Wendi Makus, LPC

Wendi Makus is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who centers her work on the whole person rather than just symptoms. She offers a calm, practical approach for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and life changes. Wendi draws on several therapies to help clients build clearer thinking and more effective day-to-day skills.

Wendi blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive and emotion-focused techniques to help clients notice what matters and take steps toward it. She also uses attachment-informed thinking to map how early relationships shape current patterns. In sessions she focuses on concrete strategies for coping, communication, and mood regulation.

Clients often bring concerns like depression, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, addictions, or struggles with parenting and career choices. Wendi also supports people coping with medical issues such as cancer, attention differences like ADHD, and complicated family of origin problems. She helps people work through abandonment, codependency, dissociation, and other patterns that affect daily life.

Her style is practical and narrative oriented - helping people identify the beliefs that drive emotions and then try new ways of responding. Wendi uses short exercises, skills practice, and story work to help clients rewrite unhelpful patterns into more useful ones. She aims to help clients move toward clearer values and steadier functioning.

Wendi practices in Arkansas and brings 13 years of counseling experience to her work. She conducts sessions in English and asks prospective clients to complete a brief matching questionnaire to begin the intake process.

How Wendi’s approaches translate to online therapy

Wendi uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in ways that fit remote work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what truly matters and take small, values-driven steps while learning to accept difficult feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and helps people try new ways of relating and communicating in close relationships.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Wendi will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs and then try approaches that match those priorities. Together they set small, practical steps and check progress over time rather than assuming a single method from the start.

Session logistics should be confirmed before booking because the biography does not list specific online formats. Many people find online work helpful for fitting therapy into busy schedules, shortening commute time, or allowing flexible check-ins around work or caregiving. Ask about the available session options when you schedule so you can pick what best fits your routine and needs.