About Wendy
Wendy Leonard uses a solution-focused approach to help people make concrete changes. She is a licensed mental health counselor, LMHC, based in New York with 40 years of experience. Her style is practical and goal-oriented.
She guides people to find small steps that lead to real improvement. Wendy often helps with stress and anxiety. She also supports people coping with grief and loss, low self-esteem, and career challenges.
Sessions focus on strengths and what is already working in a person’s life.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to clarify goals and plan doable next steps. She also works with concerns tied to health and life transitions. That includes chronic pain, illness, cancer, aging and geriatric issues, and traumatic brain injury.
Wendy is familiar with isolation and the search for life purpose. She helps people tackle workplace issues and problems common to young adults. Wendy centers the person’s own knowledge about their life.
She asks practical questions, listens closely, and helps set short-term goals. Sessions tend to move quickly toward solutions rather than long explorations of the past. Therapy can feel uncertain at first, and Wendy aims to make the process straightforward.
She explains options, checks in about progress, and adjusts plans as needed. Her approach is collaborative and focused on finding what helps now.
Solution-Focused Care Online and How It Helps
Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes clear goals and the small changes that make a difference. Sessions focus on your strengths and on identifying practical steps you can try between meetings. This approach often helps with anxiety, stress, grief, and life transitions by keeping conversations action-oriented and forward-looking.Wendy brings a practical, goal-driven style to online work and will help you decide which approach fits best. She collaborates with each person to set goals, review progress, and adjust plans as needed. Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be shaped by your needs, goals, and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you have a full conversation similar to an in-person visit. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or being on camera is a concern. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick problem-solving, or fitting therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and maintain momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English