Wendy Schultz, LCSW

Wendy Schultz is a licensed clinical social worker with eleven years of practice in Illinois. She frames therapy as part of staying well and helps people who feel stuck, uninspired, or in the middle of a life change. Wendy focuses on practical skills and strengths to help clients move toward clearer goals and a more engaged life.

Her style blends integration and skills training with a strengths-based outlook. Sessions often include creative exercises and motivational guidance to build small, usable habits. She supports people who want tools they can use between appointments to manage stress, anxiety, and day-to-day thinking patterns.

Wendy commonly works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, relationship strain, grief, anger, depression, and addiction. She also supports issues like self-esteem, career transitions, ADHD, and coping with major life changes. Her background includes helping people affected by abandonment, attachment struggles, and chronic illness challenges.

Therapeutic approaches in her work include attachment-focused and client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused work, and hypnotherapy. She creates an open, nonjudgmental setting where thoughts and feelings can be talked through and practical steps are planned.

Wendy describes therapy as an invitation to commit to personal goals. She offers challenging exercises alongside encouragement so clients can develop lasting routines and a clearer sense of purpose. Taking that first step to begin is framed as a courageous move toward positive change.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. In plain terms, the work looks at how people respond when they feel threatened, lonely, or disconnected and builds new ways of relating that feel safer and more predictable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, examines the links between thoughts, habits, and feelings. It uses small experiments and concrete techniques to change unhelpful thinking and daily routines that keep problems active.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to match methods to goals, preferences, and the practical issues they bring. That collaboration means trying techniques, checking how they feel, and shifting course when something isn’t helpful.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm which session formats are currently offered before booking. Many people find online work helps fit therapy into a busy life - it can make scheduling easier, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. For some goals, like practicing new thinking habits or using emotion-focused exercises, remote sessions can be equally useful when paired with clear homework and follow-up. Licensed professionals can guide how to make online sessions practical and effective for daily-life changes.