LPC
Wendi Makus, LPC
- Experience13 years
- LocationArkansas
- Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Relationship
- Therapy approachesAcceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based Therapy
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About Wendi
Wendi Makus is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who draws on a person-centered, trauma-informed framework to support meaningful change. She frames counseling around the whole person rather than just symptoms, integrating practical strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside attachment-focused work.
Background and approach
This blended approach helps clients address stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, grief, compassion fatigue, addictive patterns, and ADHD-related concerns in ways that fit their lives. With 13 years of clinical experience in Arkansas, Wendi uses solution-focused techniques and narrative methods to help people reshape stories that no longer serve them.
She also works with complex grief, family and communication problems, self-esteem and identity challenges, and mood concerns including bipolar presentations. Her background includes trauma-informed tools such as EMDR and a strengths-oriented method called seed digging therapy, which explores core beliefs and cultivates more adaptive, hopeful perspectives.
Wendi emphasizes collaboration and practical steps toward clients' goals, offering a supportive space to explore coping with life changes, career stressors, parenting questions, and broader emotional healing. She invites prospective clients to discuss goals and consider which therapeutic methods might best support lasting improvements in wellbeing.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Wendi commonly integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based Therapy in her work. ACT focuses on clarifying values and learning practical skills to live in alignment with those values despite difficult thoughts and emotions, which can help with anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy explores relational patterns and early bonding experiences to improve current relationships and emotional regulation, which is useful for communication problems, abandonment issues, and intimacy concerns.Choosing a therapeutic approach is collaborative; she works with each person to identify which methods best match their goals, symptoms, and preferences. Clients and therapist evaluate what feels most helpful and adjust strategies over time, blending techniques such as CBT or DBT skills when those fit treatment goals.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for accessing this work through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit consistent care into busy schedules, allow clients to use therapeutic tools in real-life contexts, and support continuity of care when in-person options are limited. Licensed professionals can adapt the evidence-based approaches above to these digital formats to maintain progress toward therapy goals.
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Experience
13+ years
Licensed
Arkansas, Oregon, Maine, District of Columbia
Languages
English
What Wendi can help with
Wendi Makus works with clients on stress and anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, depression, and compassion fatigue.
How Wendi approaches therapy
Wendi's clinical approaches include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Mindfulness Therapy.
Wendi has been trained in trauma informed approaches such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Experience and training
Wendi is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Arkansas, with 13 years of clinical experience.