LMFT, 15 years of experience
Hi, I'm Wendy Mark, LMFT, your Chronic Pain Therapist in Los Angeles, California. Are you feeling stuck in chronic pain and doctors have told you there isn’t anything more they can do? Have your activities decreased so much that you are no longer doing the things that you used to enjoy? Whether you have been dealing with pain for 6 months or 50 years, we can work together to help you decrease your pain levels and get you back to living a life filled with joy in a reasonably short amount of time. In my own journey through pain, I tried every treatment possible to get rid of the pain and I was desperate to find a treatment that worked. I was lost. Then I discovered Pain Reprocessing Therapy, and it was a total game changer for me! While my passion is working with clients with chronic pain, I have also had over 15 years of success in working with a wide range of mental health issues including ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, relationship issues, school problems, trauma and PTSD, and women's issues. I enjoy empowering clients to reach their full potential.
In our first session, I will gather more information about you to get a better understanding of what you are struggling with and what you are hoping to gain from therapy. This is also a process of getting to know one another and to determine whether we would be a good fit to work with each other. It is my hope that you will feel comfortable in talking about difficult topics and that you will feel heard and understood. Then we will talk about what we can do to help you to feel better.
Working with clients suffering from chronic pain has been my passion and my biggest strengths. It gives me great joy and pleasure to see clients get back into living the life they enjoy and doing the activities that they love.
chronic pain, fibromyalgia, migraines, back pain (including people with irregular MRI results), IBS/Chronic Gastrointestinal issues, degenerative disc disease, spondylolisthesis, pain from an old injury, and more), shoulder pain, neck pain, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME, Sciatica, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Tension Headaches, Lingering post-surgical pain, Long COVID symptoms, Any other symptom lasting 6 months with no obvious signs of tissue damage, depression, anxiety, ADHD, and social anxiety
I have used CBT in my practice of 15 years to help reframe client's understanding of pain and help them break out of the pain fear cycle and get back to doing what they enjoy doing in life.
I use Pain Reprocessing Therapy in my practice to help clients find ways to conquer their pain, whether it is neuroplastic pain and/or emotional pain. Clients will learn what to do when they have pain and use somatic tracking to help build new neuropathways and to dial down the intensity of their pain over time and maintain the gains up to a year later in studies!
I have used EMDR to help clients process the traumas and other anxieties (such as social, test taking, performance and other phobias) to help them get unstuck and able to move forward in their lives to meet their full potential.
4 ratings with written reviews
July 8, 2025
Wendy is great! After a long search for a therapist who is a good “fit” I’m thrilled to have found her. I would strongly recommend Wendy for both chronically ill patients and female identified patients looking to analyze their experiences through a modern lens. Wendy is bright and funny who brings a direct and authentic approach to her work.
May 13, 2025
Wendy has been great at helping me through my depression and grief. She is straightforward in a respectful way. She is open-minded and non-judgmental, and provides good feedback to me with helpful tools and skills I can utilize to deal with my problems. Wendy is also very empowering and helps me feel "lighter" or a sense of relief after our sessions, along with feeling more optimistic about my future.
April 17, 2025
She gets me. She listens and understands what I'm feeling. She teaches me techniques in how to deal with my anxiety and worries. I feel good about myself after our meeting time