About Wendy
Wendy Foote is a licensed clinician in Illinois with 18 years of experience who helps people confronting complex emotional challenges find clearer footing.
Background and approach
She welcomes clients who are ready to engage in meaningful work to address concerns such as trauma and abuse, intimacy-related struggles, depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, grief, and changes in life circumstances.
Her practice also addresses eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting and fatherhood issues, compassion fatigue, ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and a range of relational and self-focused concerns including abandonment, attachment wounds, codependency, and body image.
Wendy emphasizes an atmosphere where thoughts and feelings can be expressed without judgment, and she partners with clients to build greater emotional steadiness and practical coping skills. Her approach blends evidence-based methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), and Client-Centered Therapy to match each person’s needs.
She is straightforward about commitment to change and invites clients who are prepared to do substantive work to explore therapy together.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and focuses on clarifying values and taking meaningful action, making it useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the connections between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to develop practical skills for managing symptoms like anxiety, stress, and mood difficulties. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on understanding and reshaping emotional responses in relationships to improve connection and intimacy concerns.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Wendy works with each person to identify goals, preferences, and which methods are likely to be most helpful, adjusting strategies as progress unfolds so therapy remains aligned with the client's needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing people to access licensed professionals from wherever they are in Illinois. These options can make scheduling easier, support ongoing work between sessions, and provide multiple ways to communicate depending on comfort and circumstance.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English