About Wendy
Wendy Gilchrist brings two decades of clinical experience and a background in nonprofit leadership to her work as a licensed clinical professional counselor. Wendy earned her LCPC and built programs focused on supporting vulnerable populations before transitioning into direct therapeutic practice.
Background and approach
Her career includes work in psychiatric hospital units and trauma-informed programs, providing care across individual, family, and group settings. Wendy blends practical, evidence-informed methods with a respectful, client-centered stance.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, narrative approaches, and psychodynamic ideas to address concerns such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, grief, anger, and compassion fatigue. Her practice also supports people managing parenting and family challenges, ADHD, chronic illness and pain, body image, and life transitions.
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and are accessible to international clients. Wendy aims to help clients clarify goals, build coping skills, and explore meaningful shifts in relationships and self-understanding.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Wendy often integrates client-centered therapy, which emphasizes empathy and collaboration to help clients feel heard and to identify their own goals, and cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on recognizing patterns of thought and behavior and developing practical skills to manage symptoms and everyday challenges. Mindfulness techniques are also used to build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity, which can be especially helpful for anxiety, stress, and emotion regulation.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Wendy works with clients to explore preferences, goals, and what feels most useful in session, adjusting methods over time so therapy matches evolving needs and priorities.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit care into busy schedules or to connect from different locations. These formats support continuity of care and allow licensed professionals to provide consistent guidance, skill-building, and reflective work in ways that suit each client's life and comfort.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish