Wendy Goffena, LCSW

Wendy Goffena is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with nine years as a practicing clinician and a total of 24 years in mental health work. She practices in Montana and provides therapy for adults who are dealing with common mental health concerns, trauma, grief, anger, and relationship challenges.

She has worked across many settings including community mental health, inpatient residential treatment for youth, medical social work with patients facing advanced illness, correctional settings, child protective services, and outpatient day programs. That range informs how she talks with people and structures sessions. Her clients have included adults from 18 to 90, military veterans, court-involved individuals, and people living with serious mental illness.

Wendy describes a client-centered approach. She treats clients as the experts on their lives and collaborates to set the pace and goals of therapy. She combines strengths-based work and motivational interviewing to help people notice what is working and plan practical steps forward.

Clinically she uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to look at links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. She draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills to build mood regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma processing when appropriate.

Her practical focus includes stress, anxiety, depression, anger, parenting concerns, sleep problems, career strain, and complicated grief. People choose her when they want straightforward, skill-based work and help managing emotions and relationships.

How her approaches translate to online work