About Wanda
Wanda Jensen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with four years of practice in Montana. She aims to bring empathy, respect, and straightforward support to people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, and other life challenges. Wanda emphasizes practical steps and steady progress in sessions.
She grew up in a small Montana town where family and community shaped how she sees wellness. That background informs a familiar, down-to-earth style that focuses on everyday strengths.
Background and approach
People meet her for help with relationship struggles, parenting concerns, low self-esteem, and coping with big life changes. Wanda uses a systems perspective to understand how family, friends, work, and environment affect behavior. She combines that with applied behavioral analysis ideas to identify what keeps habits going and how to build healthier routines.
Sessions often focus on small, measurable changes that add up over time. <brHer approach also draws on several therapeutic methods including cognitive behavioral strategies, acceptance-based ideas, attachment-focused work, and skills from dialectical behavior approaches. Those tools are used to address mood disorders, grief, anger, and compassion fatigue in practical ways.
People who have experienced trauma may find EMDR relevant to their healing, and Wanda includes trauma-focused methods among her resources. She encourages a collaborative path forward, helping people notice strengths and take steady steps toward clearer goals.
Approaches that guide online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, stress, and motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connection between thoughts, behaviors, and mood, and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns that fuel depression or anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early and current relationships affect feelings and behavior, and works to build more supported ways of relating for people struggling with trust, abandonment, or relationship stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Wanda treats the choice of methods as a collaboration and will adapt strategies to match a person's goals, needs, and preferences. She helps people try techniques, notice what helps, and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth sessions and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat or messaging can help with quick skills practice, reflective notes, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and allow people to fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
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