Therapists in 53711
Meg (she/her) specializes in supporting people navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Her practice also includes working with couples, offering guidance through communication issues and relationship stress. She is passionate about helping clients who feel overwhelmed by life’s demands, those struggling with self-esteem, and those seeking deeper self-awareness. Megan has over 20 years of experience supporting and advocating for her community in many settings. Her approach is rooted in empathy, respect, and collaboration, and she tailors therapeutic techniques to meet the specific needs and goals of each person.
Meg (she/her) specializes in supporting people navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Her practice also includes working with couples, offering guidance through communication issues and relationship stress. She is passionate about helping clients who feel overwhelmed by life’s demands, those struggling with self-esteem, and those seeking deeper self-awareness. Megan has over 20 years of experience supporting and advocating for her community in many settings. Her approach is rooted in empathy, respect, and collaboration, and she tailors therapeutic techniques to meet the specific needs and goals of each person.
The majority of my clients are children, adolescents, and young adults that are navigating school, friendships, family changes, identity development, and everything else that comes with growing up. I also work with student-athletes (from youth to college), helping to manage the balance between performance and pressure. I have experience supporting individuals across the autism spectrum, and I also see adults working through anxiety, depression, OCD, and related concerns.
The majority of my clients are children, adolescents, and young adults that are navigating school, friendships, family changes, identity development, and everything else that comes with growing up. I also work with student-athletes (from youth to college), helping to manage the balance between performance and pressure. I have experience supporting individuals across the autism spectrum, and I also see adults working through anxiety, depression, OCD, and related concerns.
I established my practice in 2007 following a decade of working as a therapist at Jane Addams' Hull House and Chicago area treatment facilities. My office is highly accessible, comfortable, and conducive to effective therapy. I believe that most people can benefit from an objective outside perspective during difficult or challenging times in their lives. My role is to provide additional support and to assist clients during this time of growth, transition or discovery. I help clients identify and navigate issues, crises and areas that are in need of healing. My approach is insight oriented, client centered, and non-judgmental.
I established my practice in 2007 following a decade of working as a therapist at Jane Addams' Hull House and Chicago area treatment facilities. My office is highly accessible, comfortable, and conducive to effective therapy. I believe that most people can benefit from an objective outside perspective during difficult or challenging times in their lives. My role is to provide additional support and to assist clients during this time of growth, transition or discovery. I help clients identify and navigate issues, crises and areas that are in need of healing. My approach is insight oriented, client centered, and non-judgmental.
I meet with adult individuals in their search of healing and personal growth, and I strive to awaken motivation, meaning and happiness. We work together on reducing emotional suffering, improving resistance to positive change, and building inner peace. I have witnessed that support of a therapist can be helpful in either maintaining or restoring good health/wellbeing.
I am licensed to practice counseling in AZ, NY and WI.
I meet with adult individuals in their search of healing and personal growth, and I strive to awaken motivation, meaning and happiness. We work together on reducing emotional suffering, improving resistance to positive change, and building inner peace. I have witnessed that support of a therapist can be helpful in either maintaining or restoring good health/wellbeing.
I am licensed to practice counseling in AZ, NY and WI.
I work with adults (18+) navigating life transitions, identity, acceptance and belonging, and the complexities of relationships including parenting. I also support clients experiencing anxiety, depression, loneliness, grief and loss, trauma, and a sense of feeling stuck.
I work with adults (18+) navigating life transitions, identity, acceptance and belonging, and the complexities of relationships including parenting. I also support clients experiencing anxiety, depression, loneliness, grief and loss, trauma, and a sense of feeling stuck.
Feeling truly seen and understood can be the beginning of healing. I'm dedicated to creating a supportive and safe environment so we can explore the signs that point toward healing, peace and self-honoring. Together, we can embark on your therapeutic journey together in a safe and compassionate space. My approach is trauma-sensitive and collaborative, focusing on your individual concerns that brought you to counseling. I draw from an attachment-based lens and integrate elements of mindfulness, interpersonal processing, and cognitive/narrative therapies.
Feeling truly seen and understood can be the beginning of healing. I'm dedicated to creating a supportive and safe environment so we can explore the signs that point toward healing, peace and self-honoring. Together, we can embark on your therapeutic journey together in a safe and compassionate space. My approach is trauma-sensitive and collaborative, focusing on your individual concerns that brought you to counseling. I draw from an attachment-based lens and integrate elements of mindfulness, interpersonal processing, and cognitive/narrative therapies.
You might be a college student or young adult feeling weighed down by anxiety, stress, or ADHD-related challenges. Perhaps you’re trying to balance academics, work, and relationships, but find yourself stuck in cycles of procrastination, overwhelm, or self-doubt. Or you may be a parent watching your child struggle—wanting to support them but unsure of the best way forward. In either case, you’re looking for tools, understanding, and a clear path toward lasting change. As both a Licensed Psychologist and a Nationally Certified School Psychologist, I bring a deep understanding of how learning, behavior, and mental health intersect.
You might be a college student or young adult feeling weighed down by anxiety, stress, or ADHD-related challenges. Perhaps you’re trying to balance academics, work, and relationships, but find yourself stuck in cycles of procrastination, overwhelm, or self-doubt. Or you may be a parent watching your child struggle—wanting to support them but unsure of the best way forward. In either case, you’re looking for tools, understanding, and a clear path toward lasting change. As both a Licensed Psychologist and a Nationally Certified School Psychologist, I bring a deep understanding of how learning, behavior, and mental health intersect.
You feel like you're always on edge all the time. It feels like you're wound up like a top and never get to unravel and relax. Everything in your body hurts on the reg. You can't remember a day without pain and discomfort. Nothing helps, you've lost trust in going to the doctor, and you've begun to loathe your body. Everything else in your life is falling apart too because you BARELY have enough energy left at the end of the day. You've pretty much given up hope.
You feel like you're always on edge all the time. It feels like you're wound up like a top and never get to unravel and relax. Everything in your body hurts on the reg. You can't remember a day without pain and discomfort. Nothing helps, you've lost trust in going to the doctor, and you've begun to loathe your body. Everything else in your life is falling apart too because you BARELY have enough energy left at the end of the day. You've pretty much given up hope.
If you’re dealing with anxiety, you may already understand yourself pretty well and still feel stuck. You might know why you think the way you do, but that hasn’t stopped your mind from racing, worrying, or pulling you away from the life you want. I work especially well with people whose anxiety is driven by high standards, overthinking, and the sense that they should be doing life “better.” I often support clients with perfectionistic or rigid tendencies, intrusive thoughts and mental loops, who feel exhausted from trying to control their minds.
If you’re dealing with anxiety, you may already understand yourself pretty well and still feel stuck. You might know why you think the way you do, but that hasn’t stopped your mind from racing, worrying, or pulling you away from the life you want. I work especially well with people whose anxiety is driven by high standards, overthinking, and the sense that they should be doing life “better.” I often support clients with perfectionistic or rigid tendencies, intrusive thoughts and mental loops, who feel exhausted from trying to control their minds.
Paula Witt
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LSCW
1 Endorsed
Serves Area
Waitlist for new clients
Are you a parent that is worried about your kid? Do you feel just as stuck as they are and unsure where to go or what to do? This is COMMON, and you are not alone. With 13+ years of experience working with children/adolescents and families, I can assure you that THINGS CAN GET BETTER! Whether you have a child that is struggling behaviorally or a teen that is struggling with anxiety/depression and shutting you out, I can help. I balance supporting the individual, while also strengthening relationships among family members.
Are you a parent that is worried about your kid? Do you feel just as stuck as they are and unsure where to go or what to do? This is COMMON, and you are not alone. With 13+ years of experience working with children/adolescents and families, I can assure you that THINGS CAN GET BETTER! Whether you have a child that is struggling behaviorally or a teen that is struggling with anxiety/depression and shutting you out, I can help. I balance supporting the individual, while also strengthening relationships among family members.
