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Individual Therapy
We offer individual therapy for ages 12 and up, tailored for you or your adolescent. In individual therapy, we help you overcome personal challenges, mental health issues, and emotional difficulties. You will work directly with a licensed therapist in a confidential and supportive setting to explore thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
The primary goal of individual therapy is to facilitate personal growth, enhance self-awareness, and promote psychological well-being.
Individual therapy is beneficial for addressing a wide range of issues, including but not limited to: anxiety and depression, relationship difficulties, stress management, self-esteem and identity exploration, and behavioral concerns.
HOW IT WORKS
Through a collaborative process, individual therapy empowers you to navigate challenges with greater resilience and clarity. By working closely with a skilled therapist, you will achieve lasting improvements in your mental health and overall quality of life.
At Forward Healing, we provide a safe space for you to express yourself openly, gain insight into your experiences, and develop effective coping strategies. We utilize a variety of evidence-based techniques and modalities, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), relational therapy, and mindfulness practice, depending on your needs and goals. Individual therapy may also be combined with advanced therapist such as art therapy and EMDR.
Child Therapy
At Forward Healing Therapy, we recognize that children face unique challenges that require specialized support. Our child therapy services are designed to address emotional, behavioral, and developmental concerns with compassion and expertise.
OUR SERVICES INCLUDE
Therapy for neurodivergent children
Parent-Child Bonding
Anxiety and Trauma: Addressing heightened anxiety due to the current world environment, attachment trauma (such as adoption), or traumatic birth experiences.
Dyadic Therapy: Collaborative sessions with both parent and child to foster emotional regulation and familial healing.
Specialized Modalities such as Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Early Pathways, Theraplay, and integrating therapy dogs.
HOW IT WORKS
Our experienced therapists create a safe and nurturing environment where children can explore their feelings, develop coping strategies, and build resilience. We engage parents in the therapy process to support positive growth and well-being, teaching them skills to maintain a secure attachment and ensure that therapeutic interventions are sustainable and impactful. By fostering strong caregiver-child relationships, we empower families to thrive.
Expressive Art Therapy
We offer art therapy for individuals age 10 and up, offering a distinctive and effective approach to healing from challenging events, perinatal mental health issues, and various mental health struggles. Art therapy is an evidence-based practice that helps you express your feelings and experiences through art materials, colors, and symbolism, without the need for verbal communication.
WHAT TO EXPECT
No Artistic Skill Required: Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced artist, art therapy is accessible to everyone. The focus is on the therapeutic process of expression, not on the artistic outcome.
Emotional Benefits: Clients often feel "relaxed," gain "insight" into their experiences, and become "hopeful" about their healing journey through creating art. Art therapy helps engage sensory, kinesthetic, perceptual, and emotional aspects of your mind, providing comfort and insight when words are difficult.
HOW IT WORKS
You’ll collaborate with a trained art therapist to set goals for your therapy. During sessions, you will create art alongside your therapist, who will ensure you feel comfortable throughout the process. Optionally, you may also work on art-related tasks between sessions. Art therapy can be combined with other modalities like EMDR or individual therapy, tailored to your specific needs.
Brainspotting
We provide Brainspotting therapy to teens and adults who are seeking a deeper way to process trauma, emotional pain, or distressing experiences. This therapy can be especially helpful when talk therapy hasn't reached the root of the issue. Brainspotting can support healing after experiences such as anxiety, complex trauma, loss, emotional neglect, dissociation, chronic stress, and other overwhelming life events.
Brainspotting is a brain-body based therapy that helps process trauma stored deep in the brain and body. It works by using your eye position to access unprocessed trauma—without needing to talk through every detail. Many people find Brainspotting helpful when their trauma feels difficult to explain, or when emotions feel "stuck" in the body.
Clients often report feeling a sense of release, lightness, or calm after a session, even without talking much at all. Brainspotting is a flexible approach that can be done in-person or virtually, and is effective for both acute and long-standing emotional wounds. To learn more about Brainspotting, you can also reach out directly to Ashlea Kielar at ashleakielar@forwardhealingtherapy.com.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing)
We provide EMDR therapy for ages 10 and up, to help move forward after difficult experiences, such as social pressures, loss of loved ones, chronic illness, sexual abuse and witnessing stressful events. Trauma can also include ongoing exposure to a caregiver with mental health struggles or substance use, or exposure to a high level of parental control or criticism. EMDR is an evidenced-based intervention where we use bilateral movement (tapping, buzzers or eye movements) to help you process through traumatic material in a quicker way than traditional talk therapy.
HOW IT WORKS
During EMDR, you stay conscious and in the present (we say keep “one foot in the therapy room, and one foot in the past”). When we experience hard things, traumatic memory is stored in your body memory, cognitive (thinking) memory, and emotional memory. When we talk about the traumatic event, oftentimes we do not process what we felt in our bodies when the trauma happened (for example, racing heart or stomach ache). Using bilateral movement helps process through this traumatic material using all channels of processing, in an adaptive way.
It is essential that during EMDR you feel safe and supported by your therapist, and your therapist will always guide you and check in with you during processing. You are in control of the work, and your therapist is there is a guide and support to you.
Therapy is a very personal process, and finding a therapist who is a good fit is essential.
We provide a judgment-free, supportive space, where you are the most important person in the room.
You May Have Some Questions. Let Us Help.
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We are private-pay, out-of-network providers. While we don't accept insurance directly, your insurance plan may have out-of-network benefits, which means that they will reimburse you for a portion of your session cost. Our therapists at Forward Healing partner with Thrizer to handle the out-of-network process automatically for you. With Thrizer, you will only have to pay a copay for our sessions, instead of paying our full fee and waiting for reimbursements. This typically allows clients to save on average 70% upfront on our sessions. During our intake process, we can help you verify if you have out-of-network benefits and how much your copay would be. Our therapists fee ranges from $150 to $175 per session hour.
We also work with the Wisconsin Crime Victim’s Compensation Program, should you be eligible for therapy funding through this program. Victim’s compensation provides full funding for therapy related to trauma-recovery, for victims and secondary victims (such as parents) of a crime. You can find out more here, and please schedule a free phone consultation to discuss this process more.
All self-pay clients have the Right to a Good Faith Estimate. Learn more here about a Good Faith Estimate.