Wendy Salazar, LPC
Calm, practical counseling for life’s hard moments
Details
| Name | Wendy Salazar |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LPC |
| Based in | Texas |
| Licensed in | Texas |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Years in practice | 20 |
About Wendy
Wendy Salazar is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. She speaks English and Spanish and brings two decades of experience to each session. Her work is practical and collaborative, with attention to everyday family and relationship concerns as well as individual struggles like sleep, eating, and self-esteem.
Wendy blends narrative ideas with client-centered and cognitive behavioral techniques. She listens for the stories people tell about themselves and helps rewrite unhelpful patterns into more helpful ones.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals, small changes that add up, and skills people can use between meetings. Her background includes long experience supporting people with trauma and abuse, parenting stress, ADHD, mood disorders, and the pressures of caregiving or first responder roles. She draws on mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help clients notice patterns and find motivation to change.
In sessions she emphasizes collaboration - clients are the experts on their lives and she offers tools and reflections to expand options. She also pays attention to how stress shows up in the body and behavior, and uses that to guide practical supports.
Wendy works with people navigating relationship hurts, abandonment or attachment concerns, blended family transitions, immigration-related stress, and the fallout from infidelity or separation. Her approach is steady and goal-oriented, aimed at helping people regain balance and clearer direction.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Family conflicts, Parenting issues among the things Wendy works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Wendy among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): 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.
- Psychodynamic Therapy: Listed by Wendy among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Wendy among the ways she works.
- Trauma-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
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Wendy often blends Narrative Therapy with Client-Centered work. Narrative Therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and the world, then helps separate problems from identity so new, more useful narratives can emerge. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, respect, and helping clients find their own answers at their own pace.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a skills-based approach that identifies unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replaces them with more adaptive options. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep or eating problems, and day-to-day stressors. Wendy frames the choice of approach as a team effort and will collaborate with each person to find what fits their goals and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is close to an in-person meeting and works well for longer sessions and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging let people send thoughts between sessions or manage brief check-ins without scheduling a full call. These options support flexibility so people can fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other commitments.
Common questions about this listing
What kinds of concerns does Wendy address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting and family stress, relationship problems, eating and sleeping issues, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and related challenges such as guilt, shame, abandonment, and infidelity.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Wendy uses a collaborative, client-centered style. She combines narrative approaches with cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to set goals and build practical skills.
How much experience does she have?
She has twenty years working in mental health, offering long-term clinical experience with trauma, mood disorders, parenting support, and integrated behavioral care.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas and also serves as a licensed supervisor for incoming clinicians.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Are online or remote sessions available?
Wendy offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different schedules and communication preferences.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps should I follow to begin therapy?
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