Wendy — Wendy Frankle M.A., LPC

Welcome.

My name is Wendy. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) & Certified Grief Recovery Specialist. My speciality and passion is working with adolescent girls and their families as well as teaching Grief Recovery. I have 22 years of experience in private practice as well as other clinical settings, working individually with children of any gender ages 6-18, adults, families, and couples. Children and young adults have various life stressors such as: anxiety, ADHD/ADD, depression, self-worth, relationship issues, family stress, parent-child relationship problems, sexual and gender identity, disordered eating, self injurious behavior and suicidal ideation. Often both the child/young adult AND the parents find themselves without the necessary coping skills to navigate through these issues on their own. Exhaustion and frustration turns into more unwanted dysfunction, creating more feelings of low self-worth in both the child and the parents. This leads to more broken relationships and so the cycle continues. In my office I strive to provide a safe, nurturing environment where we can work together to plant the seeds necessary for your health, hope and happiness by healing the pain caused by these life stressors.

Education & Affiliations

MA in Counseling Psychology
Licensed Professional Counselor
Certified Grief Recovery Specialist
Member of American Counseling Association
Photos by Kendra Frankle

Struggle.

A man found a cocoon of the emperor moth and took it home to watch it emerge. One day a small opening appeared, and for several hours the moth struggled but couldn't seem to force it's body past a certain point. Deciding something was wrong, the man took scissors and snipped the remaining bit of cocoon. The moth emerged easily, its body large and swollen, the wings small and shriveled. He expected that in a few hours the wings would spread out in their natural beauty, but they did not. Instead of developing into a creature free to fly, the moth spent its life dragging around a swollen body and shriveled wings. The constricting cocoon and the struggle necessary to pass through the tiny opening are nature's way of forcing fluid from the body into the wings. The "merciful" snip was, in reality cruel. Sometimes the struggle is exactly what we need.