SLC Therapist Christy Kobe, LCSW, introducing Eating Disorder Therapist Wendy Jensen, LCSW
Salt Lake City Therapist Christy Kobe, LCSW, CCTP, EMDR Therapist Utah introducing Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, Wendy Jensen, LCSW, Founder of Inside Wellness
As a Salt Lake City therapist, I care deeply about the skills, integrity, and heart that clinicians bring into their work. I pay attention to how therapists talk about people’s struggles, how they understand complexities, and how they hold space for growth without rushing or fixing. When I meet a clinician who brings curiosity, genuine compassion and “walking the talk” as we call it into the therapy room, I want you to know about them.
So, I’m honored to introduce Wendy Jensen, LCSW, a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, Founder of Inside Wellness, and a therapist with over 20 years of experience helping college-aged adults and women of all ages to heal their relationships with food, body image, and, in turn, healing their relationship with themselves.
Why Wendy Chose to Become a Therapist
Wendy has always loved learning and knew she wanted to be in a helping profession in some capacity. Therapy offered a path that aligned with both her curiosity and her values—work that is meaningful, relational, and constantly evolving. She was drawn to social work and therapy because of the issues themselves and the built-in expectation that learning never stops.
Wendy’s ongoing curiosity continues to shape her work today. Therapy with Wendy is thoughtful, reflective, and grounded in the belief that growth happens when understanding deepens—not when people are pushed.
Why Salt Lake City and Utah County
Wendy wanted to provide services to Wasatch Front residents & college students, so it made sense for her to have a Salt Lake City office & a Utah County office as well. Over time, her practice has evolved, and she now works mostly virtually, supporting a wide mix of ages and stages of life throughout Utah.
Therapy Services at Inside Wellness
Wendy currently offers individual therapy in standard 50-minute sessions, typically meeting weekly.
While she is interested in offering half-day or full-day intensives in the future to help people gain traction more quickly, her focus right now is on the depth and consistency that comes from ongoing therapeutic work.
Specialization Areas
Wendy specializes in working with individuals who struggle with:
Eating disorders
Body image concerns
Anxiety related to food, body image, and self-perception
Within these areas, therapy often includes addressing perfectionism, shame, emotional resilience, and learning how to step into your voice and your life more fully. Wendy understands that eating disorders and body image concerns rarely exist in isolation—they are often intertwined with how you learned to relate to yourself, your emotions, and your needs.
Who Wendy Loves Working With
Wendy often works with women (college-aged and older) who are high-achieving, highly logical, and also deep feelers. You may be someone who is very self-aware, capable, and conscientious—yet also incredibly hard on yourself.
Many of the people Wendy works with learned early on to dim emotions or limit what they shared—sometimes due to family or cultural norms, and sometimes out of a desire not to burden caregivers or create stress for others. Even in supportive families, you may have learned to put others’ needs first and your own second.
Simply put, Wendy works with people who have the best hearts and she supports them in learning to treat themselves with the same kindness and gentleness that they so easily give to others.
How Wendy Helps with Anxiety, Body Image, and Eating Disorders
Wendy’s work is grounded in the fact that your relationship with yourself is your longest-standing relationship, so much of her work centers on helping you gain the tools to feel more at home in your body. Therapy focuses on healing your relationship with your body and food, while also reshaping how you relate to your inner critic.
Rather than trying to eliminate that critical voice, Wendy helps you re-brand it—from an alarm bell that creates fear and urgency into a notification that offers information. This shift can be especially powerful when your anxiety is rooted in body image concerns or eating disorder patterns. Working with your biology, assessing it's needs, and learning when & how to lean into can be trickier than it seems.
Together, you’ll explore how to build self-trust, increase compassion toward yourself, and develop a deeper capacity for curiosity and connection. These skills often become essential tools for navigating changes, and the long-term process of recovery, resilience and stability.
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What Makes Wendy’s Approach Unique
In addition to tools and techniques developed over 25 years of practice, Wendy names trust as one of the most powerful aspects of her work—trust in herself, and trust in her body. She trusts her intuition when something feels off and is not afraid to name it in session.
