About Gretchen
Gretchen Wesche, LICSW, helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD and relationship strain. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier. Her approach is direct and compassionate.
She aims to help people feel steadier and more able to manage challenges. Gretchen draws on 37 years of experience in Minnesota to guide conversations about grief, self-esteem, addiction, career transitions, and family concerns. She listens for what matters most and then helps shape small, doable changes.
Background and approach
Sessions often center on clear goals and simple skills people can try between meetings. Her work includes addressing communication problems, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and the impacts of aging. She supports people coping with bipolar mood shifts, anger, sleeping troubles, and feelings of emptiness or shame.
Gretchen also assists those navigating parenting pressures, fatherhood issues, and the strain of caregiving. Therapy uses a mix of client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and psychodynamic thinking. That mix is chosen to suit each person’s needs rather than follow a single formula.
Expect practical tools, time to reflect, and a steady focus on what you want to change. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client’s life.
Costs vary with location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches that fit online counseling
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and helping people identify their own goals. It’s useful for building self-awareness, improving communication, and clarifying what matters most in daily life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches straightforward skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It often helps with anxiety, depression, sleeping problems, and managing ADHD-related routines.
Mindfulness therapy encourages simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and increase focus. It can be helpful for stress, anger, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gretchen collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they try strategies, monitor how they work, and adjust the plan over time.
Online sessions offer practical advantages. Video calls make it possible to meet face-to-face without travel. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit during a work break. Live chat or text messaging can work for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or follow-up between meetings. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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