About Wendi
Wendi Cancilla is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and everyday challenges. She draws on 24 years of experience to offer steady support for depression, grief, addictions, ADHD, anger, and sleep problems. Wendi works with people facing career pressures, compassion fatigue, and major life changes.
Her practice emphasizes clear, practical steps alongside listening and validation. Sessions focus on problem-solving, coping skills, and rebuilding routines that feel manageable.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward tools to reduce panic, improve sleep, and ease overwhelming emotions. Wendi also supports issues tied to parenting, adoption and foster care, caregiver strain, and blended family concerns. She is experienced with people living with chronic illness, cancer, or disability and with those who have experienced disaster or traumatic loss.
She pays attention to how past abandonment or attachment wounds influence present relationships. Her methods include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts, Motivational Interviewing to strengthen change efforts, Solution-Focused Therapy to set concrete goals, and Trauma-Focused Therapy when processing painful events. These approaches shape practical, step-by-step work in sessions.
People who choose Wendi can expect collaborative goal-setting and tangible homework between meetings. She aims to help clients build routines and communication habits that make daily life easier. Wendi practices in Washington and holds the Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential (LMHC).
How evidence-based approaches translate online
Wendi commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy in her online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can ease anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Solution-Focused Therapy narrows the focus to practical goals and small steps, which helps people see progress quickly and build routines that stick.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She works together with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and daily life. That collaboration means approaches can be adjusted over time as needs or priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how care happens. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller session is needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for people who prefer writing, need quick check-ins, or want to work through thoughts between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while using CBT and solution-focused techniques effectively.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Florida
- Languages
- English
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