About Wendi
Wendi Cancilla is a licensed mental health counselor with 24 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, parenting strain, addictions, and sleep problems. Wendi focuses on practical ways to cope so daily life feels more manageable.
She uses clear, goal-oriented methods in sessions. That often means talking through current problems, trying small behavior changes, and building skills to handle hard feelings. Wendi pays attention to how family patterns and past losses shape present struggles.
Background and approach
Clients may work on anger, low self-esteem, career stress, compassion fatigue, or challenges tied to ADHD. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and the emotional impact of cancer. Trauma and dissociation are addressed with care and step-by-step pacing.
Wendi draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, solution-focused techniques, and trauma-focused work to tailor sessions to each person. Her style is compassionate and direct, with an emphasis on practical tools clients can use between meetings. Based in Washington, she brings long-term experience to everyday struggles.
Wendi aims to help people recognize patterns, try new ways of coping, and move toward clearer goals. Sessions are offered in English and adapted to the issues a person brings.
Approaches that translate to online sessions
Wendi commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma-focused therapy in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or depression. Trauma-focused therapy breaks down difficult memories and reactions into manageable steps so people can regain control over daily functioning.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with a person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. Plans are adjusted over time based on what works and what the person wants to focus on.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make engagement more flexible. Video calls let participants use visual cues and a more traditional conversation. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be simpler to fit into a busy day. Live chat and messaging provide brief check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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