Wendy Duncan Kithcart
Family-focused LCSW guiding practical change
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Wendy
Wendy Duncan Kithcart is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on family and parenting concerns. She uses a direct, warm style to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. Wendy emphasizes listening first and creating a space where people can speak honestly about what they are facing.
She draws on a range of practical methods tailored to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and build skills for coping.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches emotion regulation and better ways to handle intense feelings. Client-Centered Therapy keeps sessions grounded in the client’s priorities and goals. Wendy brings 18 years of professional experience in North Carolina to her work.
She has worked with trauma and abuse, addictions, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar, and issues that often affect families like communication problems, blended family dynamics, and attachment concerns. Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She talks with clients about small, manageable steps and practices they can try between sessions.
The focus is on clear skills, honest conversation, and making gradual changes that fit daily life. Wendy offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. She provides support for a wide range of concerns, including parenting, family conflict, coping with life changes, self-esteem, and chronic illness or disability-related stress.
Therapy approaches and how they work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and values. The therapist listens without judgment and helps shape sessions around what matters most. This approach is useful when someone needs a steady, respectful space to sort through family or parenting worries.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. Sessions break problems into clear steps and teach practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. It can help with anxiety, depression, and stress that affect daily family life.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, provides skills for regulating emotions and improving communication. It can be especially helpful for intense reactions and relationship conflict often seen in family situations.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. This is a collaborative process that can change as people make progress or face new challenges.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules, attend from different locations, or use shorter check-ins when needed. The variety of formats supports steady follow-through and lets people practice new skills between meetings.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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