About Wendy
Wendy Gilchrist is an Illinois licensed clinical professional counselor with 20 years of experience. She combines a long career in nonprofit leadership with clinical work to support people facing stress, grief, relationship problems, and mood concerns. Wendy speaks English and Spanish and brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions.
Her path began after an MBA, creating programs for homeless youth and survivors of abuse. That nonprofit work led to a desire to help people heal, and she later completed training to become an LCPC.
How Wendy works
Her clinical background includes hospitals and trauma-informed programs, giving her experience with complex loss and crisis care. In sessions she uses straightforward approaches like client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative methods. She helps people identify patterns, change unhelpful thoughts, and practice small steps that alter daily life.
Conversations are collaborative and focused on clear goals. Wendy often supports people with mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, anxiety, anger, attention concerns, and parenting or family stress. She also addresses issues like chronic illness, body image, codependency, grief, and career strain.
Her background includes work with first responder concerns and trauma-related situations. People who prefer a therapist who is practical, values-driven, and experienced in both nonprofit and clinical settings may find her approach helpful. She offers talk-based sessions that emphasize coping skills, understanding life patterns, and steady progress toward realistic goals.
Wendy lists 8 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
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Wendy commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, reflection, and building understanding so people feel heard and can find their own solutions; it helps with relationship struggles, stress, and self-esteem. Cognitive behavioral therapy addresses the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions by spotting unhelpful patterns and practicing different responses, which suits anxiety, depression, and anger management.She also draws on mindfulness techniques to help people notice their experience and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness practice can support coping with chronic pain, stress, and mood swings by teaching simple attention and breathing exercises. Choosing the right mix of approaches is a shared process; Wendy will work with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences rather than imposing a single path.
Online therapy with her is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, use a shorter check-in during a break at work, pick a phone call when bandwidth is low, or keep a written record through messaging. The range of formats supports ongoing progress while offering flexibility for different schedules and needs.
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