About Wendy
Wendy Goffena is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with nine years as a clinician and many more years in mental health roles. She practices in Montana and brings long experience from community mental health and varied treatment settings. Wendy often sees adults dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and life transitions.
She favors a client-centered style. Wendy treats each person as the expert on their life and works alongside them to set goals.
How Wendy works
Sessions focus on building strengths, practical skills, and small steps that fit daily routines. Wendy draws from several evidence-based methods to match what a person needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice how thoughts affect mood and behavior.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills support emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy adds mindfulness and values-based actions to help people move forward. For people processing trauma, Wendy offers EMDR techniques to address painful memories and reduce their hold on current life.
Her work also includes support for parenting stresses, caregiver strain, grief, chronic illness, and challenges like sleep problems or burnout. Her background includes community mental health, medical social work, inpatient youth treatment, correctional facility work, child protective services, and outpatient programs. That range informs a practical, down-to-earth approach that aims to help people feel steadier and more capable in daily life.
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
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Montana |
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Online support options
How Wendy's Approaches Work Online
Wendy uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people see how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and to practice small, concrete changes that reduce distress. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many everyday challenges.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach skills for mood regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. DBT skills are practical tools people can use during stressful moments and at home.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Wendy collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adjusts strategies over time based on what helps most, so therapy stays focused and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for in-depth conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when a quick check-in fits into a busy day. Messaging and live chat allow brief check-ins, homework sharing, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and to keep practicing skills where they matter most.
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