Licensed to practice in Illinois and accepts 45 insurances. Specializes in Anxiety, Couples Counseling, Serious Mental Illness and 10 more.
Wendy Gilchrist
About me
I am Wendy Gilchrist, clinical professional counselor. I have 25 + years of experience working with people with severe symptoms or mental illness. If you're experiencing anxiety, stress, changing careers, navigating a difficult relationship, feeling down or lack or motivation, dealing with grief and loss. It is time to dive in and process all those uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. Together, we will be able to process them, put them in a safe place and find some ways to cope with them by learning to accept that you are the only one that can make the first step to change your difficult and unpleasant situation. Even at some point you feel hopeless, you have the potential to make a difference in your life.
Get to know me
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
In the first session we will get to know each other. I will explain to you how my practice and sessions work. What can you expect from therapy. You will be able to explore your needs and we will be able to set some short and long term therapeutic goals.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I am compassionate, experienced, good listener and empathetic therapist, which will be able to understand where are you coming from and provide a safe space for you to continue your healing journey.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I am fully committed to understand where you are in life without judgement, what are you struggling with and where do you want to be at. Together we are going to process those uncomfortable struggles, thoughts and feelings. We will learn some skills and tools to process, accept and overcome them.
Specialties
Top specialties
Anxiety
Couples Counseling
Serious Mental Illness
Other specialties
Anger Management
Autism
Bipolar Disorder
Depression
Family Therapy
Grief
Life Transitions
Mood Disorders
Parenting
Self Esteem
Identifies as
Woman
Serves ages
Adults (18 to 64)
Elders (65 and above)
Licensed in
Illinois
Accepts
Aetna
Aetna - ASR Health Benefits
Aetna - Allied Benefits
Aetna - Luminare
Aetna - Medicare
Aetna - Moda
Aetna - WebTPA
Aetna – HealthEZ
All Savers
Amerihealth Administrators
Amerihealth NJ Medicare Advantage
Arlo
AvMed
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Anthem
Independence Blue Cross
Independence Administrators
Cash - $200 per session
Centivo
Cigna
Cigna - HealthEZ
EAP:Cigna
EAP:Evernorth
EAP:UnitedHealthcare/Optum
Evernorth
GTEB
Golden Rule
Harvard Pilgrim/UnitedHealthcare
Humana - Medicare
Humana Dual (Medicare & Medicaid)
UnitedHealthcare/Optum
Optum
OptumHealth Complex Medical Conditions
Oscar
Oxford
Surest (formerly Bind)
Tufts Health/Cigna
UMR - Advocate Aurora Health
United Medical Resources
UnitedHealthcare Dual (Medicare & Medicaid)
UnitedHealthcare Life Insurance
UnitedHealthcare Shared Services
UnitedHealthcare StudentResources
UnitedHealthcare/Optum - Medicare
UnitedHealthcare Complete Care (C-SNP)
Location
Virtual
My treatment methods
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
Acceptance and commitment therapy is a form of psychotherapy, as well as a branch of clinical behavior analysis. It is an empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies along with commitment and behavior-change strategies to increase psychological flexibility.
4 ratings with written reviews
April 16, 2026
I really enjoyed the directness and authenticity of Wendy during our session. She makes problems very relatable and gives a person ability to open up to have an honest conversation.
Verified client, age 35-44
March 1, 2026
Very easy to talk to. Listens to both sides and has unique exercises to communicate with.
Verified client, age 25-34
January 22, 2026
I really like our connection, and I feel heard.