Wendy Goffena

Wendy Goffena is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with nine years as an LCSW and a long history in mental health care. She practices in Montana and brings many years of varied clinical experience to her work. Wendy focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and changes in life circumstances.

Wendy keeps sessions collaborative and straightforward. She centers the person seeking help and partners with them to set goals. She draws on approaches such as mindfulness practice, acceptance and commitment ideas, and client-centered listening to guide each session.

Her background includes work in community mental health, medical social work, inpatient residential treatment, correctional settings, child protective services, and day treatment programs. That array of settings shaped a practical style that values concrete skills and steady support.

In session she often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to notice links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. She also teaches mood regulation skills from dialectical behavior therapy to build distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness. EMDR is part of her toolkit for addressing some trauma-related concerns.

Wendy aims to help people find more ease in daily life. She helps parents, caregivers, and individuals facing chronic health problems, career stress, relationship strain, and transitional life stages to build coping skills and clearer direction.

How Mindful and Action-Based Work Translates Online

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices and grounding exercises that help reduce reactivity and improve presence. It is useful for worry, stress, sleep problems, and managing strong emotions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful actions even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up; it helps with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences in early sessions and together decide which tools to try. That collaborative process lets the client test mindfulness practices, behavioral experiments from CBT, or emotion regulation skills from DBT and see what fits.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let a therapist guide a mindfulness practice or teach breathing and grounding exercises while you are at home, and it supports doing homework between sessions so skills can grow over time.