About Wende
Dr. Wende Pannell focuses on people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or big life changes. She helps those dealing with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Her name and role are clear from the start: she is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Illinois with 22 years of experience. She keeps sessions simple and direct. Conversations tend to center on what is most distressing now and what practical steps can reduce pressure.
How Wende works
Wende uses methods that help people notice unhelpful thoughts, strengthen important relationships, and build coping skills for day-to-day life. Her work often addresses persistent worries, panic attacks, mood concerns, and difficulties with communication and control. She also supports people facing chronic illness or pain, caregiver stress, midlife transitions, and career or money worries.
Clients can expect help with things like guilt, shame, impulsivity, isolation, and finding life purpose. Therapy combines several approaches to match a person's needs. That might mean learning skills for emotion regulation, exploring how attachments shape current patterns, or clarifying values to guide difficult choices.
The tone in sessions is compassionate and practical rather than academic. Wende aims to help people build self-compassion, repair connections, and move toward clearer goals. She encourages steady progress through small, achievable steps and ongoing conversation about what is working.
Wende lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Wende works with
The areas below are the ones Wende selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. It can help with anxiety, depression, stress, and making major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors through practical exercises and skill-building. It often helps with panic, mood disorders, and worry. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people understand and change the way they connect with others, which can ease relationship strain and feelings of isolation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps and what doesn’t, so the process feels tailored rather than fixed.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial cues and have more in-depth conversations, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, processing emotions between sessions, or when writing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health routines while keeping the focus on practical support and progress.
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