Wendi Moore

MC, BA, CCC-Q

Trauma, ADHD, OCD & Nervous System Regulation in Kelowna, BC

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Helping adults understand the patterns beneath anxiety, trauma, grief, emotional overwhelm, and neurodivergence—so healing can begin to make sense.

How Wendi Works

Therapy isn’t about fixing you. It’s about understanding you.

Many people come to therapy already knowing a great deal about themselves. They may understand what happened in their lives, recognize their patterns, and still feel unable to change how they react, relate, or cope.

That is because understanding your story and understanding your nervous system are not always the same thing.

Wendi works collaboratively with you to explore how your experiences, emotions, body, relationships, and protective patterns connect. Together, you begin making sense of what is happening beneath the surface while developing practical tools that support greater regulation, self-understanding, and lasting change.

You May Recognize Yourself Here

You may find yourself:

  • overthinking almost everything

  • constantly second-guessing yourself

  • feeling exhausted from holding everything together

  • unable to fully relax, even when things are going well

  • struggling to identify or express what you are feeling

  • feeling emotionally numb or disconnected at times

  • caught in intrusive thoughts that leave you questioning yourself

  • understanding why something affects you, but still feeling unable to change it

  • feeling as though your brain is always “on”

  • wondering why therapy has helped you understand more, but something still feels unresolved

Areas I Often Work With:

  • Trauma

  • ADHD

  • OCD

  • Anxiety

  • Grief and loss

  • Emotional overwhelm

  • Burnout and compassion fatigue

  • Life transitions

  • Healthcare professionals & caregivers

What Sessions May Include:

  • Understanding nervous-system responses

  • Practical emotional-regulation skills

  • Trauma processing with EMDR, when appropriate

  • Exploring protective parts with curiosity

  • ADHD- and OCD-informed strategies

  • Somatic awareness and grounding

  • Exercises to use between sessions

  • Collaboratively making sense of patterns so therapy has a clear direction

Therapeutic Approaches:

  • EMDR

  • Polyvagal-informed therapy

  • Somatic therapy

  • IFS-informed and parts-informed work

  • CBT

  • DBT

  • ACT

  • Narrative and compassion-focused therapy

No single approach works for everyone. Together, you and Wendi tailor therapy to your needs, goals, and nervous system.

What It’s Like to Work With Wendi

Wendi brings curiosity, compassion, and clear direction to the therapy process.

She works collaboratively, helping you understand how your experiences, emotions, nervous system, relationships, and protective patterns fit together. Rather than viewing you as “broken,” she helps you recognize how many of your current struggles may have developed as ways of adapting to difficult experiences.

As those patterns begin to make sense, there is often more room for self-compassion, choice, and meaningful change.

Wendi’s approach is thoughtful and practical. Sessions may include both deeper exploration and concrete tools you can use in everyday life, so therapy feels connected to what you are actually navigating outside the therapy room.

Training & Background

Wendi holds a Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Her training includes EMDR, polyvagal-informed therapy, trauma-informed practice, somatic therapy, and Internal Family Systems–informed work. She also draws from CBT, DBT, ACT, narrative therapy, and compassion-focused therapy.

Canadian Certified Counsellor – Qualifying (CCC-Q)

  • Master of Counselling

  • Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

  • EMDR Basic Training

  • Polyvagal-Informed Therapy

  • Trauma-Informed Practice

  • Somatic Therapy

  • Internal Family Systems–Informed Practice

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

  • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

  • Narrative Therapy

  • Compassion-Focused Therapy

  • Solution-Focused Therapy

Education & Professional Training

Extended Play…

A little more about Wendi and the lens she brings to her work.

  • You do not need to have everything figured out before starting therapy. You may not know whether what you are experiencing is connected to trauma, anxiety, ADHD, OCD, grief, or something else entirely. We can begin by making sense of what has been happening and developing a treatment plan that fits you.

  • Many people come to therapy with a strong understanding of their story. They may know what happened, recognize their patterns, and still find that certain reactions or emotions do not seem to change. Understanding your story and understanding your nervous system are not always the same thing. Our work can explore how your experiences, emotions, body, relationships, and protective patterns connect.

  • Wendi often works with trauma, ADHD, OCD, anxiety, grief and loss, burnout, compassion fatigue, emotional overwhelm, life transitions, and related nervous-system concerns. Her work may also support people navigating intrusive thoughts, perfectionism, people-pleasing, executive-functioning challenges, caregiver fatigue, and the impact of difficult past experiences.

  • Sessions are tailored to you and your goals. Depending on what would be most supportive, therapy may include understanding nervous-system responses, learning practical emotional-regulation skills, exploring protective parts, somatic awareness and grounding, ADHD- or OCD-informed strategies, EMDR when appropriate, and practical exercises you can use between sessions.

  • No. Wendi integrates a range of approaches, including EMDR, polyvagal-informed therapy, somatic therapy, IFS-informed and parts-informed work, CBT, DBT, ACT, narrative therapy, compassion-focused therapy, and solution-focused therapy. No single approach works for everyone, so the work is adapted to your needs and goals.

  • No. Wendi’s process begins with understanding your story, patterns, and nervous-system responses, and building regulation and practical support. Trauma processing may be included when appropriate and when you are ready for it. Her therapy-journey material places assessment, understanding, and regulation before processing, followed by integration and moving forward

  • That is something therapy can help with. Many clients struggle to identify emotions, feel emotionally numb at times, or notice that their body never fully relaxes. Therapy can support greater emotional awareness, somatic awareness, and understanding of the patterns beneath those experiences.

  • Both can be part of the work. Wendi’s approach includes understanding past experiences and deeper patterns, while also developing practical regulation skills, strategies, and exercises that can be used in everyday life.As a result, healing frequently happens in relationship too. Honest, accountable, and supportive relationships can provide opportunities to experience ourselves differently, develop new ways of relating, and practice showing up in ways that are more aligned with who we want to be. While awareness and acceptance are essential foundations, lasting change is often supported through accountability, practice, new experiences, and relationships that invite us to move beyond familiar patterns.

Let's Connect

You don’t need to know exactly what’s going on—or what kind of therapy you need—to take the first step.

A free 15-minute consultation is an opportunity to tell Wendi a little about what’s bringing you to therapy, ask questions, and get a sense of whether working together feels like a good fit.

There’s no pressure to have everything figured out. If Wendi feels that another therapist or service at Kelowna Trauma & Life Therapy may better support what you’re looking for, she’ll be happy to help point you in the right direction.