About Wendy
Wendy Gatewood is a licensed clinical social worker with 22 years of experience. She practices in Indiana and brings long-term clinical experience to common and complex concerns. Wendy focuses on practical steps people can use to feel steadier and more able to cope.
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. She also supports people facing grief, parenting strain, eating and body image issues, and struggles with self-esteem.
How Wendy works
Relationship and communication problems are a common reason people reach out to her. Wendy uses several well-established approaches to meet people where they are. She draws on client-centered therapy to follow each person's priorities, cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits, and dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotion regulation is a focus.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are available when change feels stuck and concrete goals are needed. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Sessions tend to focus on clear strategies, small experiments to try between meetings, and checking what works for each person.
She emphasizes realistic goals and teaches coping skills people can use right away. Wendy practices online through video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are offered in English and organized through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.
Wendy lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Wendy works with
The areas below are the ones Wendy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
Approaches for online sessions and practical tools
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's goals and experience. The therapist listens, follows the client's lead, and helps clarify what matters most so progress matches real priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact; it helps people spot unhelpful thinking and practice new behaviors for anxiety, depression, and mood concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Wendy will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That may mean trying one approach for a few sessions and adjusting as progress is measured and preferences emerge.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between meetings or have shorter, focused exchanges. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and maintain momentum between appointments.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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