Compassionate Rewilding
From survival to sovereignty: reclaiming your power, trust, and authentic self.
“You’re not broken: you’ve been surviving. Here, we cultivate safety and empowerment, helping you reclaim trust, connection, and your truest self.”
Healing isn’t about becoming someone new: it’s about returning to who you’ve always been. At Compassionate Rewilding, we guide cisgender women, transgender, nonbinary, and queer adults through the recovery from abandonment wounds, the release from corrosive relationship patterns, and the rebuilding of self-trust, so they can step into their lives with confidence and connection.
Welcome to Compassionate Rewilding
At Compassionate Rewilding, I support femme folx, queer, nonbinary, transgender, and cisgender women in reclaiming their voice, their power, and their place in their own story. My work is grounded in relational therapy, recognizing that the wounds we carry — especially abandonment, betrayal, and control-based trauma — often shape how we connect, protect ourselves, and sometimes push others away in relationships.
“Rewilding” isn’t about escaping into nature: it’s about showing up fully, authentically, and unapologetically in your life, wherever you are. Together, we work to uncover the parts of you that long to be seen, heard, and whole.
Whether you’re healing from childhood trauma, the lasting impact of a controlling or emotionally unsafe relationship, betrayal trauma, or patterns rooted in abandonment wounds, our work together offers a safe, affirming, and nonjudgmental space to explore, understand, and transform what no longer serves you.
Using a trauma-informed, person-centered approach — including Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed EMDR and traditional EMDR therapy — I help survivors move from survival mode into sovereignty, fostering deeper self-trust and the capacity for healthy, empowered connection.
Your healing isn’t about becoming someone new: it’s about returning to your authentic self, fully alive, embodied, and free to connect.
Rebecca Wendfeldt, BS, LMHCA
Welcome to Compassionate Rewilding, a space for healing, reconnection, and authentic becoming.
I’m a trauma-informed, person-centered therapist specializing in relational therapy, empowering survivors of abandonment wounds, corrosive control, and relational trauma — whether rooted in childhood experiences or adult relationships. My focus is on helping clients shift from defensiveness and survival mode into connection, self-trust, and sovereignty.
My therapeutic style is integrative and adaptive. I draw from evidence-based modalities including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and attachment-based approaches. I also integrate feminist theory, ensuring our work is empowering and sensitive to the societal, cultural, and relational influences shaping your mental health and well-being. My work honors each client’s pace, cultural context, and personal values.
I hold a Bachelor of Science in Health Psychology and a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, both from Bastyr University, where I trained in a whole-person, integrative approach to mental health. My path to becoming a therapist has also been shaped by my own lived experience of embracing my neurodivergence and unique way of being in the world. I know firsthand the complexity of feeling both unseen and too visible at the same time, and the courage it takes to show up authentically: messy, sensitive, intuitive, sovereign.
Before my counseling career, I worked in the spa and bodywork industry, where I learned to honor the body’s innate capacity for healing. This holistic foundation continues to inform my work today. I may integrate mindfulness, guided imagery, creative visual tools, and somatic awareness to help clients connect with their inner resources.
“Rewilding” in my practice doesn’t mean disappearing into nature: it means returning to yourself. It’s about reclaiming the parts of you that have been silenced, reshaped to fit someone else’s expectations, or left behind for survival. Together, we’ll work to unlearn what no longer serves, nurture what’s been neglected, and support you in showing up in the world as your most authentic self, whether wild, tender, raw, or powerful.
You don’t have to have it all figured out to begin. All you need is a willingness to take that first step. I’ll meet you where you are and walk alongside you as you heal, integrate, and create a life aligned with your values.
Specialties
Complex Trauma & PTSD
I provide trauma-informed therapy, including EMDR therapy, to help you process painful experiences, release survival patterns, and build resilience. Whether your trauma stems from childhood, adult relationships, or a combination of both, we work at your pace to restore a sense of safety, trust, and agency.
Relational Therapy & Abandonment Wounds
Our early relationships shape how we connect as adults. I help women identify and heal from abandonment wounds that may be fueling defensiveness, fear of intimacy, or repeated unhealthy patterns. Through attachment-based therapy, we explore your relational history and build new, healthier ways of connecting.
Anxiety & Life Transitions
Whether it’s the weight of chronic worry, a major life change, or a sense of being “stuck,” I use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and somatic tools to help you navigate uncertainty, find grounding, and move forward with clarity.
Grief & Loss
Grief is not something to “get over”—it’s something to move through. I offer a compassionate space to process loss, whether of a loved one, a relationship, health, or identity, honoring your unique grieving process while helping you find meaning and hope.
Modalities
Somatic Therapy
Somatic Therapy addresses healing through body-based practices, including awareness, breath, and gentle movement. Because trauma can be stored in the body and accompanied by physical symptoms, a body-based approach can be essential to healing. Somatic therapy blends well with traditional talk therapy to enhance the mind-body connection and recovery.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful method that utilizes rhythmic alternating bilateral stimulation (eye movements, physical taps, or sounds) to resolve stuck memories or beliefs, sometimes previously unconscious, to help you feel less activated or triggered and more present and safe. EMDR can be paired with traditional talk therapy for deep healing.
IFS-Informed EMDR (IIE)
The Syzygy model of IFS-informed EMDR is an experiential and relational therapeutic approach that weaves together EMDR, Internal Family Systems, and Coherence Therapy. This integrative modality supports Self-led energy and a compassionate way of processing trauma in the treatment of PTSD, CPTSD, and related mental health challenges.
Therapeutic Approaches
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EMDR Therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
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Attachment-Based Therapy
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Internal Family Systems (IFS)
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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Recovery
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Mindfulness & Somatic Awareness Practices
Serving Clients in Seattle, WA, and throughout Washington State via Telehealth.
Frequently asked questions
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I operate as a private pay practice, which allows our work together to center your autonomy, your needs, and your healing—rather than the limitations often imposed by insurance systems.
Superbills can be provided for those seeking out-of-network reimbursement.
Because I believe access to care matters, I hold a small number of reduced-fee spaces for clients experiencing financial barriers. These spots are limited and offered with care to support sustainability for both you and the practice.
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Sessions start at $150 for 60-minute sessions. I also work with a limited number of clients on a sliding scale model, so please be sure to let me know, and we can find a price that works for you!
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Yes! I’m an inclusive, LGBTQ+ affirming practitioner. My practice is inclusive and affirming for women, queer, and trans-identifying individuals.
Ready to begin your healing journey with compassionate support?
Schedule your free consultation today.
