About Wendi
Wendi Makus is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship challenges. Her style is approachable and direct, aimed at helping clients make real changes that improve daily life.
Wendi views each person as more than a list of symptoms. She uses whole-person methods and trauma-informed ideas to uncover what gets in the way of feeling better.
Background and approach
Sessions often combine goal-focused strategies with attention to emotions and attachment patterns. She draws from several evidence-informed approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based methods. That mix allows for skill building, values-based goals, and attention to how early relationships shape current struggles.
Wendi also incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy and client-centered techniques when helpful. With 13 years of experience as an LPC in Arkansas, she has worked with people facing grief, addiction, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood concerns, sleep problems, and complex family-of-origin issues. She also supports those coping with major life changes, career stress, or identity questions.
Wendi’s sessions tend to be collaborative and practical. She helps clients identify small steps, practice new skills, and reframe unhelpful thoughts. Conversations are straightforward and focused on concrete tools for everyday life.
People who choose her often want a blend of skill training and deeper work on attachment, boundaries, and self-worth. She invites questions about goals and next steps, and she works with each person to develop a clear plan for change.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people choose actions that match their values while learning to live with difficult thoughts. It focuses on small, values-driven steps and is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change thinking patterns and behaviors that cause distress. It often includes homework and skill practice, which adapts well to video or text-based formats.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and self-worth. It can help people improve communication, build healthier expectations, and work through trust and abandonment concerns.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Wendi collaborates with clients to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She tailors plans together with each person rather than using one fixed method.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes regular care easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls let therapists and clients work face to face; phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited; live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options help people stay consistent with skill practice and follow-through while accommodating different schedules and comfort levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas, Oregon, Maine, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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