Wendi Cancilla
Calm, practical therapy for parenting and life
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed in
- Washington, Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Wendi
Wendi Cancilla is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, trauma, and relationship struggles. She brings 24 years of clinical experience and a calm, practical manner to each session. Wendi aims to make conversations straightforward and useful for parents feeling overwhelmed or uncertain.
Her work focuses on real-life problems like sleep disruption, grief, anger, addiction concerns, and coping with major life changes. She also addresses issues related to ADHD, self-esteem, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Wendi uses methods that help clients notice patterns and try small, doable changes between sessions. In sessions she blends practical therapy styles tailored to what a person needs in the moment. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to reframe distressing thoughts.
She adds solution-focused tools to set short-term goals and motivational interviewing when clients want help finding direction. Wendi has licensure in Washington and brings experience supporting people through illness, caregiver stress, blended family concerns, adoption and foster care questions, and the long shadow of early abandonment. She also works with issues related to aging, cancer, and co-morbid mental health challenges.
Her approach is steady, direct, and rooted in real-world coping skills. Parents reading about therapy will find sessions that aim for clear steps and problem-solving. Wendi encourages small experiments and practical strategies that fit busy family life.
She helps people build tools to manage symptoms and move toward clearer priorities.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Wendi commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused therapy in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and behaving; it is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress. Solution-focused therapy centers on small, achievable goals and what is already working in a person's life to create immediate change.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She discusses options with clients and adjusts methods based on needs, goals, and what feels most helpful. That collaborative planning helps tailor sessions to parenting demands, work schedules, and changing priorities.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow flexibility when juggling family responsibilities. These options make it easier to fit short check-ins, longer weekly sessions, or quick message-based coaching into a busy routine. The variety of formats supports consistent contact and practical follow-through between meetings.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Florida
- Languages
- English
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