Wendy Svatora

Therapist

License: LMSW, ACSW, CCM

Pronouns: she/her

Ages Served: 14-100+

Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan

Appointments: In-office and Telehealth

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Welcome! If you're feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or stressed navigating life’s challenges—whether it’s obsessive overthinking, struggles with body image or eating, challenges with executive function, or burnout from life transitions—you’re not alone. Therapy can be an empowering decision to invest in yourself and a powerful step toward healing with lasting change. I provide a supportive, non-judgmental space where you are heard, understood, and respected while building practical tools to manage life more effectively.

I specialize in working with individuals from diverse backgrounds on a wide range of issues—including obsessions and compulsions, body image and eating struggles, attention-deficit and neurodivergence, trauma, mood dysregulation, life transition, anxiety, depression, aging and chronic pain, addiction, grief and more.

I encourage clients to be empowered to be their authentic self in sessions, which includes communicating openly about their needs and preferences, but also we can laugh, cry, move, create, sing, express ourselves. Thank you for choosing to work with me, and I look forward to meeting you soon!

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Expertise and Specialties:

Expertise:

• OCD

• Exposure and Response Prevention

• Disordered Eating & Body Image

• ADHD & Executive Functioning (including ASD)

• Anxiety, Depression, & Mood Disorders

• Chronic Pain & Illness

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

• Older Adults

• Trauma-Informed Therapy

Specialties:

• ADHD and Executive Functioning

• Anxiety

• Autism Spectrum

• Chronic Pain and Illness

• Coping Skills

• Depression

• Disordered Eating & Body Image

• Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

• Grief and Loss

• LGBTQIA+

• Life Transitions

• Mood Disorders

• OCD

• Personality Disorders

• Relationships

• Self-esteem

• Self-harming

• Spirituality

• Sleep Issues & Insomnia

• Stress & Burnout

• Substance Use

• Survivors of Narcissistic Abuse

• Trauma

• Women’s Health (including Perinatal & Postpartum Mood Disorders)

Integrative Modalities:

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

• Creative Expression

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

• Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

• Internal Family Systems (IFS)

• Meditation

• Mindfulness

• Somatic Therapy

• Trauma-Informed Care

Populations:

• Adults

• Teens (14+)

• Educators

• Entrepreneurs/C-Suite

• First Responders

• Healthcare Workers

• LGBTQIA+

Rates and Insurances Accepted:

• $170/55 minute individual session

• Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan PPO (BCBSM PPO)

• Blue Care Network (BCN)

Get to know Wendy…

• Where did you study?

  BA Sociology and Social Work
  Saginaw Valley State University

  Master of Social Work
  University of Michigan

• If you weren't a mental health professional, what would you be doing?

  Skydiving instructor or helicopter pilot

• What is your favorite place?

  Smack dab in the middle of quiet nature

• What is your go-to "feel good" song?

  “Walking on Sunshine” - Katrina and the Waves

• Favorite quote?

  “Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.” - CS Lewis

• If you could make a rule for a day and everyone had to follow it, what would it be?

  Honor your body with movement, then your mind with meditative silence.

• Do you collect anything?

  Tigger memorabilia