Wendi Makus, LPC

Wendi Makus is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who focuses on thoughts and everyday habits that get in the way of well-being. She offers straightforward help for stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and other challenges. Her style centers on understanding the whole person rather than only symptoms.

Wendi brings 13 years of experience and draws on approaches that aim to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based techniques to address patterns such as avoidance, codependency, and low self-esteem. Sessions often include looking for the roots of troubling beliefs and practicing small changes that add up over time.

She also works with concerns like compassion fatigue, addiction, sleep problems, parenting strain, career stress, and coping with big life changes. Additional focus areas include abandonment, attachment issues, blended family challenges, communication problems, and family of origin concerns. Wendi names ADHD, bipolar, and disruptive mood concerns among topics she supports through therapy-focused work.

Wendi describes a collaborative counseling process where clients talk through what matters to them and try out concrete skills between sessions. She emphasizes narrative work to reframe painful memories and to replace negative beliefs with more helpful ones. The aim is practical change people can notice in daily life.

Based in Arkansas, Wendi works in English and uses an approach that combines insight with habit-based practice. To begin, a prospective client is asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to therapist availability.

How therapy approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that matter to their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and times of transition when people want to live more in line with what matters most.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches straightforward strategies to test unhelpful thoughts and build different habits, which can help with depression, anxiety, and sleep problems.

Attachment-Based Therapy examines patterns from early relationships that show up in adult connections. It can help people who struggle with trust, abandonment fears, or recurring relationship problems to form new ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of the work and is done together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try techniques from different approaches, and choose what fits best based on needs and preferences.

Confirm the session formats before booking, since this profile does not specify them. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or remove travel time so sessions are easier to keep. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, and attachment-focused methods to remote sessions so people can practice new habits in everyday life.