Mattracea Wendleton, LPC

Mattracea Wendleton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. She welcomes conversations about issues like self-esteem, addiction, grief, parenting strain, career concerns, and jealousy. Her approach aims to make people feel heard and understood from the start.

Mattracea focuses on meeting clients where they are and listening to their needs and goals. She uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people cope with painful memories and overwhelming emotions. Sessions tend to focus on skills you can use day to day and ideas you can try between meetings.

Her clinical work draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy, among other approaches. That means she mixes problem-solving, emotion regulation skills, and a respectful, person-centered way of talking through problems. She also uses trauma-informed methods when past events are a central concern.

Therapy with Mattracea often includes setting small goals, trying new coping strategies, and reflecting on patterns that keep problems repeating. She pays attention to relationship patterns, attachment concerns, and issues like jealousy or codependency when they come up. The focus is on practical change rather than labels.

Mattracea has seven years of counseling experience and practices in Missouri. Conversations are in English and shaped around each person’s preferences and life demands. To begin, she asks people about their goals and works collaboratively to plan next steps.

Common approaches used in online sessions

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation where the therapist listens and reflects to help people make sense of their feelings. It can be helpful for relationship concerns, low self-esteem, and when someone needs a steady, accepting space to talk.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It often includes simple exercises and homework to reduce anxiety, depression, compulsions, or patterns like jealousy and rumination.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-informed method that helps people process distressing memories. It is used when past events continue to cause strong emotional or physical reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. This is a collaborative process and can change as progress is made.

For practicalities, the biography does not list specific online session formats. Confirm available session types before scheduling. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and remove travel time so sessions slide into a lunch break or between commitments.