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Online therapist

Wendy Salazar

Practical support for stressful family changes

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Credentials
LPC
Experience
20 years
Licensed in
Texas
Languages
English, Spanish
Format
Online sessions

About Wendy

Wendy Salazar is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, mood changes, and life transitions. She works in both English and Spanish and brings two decades of experience to each session. Wendy aims to offer practical tools and steady support so clients can handle day-to-day worries and stronger emotional moments.

Wendy uses straightforward, collaborative sessions. She listens first, then helps clients set small goals and try strategies that fit their life.

Background and approach

Conversations often include skill-building for coping, ways to rethink stressful thoughts, and steps to manage difficult feelings. Her background includes long experience with depression, trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, grief, and stress related to caregiving or first responder roles. She also has focused work around family problems, parenting, blended family issues, immigration concerns, and relationship difficulties like infidelity or separation.

This range informs how she adjusts practical exercises to each person’s situation. Wendy draws from Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness practices, Motivational Interviewing, and Narrative Therapy. Those approaches shape clear techniques - for example, noticing thought patterns, practicing moment-to-moment awareness, and telling one’s story in a new way.

Sessions are meant to be collaborative and paced according to the client’s needs. Based in Texas, Wendy is a Texas Licensed Professional Counselor, TX LPC 62366. She offers sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.

Approaches that translate well to online care

Client-Centered Therapy centers sessions on the person's needs and priorities, so the therapist follows the client's lead and builds practical support around what matters most. This approach helps people feel heard and guides goal setting that fits daily life.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns because it gives clear skills to practice between sessions.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches moment-to-moment awareness and simple attention practices. Those exercises can reduce reactivity to strong feelings and improve sleep, eating patterns, and stress handling.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Wendy will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods that match their goals, values, and comfort level. That process may shift over time as needs change.

Online therapy offers real flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions remove geographical barriers, and live chat or text-based messaging can provide brief check-ins or help practicing skills between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into busy family schedules and to continue work when life is unpredictable.

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.

Mindfulness Therapy

Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns can Wendy help with?
Wendy works with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting and family problems, trauma and abuse, grief, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, low self esteem, career stress, and related issues like attachment and abandonment.
What is her general therapeutic style like?
She uses a collaborative, practical style that focuses on listening first and then trying doable skills. Sessions mix talking, skill practice, and goal setting tailored to each person.
How much experience does she have?
Wendy has practiced in the mental health field for 20 years, bringing long-term clinical experience to common and complex concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, TX LPC 62366, and provides services based in Texas.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different schedules and preferences.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Wendy?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

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Experience
20 years
Licensed
Texas
Languages
English, Spanish

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