These moments often provide valuable information about where therapy may be getting stuck and can mirror patterns that show up in relationships outside of therapy. Wendy sees this not as a problem, but as meaningful data that helps deepen the work.
Wendy is also a strong believer in practicing what she teaches. Her relationship with her body, food, and self-compassion is an ongoing, lived practice. Her training includes self-compassion intensives, Brené Brown–informed work, and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (A.R.T.), all thoughtfully integrated to support shifts in how you see yourself and the world.
Like me, Wendy also believes in and uses the power of laughter and lightness in therapy alongside depth and seriousness.
What Wendy Finds Herself Teaching Every Day
Wendy frequently helps people slow down and look at the context surrounding emotions, experiences, and responses. Rather than asking “What’s wrong with me?”, therapy invites questions like, “What was happening at the time?” and “What makes sense about this response?”
Getting curious about emotions—especially ones you may instinctively avoid—often becomes a path toward freedom. Wendy recognizes that self-judgment and fear are vulnerable experiences, even in therapy, and works gently to help you meet them with compassion.
Over time, self-compassion becomes one of your most reliable tools—something you can return to when few other strategies seem to help.
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What Wendy Wishes People Knew About Working With Her
Wendy describes her style as a blend of flexible and direct. She adjusts her approach depending on what you tell her you need and draws from extensive experience in inpatient and residential treatment settings. This background has given her a deep well of experience working with a wide range of personalities and treatment needs.
What Your First Session Is Like
Before your first appointment, Wendy sends a pre-screening assessment tool for you to complete in order to get a clearer picture of what’s bringing you into therapy, your background and which areas feel most challenging right now.
Your first session is focused on connection. Wendy spends time getting to know you as a person and answering any questions you may have about therapy or her background. Rather than following a rigid list of intake questions, she prefers a more fluid, relational approach that feels authentic and less overwhelming.
By the end of the second session, Wendy has gathered a full history and you’ll have a shared understanding of where you want to start and what you hope therapy might offer—even if you don’t have a clear picture when you begin.
How to Contact Wendy Jensen
Wendy Jensen, LCSW, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, Founder of Inner Wellness
If you’re looking for an eating disorder therapist or body-image-focused therapy in the Salt Lake City area, you can reach Wendy here:
Website: https://insidewellness.com
Phone: 801-699-6161
About Wendy Jensen, LCSW, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist
Wendy Jensen has been a therapist for 25 years. She is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist with 20 years of experience in this specialization area. She is passionate about self-compassion, befriending your body, and building trust in yourself.
Outside of work, Wendy enjoys music, novels, and learning books (mostly audiobooks), spending time outdoors, traveling, and she is at her happiest when she’s at the lake.
If you would like to learn more about my background and approach to the therapy process, click here to learn more.
Author Bio
Photo of SLC Therapist Christy Kobe, LCSW, CCTP, EMDR Therapist Utah who offers therapy both in-person at her office in SLC and via online therapy as a Utah therapists for residents throughout the state
Christy Kobe, LCSW, CCTP, EMDR Therapist Utah, is a Salt Lake City therapist who has been practicing in the SLC area since Spring 2003. In addition to completing her licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Christy has completed training and certification as an EMDR therapist, in-depth clinical training on Polyvagal Theory Informed Trauma Therapy, certification as a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP), clinical certification training to help clients struggling to deal with an individual with a personality disorder in their lives, and completed extensive clinical training on the treatment of trauma and attachment taught by international experts on these subjects.
She works individually with sensitive, high achieving, perfectionistic, or progressive women who are stressed, overwhelmed, burned out, and afraid they are about to break. She is especially passionate about working with clients who have experienced any type of trauma including childhood trauma and neglect, relational trauma, religious trauma and complex trauma. She also specializes in treating anxiety and stress; parenting issues; relationship issues; separation and divorce; life transitions; women’s disempowerment; burnout; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); and issues related to dealing with a narcissist in your life.
You can learn more about her unique approach and what it’s like to work with her here. Please reach out to request a consultation if you would like to explore the possibility of partnering with her as your therapist.