Wendy C. Wikstrom
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC

Helping restore balance during life’s challenges.

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Welcome to Clarity!

I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with a Master’s earned with distinction and over 1,000 internship hours. After agency work, I returned to entrepreneurship to create Clarity, PLLC, continuing supervision toward my LCPC license.

I work with clients ages 15–100+, including families, focusing on multicultural counseling and life transitions. I explore how culture, heritage, socioeconomic factors, gender, and life changes influence your well-being, helping you adapt and build resilience.

My approach is humanistic and person-centered, seeing you as the expert in your own life, while using solution-focused strategies to overcome obstacles. Clients come for support with diagnoses, life challenges, clarity, or preventive wellness, and together we find the path forward.

My Philosophies

Strength Based Approach

When a client’s strengths are identified and nurtured, unhealthy thoughts and behaviors come into better focus. Growth and wellness become more sustainable once we learn how to reduce the noise…the excess, the judgments…the confusion. Only then can we be unbiased and make sense of the internal and external factors that influence an individual’s authentic self.

BioPsychoSocial Model

Humans are multifaceted with biological, psychological and socio-environmental factors that intersect…sometimes in a nonsensical pattern. When the Biopsychosocial model is weaved into counseling the client’s goals are more attainable – and – sustainable!
Additionally, I urge my clients to manage their medical responsibilities because there is often a major overlap in physical and emotional symptoms.

Wheel of Wellness

The Wheel of Wellness is a common tool learned early in psychology and I appreciate it because it complements the BioPsychoSocial model. Together, these two approaches look at the whole individual and how the person functions in their environment. It looks at events, schedules, emotions, and habits that exist in different areas of our present day lives. It helps the counselor/ client partnership evaluate how all of a person’s variables intersect, overlap or contradict.

Mindful of the Present

I believe in visiting a client’s past traumas if and when it is relevant to the client’s goals; and to navigate the issue when the client is ready, when applicable.

Mindfulness

I have experience in leading and co-leading DBT groups known as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. While I am not yet certified as a DBT therapist, my experiences have taught me how to utilize mindfulness in therapeutic applications.

ESCAPE IN A COZY OFFICE!

My office is a comfortable and safe environment. There is only one rule: Just be YOU.

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