Wendi Makus

Wendi Makus is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who centers work on the whole person rather than just symptoms. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, addiction concerns, and the many shifts that come with life changes. Wendi aims to create a clear path toward improved day-to-day functioning and better overall well-being.

Her counseling style blends practical, person-centered care with evidence-informed methods. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new ways of responding. Attachment-Based Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) elements also appear in her work when addressing relationship struggles, emotion regulation, and compassion fatigue.

Wendi has 13 years of experience as an LPC practicing in Arkansas. She describes her approach as holistic and trauma-aware, and she helps people look back to understand how past events shape present beliefs and behaviors. This includes attention to attachment issues, abandonment, dissociation, and other trauma-related themes.

She also uses narrative-style techniques that help people revisit core negative beliefs and consider alternative, healthier meanings. That kind of exploration can help with low self-esteem, communication problems, and persistent feelings of emptiness.

Practical concerns such as parenting stress, sleep troubles, career strain, and coping with chronic illness or cancer are within her focus areas. To begin, prospective clients use the site's Start Therapy button to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.

Therapeutic approaches and how they fit into online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and focus on what matters most to them. It teaches simple exercises to accept inner experiences and take committed steps toward personal values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns into workable parts and offers straightforward strategies to change them over time. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship experiences shape current connections and helps people build different, healthier ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past experiences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as work proceeds so it fits the person's needs and pace.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, since this profile does not list specific options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time and letting people check in during lunch breaks or between appointments. It can also allow for different types of sessions like shorter check-ins or sessions without video when bandwidth is limited. Discussing these practical preferences during the first scheduling step helps shape a plan that works for everyday routines.