I specialize in helping high-achieving, perfectionistic women who feel overwhelmed, anxious, and burnt out — even when their lives look successful on the outside. Many of my clients struggle to slow down, rest, or take time off without guilt. Their minds never shut off, their nervous systems feel stuck in overdrive, and they’re exhausted from holding everything together for everyone else.
I specialize in helping high-achieving, perfectionistic women who feel overwhelmed, anxious, and burnt out — even when their lives look successful on the outside. Many of my clients struggle to slow down, rest, or take time off without guilt. Their minds never shut off, their nervous systems feel stuck in overdrive, and they’re exhausted from holding everything together for everyone else.
Gwendolyn Olson
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW, PMH-C
3 Endorsed
Serves Area
Waitlist for new clients
Your brain won’t stop running worst-case scenarios—and you're exhausted from trying to manage it. Anxiety, intrusive thoughts, trauma, OCD patterns, illness fears, or depression keep pulling you into mental loops you can’t just 'shut off'. Maybe you're also navigating a huge life transition like trying to conceive, pregnancy, postpartum, or loss. On the outside you look like you’re holding it together, but inside things feel loud and overwhelming. You want relief from the mental noise, practical tools that actually work, and a place where you don’t have to pretend everything is fine.
Your brain won’t stop running worst-case scenarios—and you're exhausted from trying to manage it. Anxiety, intrusive thoughts, trauma, OCD patterns, illness fears, or depression keep pulling you into mental loops you can’t just 'shut off'. Maybe you're also navigating a huge life transition like trying to conceive, pregnancy, postpartum, or loss. On the outside you look like you’re holding it together, but inside things feel loud and overwhelming. You want relief from the mental noise, practical tools that actually work, and a place where you don’t have to pretend everything is fine.
I support clients to reconnect with vitality, wholeness, and purpose by identifying blocks and nurturing strengths. I collaborate with each person to support meaningful connections to self and loved ones, to pets, to creative and spiritual practices, to work, community, and the natural world. Compassion and a commitment to honoring each person as unique are guiding principles; I am honored to listen to and support clients of intersecting identities and lived experiences.
I support clients to reconnect with vitality, wholeness, and purpose by identifying blocks and nurturing strengths. I collaborate with each person to support meaningful connections to self and loved ones, to pets, to creative and spiritual practices, to work, community, and the natural world. Compassion and a commitment to honoring each person as unique are guiding principles; I am honored to listen to and support clients of intersecting identities and lived experiences.
If you're struggling with anxiety, ADHD, depression, grief, cultural identity concerns, relationship challenges, or feeling stuck between different expectations in your life, you're not alone. Many of my clients come to therapy feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, uncertain about their next steps, or exhausted from trying to manage everything on their own. Others are navigating family conflict, life transitions, loss, or challenges related to identity and belonging.
If you're struggling with anxiety, ADHD, depression, grief, cultural identity concerns, relationship challenges, or feeling stuck between different expectations in your life, you're not alone. Many of my clients come to therapy feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, uncertain about their next steps, or exhausted from trying to manage everything on their own. Others are navigating family conflict, life transitions, loss, or challenges related to identity and belonging.
Most couples who find their way here have already tried talking it through — and keep ending up in the same place. The problem usually isn't effort or intention. It's that they're missing a framework built on what actually works. I'm a Gottman Method Level 3 practitioner with 15 years teaching communication at NYU Tisch. I work with couples navigating conflict, emotional distance, eroded trust, and affair recovery — and with individuals dealing with anxiety, burnout, and major life transitions.
Most couples who find their way here have already tried talking it through — and keep ending up in the same place. The problem usually isn't effort or intention. It's that they're missing a framework built on what actually works. I'm a Gottman Method Level 3 practitioner with 15 years teaching communication at NYU Tisch. I work with couples navigating conflict, emotional distance, eroded trust, and affair recovery — and with individuals dealing with anxiety, burnout, and major life transitions.
