Wendy Weston
Calm, practical guidance for family challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Wendy
Wendy Weston is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Idaho who focuses on clear, practical help for people facing stressful life problems. She uses straightforward talk and evidence-based methods to address issues like anxiety, depression, addictions, and parenting concerns. Wendy aims to make the first steps into counseling feel manageable and understandable for worried parents and individuals.
She brings eight years as an LPC alongside longer experience in related fields.
Background and approach
That background informs how she listens for patterns in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Wendy works with people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy and relationship struggles, and challenges such as ADHD and compassion fatigue. Her sessions emphasize collaboration and practical tools.
Clients can expect focused strategies from approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, combined with client-centered listening. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotional regulation or intense reactions are present. Wendy has additional experience with adoption and foster care issues, body image, caregiver stress, and substance use concerns.
She aims to pair clear goals with small, achievable steps so progress feels real and measurable. The work typically includes talking through patterns, trying specific coping skills, and deciding on actions that fit daily life. Parents who are worried about behavior, sleep, or eating issues can find practical guidance and steady support.
How Wendy Uses Therapy Methods Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take action toward those values even when feelings are difficult. Online ACT sessions can help with stress, anxiety, and adapting to life changes by teaching practical steps for committed action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and replacing them with more helpful ones. CBT delivered through telehealth works well for anxiety, depression, sleep or eating concerns, and many day-to-day problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and reducing impulsive behaviors; some online sessions include DBT skills coaching and practice.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, symptoms, and daily routines and then recommend strategies to try. That plan can change as progress is made, and decisions about methods are made together to fit each persons needs and preferences.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make scheduling more flexible for busy parents and people with travel or mobility limits. They also let clients use the approaches above from home while keeping sessions focused on practical skills and step-by-step progress.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
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