Wendi Makus, LPC

Wendi Makus is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Arkansas with 13 years of clinical experience. She guides adults through stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, depression, addiction concerns, codependency, and parenting strain. Wendi also addresses grief, sleep problems, ADHD, career questions, and issues around attachment and abandonment.

Her work focuses on helping people notice how past events shape current patterns. She uses conversational, client-centered methods that let people tell their story and name what matters to them. Sessions look at thoughts, behaviors, and the relational patterns that keep someone stuck in people-pleasing or over-responsibility.

Wendi draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She aims to help people build practical skills for regulation, clearer communication, and steadier boundaries. This includes hands-on strategies for coping with intense emotions and reducing impulsive reactions.

She offers a model called seed digging therapy that focuses on finding the roots of negative beliefs and creating new, healthier beliefs. That work often uses narrative techniques to rewrite meaning around painful events and shift long-held self-narratives.

Wendi asks people to be honest about their goals so sessions can focus on concrete change steps. To start, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session are used to set up the initial meeting.

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