building and integration. Clients learn simple, usable strategies they can try between meetings.
Wendy uses an approach that centers the person and their goals, while also addressing patterns rooted in attachment and emotion. Therapy with Wendy can include focused conversation, structured exercises, and motivational prompts. She may introduce techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches and emotionally-focused work to shift patterns of thinking and relating.
Hypnotherapy is also part of her toolkit when it fits a persons goals. Wendy aims to create a nonjudgmental space for honest conversation. She encourages practical steps toward improved self-esteem, coping with life changes, and clearer communication.
Taking a first step is acknowledged as an act of courage, and Wendy uses that momentum to help people keep moving forward.
Approaches that translate to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships. It helps people understand patterns that lead to feeling disconnected or reactive, and supports building clearer ways of relating. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and collaboration. The therapist follows the person's concerns and priorities and creates space for them to find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and teaches practical techniques to change them, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Wendy will discuss goals and preferences and then recommend options together with the client. That collaborative planning lets the work match what a person wants to change and how they prefer to work, whether they want short-term skill building or deeper emotional exploration.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports shorter reflections between sessions. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules and make it easier for people to maintain consistent progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English