Wendy Schultz, LCSW

Wendy Schultz is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Illinois with 11 years of experience. She sees therapy as part of maintaining good health and invites people to make a meaningful commitment to their well-being. Many who seek her help arrive feeling stuck, uninspired, or facing major life changes and she meets them with both encouragement and practical work.

Her style emphasizes building on strengths and teaching easy-to-use skills. She blends integration and skills training with creative exercises to help people try new ways of coping. Sessions can include motivational work and hands-on tasks to test what actually helps between meetings.

Wendy helps people address stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, anger, addictions, and issues around intimacy and relationships. She also supports those dealing with career questions, grief, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and parenting or family-related concerns. Additional focuses include abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, attachment issues, chronic pain or illness, and first responder stress.

Her clinical approach draws from attachment-based work, client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused therapy, and hypnotherapy. In practice she uses these approaches to help people clarify goals, change unhelpful patterns, and strengthen emotional connection to themselves and others.

Beginning therapy with Wendy involves a practical matching step and scheduling. She encourages small, manageable changes and offers steady motivation while people learn tools to create more fulfillment over time.

How her approaches translate to online work

Wendy uses attachment-based work to help people notice patterns in how they relate to others and to build more secure emotional connections. This approach can help with relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, and attachment wounds.

She also uses client-centered methods that keep the person's goals in focus. Those sessions emphasize listening, validation, and helping someone find their own solutions to stress, depression, and career or life changes.

Cognitive behavioral techniques are another common tool in her practice. These methods focus on noticing unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to change mood and functioning, which can be useful for anxiety, anger, and addictive patterns.

Choosing the right approach is part of working together. Wendy will discuss different methods and tailor work based on a person's goals, preferences, and what helps in early sessions. She views this as a collaborative process where small experiments guide decisions.

If you are considering online work, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Ask about the available session types when you schedule to match the format to your everyday routine.