Wendy Schultz, LCSW

Wendy Schultz is a licensed clinical social worker with eleven years of experience supporting people through stressful life phases. She practices in Illinois and approaches therapy as part of staying well. Wendy welcomes clients who are unsure about goals or facing big changes and helps them find practical ways forward.

She uses an integration of strengths-based work and skills training. Sessions focus on building everyday tools for coping with anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, addiction concerns, ADHD, and career questions. Wendy describes therapy as a place to try creative exercises, practice new habits, and get motivational support.

Clients often come with mixed feelings about starting therapy. Wendy works to create an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through. She helps people break problems into small, doable steps and learn skills they can use right away.

Her approach draws on attachment-informed ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive behavior strategies, emotion-focused work, and hypnotherapy techniques when appropriate. These methods are used to address intimacy issues, self-esteem, anger, and trauma-related concerns among others.

Wendy encourages commitment to personal goals and offers challenging exercises alongside encouragement. She frames therapy as a collaborative process aimed at finding workable changes that fit daily life and help people move toward a more engaged, meaningful routine.

How therapy approaches translate online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape feelings and behavior. Online work with attachment ideas helps people notice patterns in close relationships and practice new ways of connecting or setting boundaries. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and acceptance; online sessions give space for clients to be heard and to make sense of their goals at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets thoughts and behaviors with concrete exercises, such as tracking unhelpful thoughts and trying new actions between sessions, which adapts well to remote work.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean mixing attachment perspectives, client-centered listening, and CBT exercises until a good fit emerges.

Confirm the current session options before booking, as specific formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when needed, and making it possible to schedule sessions around work or caregiving responsibilities. It also supports carrying over practical exercises into daily routines so clients can try skills between meetings.