Wendy Weston, LPC
Calm, practical counseling for real-life struggles
Details
| Name | Wendy Weston |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LPC |
| Based in | Idaho |
| Licensed in | Idaho |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 8 |
About Wendy
Wendy Weston is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Idaho with eight years of counseling experience. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, depression, and relationship and intimacy concerns. Wendy aims to create a warm, straightforward space where clients can talk through hard problems and take practical steps forward.
Before focusing on addictions, she gained years of experience in first response and child welfare settings. That background shaped her approach to crisis, caregiving stress, and trauma-related concerns.
Background and approach
She brings steady attention to issues like caregiver strain, adoption and foster care challenges, and the complex effects of grief and loss. Wendy uses Narrative-informed ideas alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people reframe stories they tell about themselves. She also draws on client-centered listening and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to build coping strategies and emotional regulation.
Sessions typically involve exploring thoughts and feelings and practicing new ways to respond. People often come to her for help with sleeping and eating concerns, ADHD, anger, self-esteem, career stress, and substance use. She also supports those facing chronic health challenges, body image struggles, codependency, and recovery from domestic violence or other abuse.
Wendy works with clients by partnering on doable goals and steps. She keeps language plain, offers concrete tools, and helps people test small changes between sessions. The focus is on growth that fits each person’s life and needs.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, LGBT among the things Wendy works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Listed by Wendy among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Wendy among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Wendy among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Wendy among the ways she works.
- Existential Therapy: Listed by Wendy among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Wendy among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Wendy among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Wendy among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Wendy directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Wendy directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How Narrative Ideas and Skill-Based Therapies Work Online
Wendy blends Narrative ideas with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Narrative work looks at the stories people tell about themselves and spots alternate ways to view difficult events. It can help untangle identity, shame, and life transitions. ACT focuses on values and taking meaningful action even when hard feelings remain, which works well for anxiety, depression, and coping with change. CBT helps identify thinking patterns that lead to unhelpful moods and teaches concrete skills to change those patterns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs. Together you will test ideas, notice what helps, and adapt the plan over time so it matches your life and preferences.
Online sessions offer flexibility and practical choices. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break, and live chat or text-based messaging enable short check-ins or more frequent support without scheduling a full session. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel while still working on real change.
Common questions about this listing
What kinds of concerns can Wendy help with?
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship or intimacy issues. She also works with parenting, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, career stress, and caregiver strain.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is client-centered and compassionate with a practical focus. Sessions combine listening, narrative work, skill building, and action steps to try between appointments.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has eight years of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor and prior experience in first response and child welfare settings that inform her work.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She practices in Idaho and holds the LPC credential. Sessions are provided from that location.
Can I work with her if I live outside the United States?
Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats does she offer?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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