Throughout my professional experience, I have worked with clients navigating a wide array of conditions, challenging circumstances, and complex emotional states. Because of this experience, I view the development of personalized life strategies as central. I prioritize an approach that places client well-being first. I can offer help in cultivating a mindful presence within yourself by blending humanistic, emotional, behavioral, and somatic approaches in therapy sessions.
Throughout my professional experience, I have worked with clients navigating a wide array of conditions, challenging circumstances, and complex emotional states. Because of this experience, I view the development of personalized life strategies as central. I prioritize an approach that places client well-being first. I can offer help in cultivating a mindful presence within yourself by blending humanistic, emotional, behavioral, and somatic approaches in therapy sessions.
My clients often want to gain deep insights into themselves and use these insights to see shifts such as greater self-compassion, less anxiety, and more fulfillment and authenticity. Whether processing trauma or difficult relationships, navigating their sexual identity (queer, non-monogamous, kinky, etc.), or working through everyday struggles, my clients seek an understanding, informed, and non-judgmental place that can help them truly get to know themselves.
My clients often want to gain deep insights into themselves and use these insights to see shifts such as greater self-compassion, less anxiety, and more fulfillment and authenticity. Whether processing trauma or difficult relationships, navigating their sexual identity (queer, non-monogamous, kinky, etc.), or working through everyday struggles, my clients seek an understanding, informed, and non-judgmental place that can help them truly get to know themselves.
I currently have a waitlist and am able to schedule intakes for October 2026.
I currently have a waitlist and am able to schedule intakes for October 2026.
Therapy is a place to bring the parts of yourself that are hurting, exhausted, overwhelmed, uncertain, or longing for something different. It is also a place to discover the strengths, wisdom, and resilience that already exist within you. My focus in therapy is helping individuals and couples heal from the experiences that continue to impact their lives and relationships today. Sometimes those experiences are clearly traumatic. Other times, they are the accumulated hurts, losses, disappointments, and relationship patterns that leave us feeling stuck, disconnected, overwhelmed, or not quite ourselves.
Therapy is a place to bring the parts of yourself that are hurting, exhausted, overwhelmed, uncertain, or longing for something different. It is also a place to discover the strengths, wisdom, and resilience that already exist within you. My focus in therapy is helping individuals and couples heal from the experiences that continue to impact their lives and relationships today. Sometimes those experiences are clearly traumatic. Other times, they are the accumulated hurts, losses, disappointments, and relationship patterns that leave us feeling stuck, disconnected, overwhelmed, or not quite ourselves.
Taryn Cates
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, ATR, LPC
2 Endorsed
Madison, WI 53711
Not accepting new clients
You've spent a long time holding it together. Maybe you're moving through a loss, a transition, or a season that's harder than expected. You're here because part of you is ready to look closer.
I work with women who are thoughtful and open to doing things differently. We'll use a combination of art and talk therapy — not because you need to be an artist, but because the most honest part of us often shows up on the page before it finds words.
If you're curious, that's enough to start.
You've spent a long time holding it together. Maybe you're moving through a loss, a transition, or a season that's harder than expected. You're here because part of you is ready to look closer.
I work with women who are thoughtful and open to doing things differently. We'll use a combination of art and talk therapy — not because you need to be an artist, but because the most honest part of us often shows up on the page before it finds words.
If you're curious, that's enough to start.
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Number of Therapists in 53711
200+
Average cost per session
$167
Therapists in 53711 who prioritize treating:
| 91% | Anxiety |
| 91% | Social Anxiety |
| 91% | Health Anxiety |
| 91% | Driving Anxiety |
| 85% | Depression |
| 72% | Relationship Issues |
| 69% | Trauma and PTSD |
Average years in practice
9 Years
Top 3 insurances accepted
| 63% | BlueCross and BlueShield |
| 59% | Aetna |
| 54% | Quartz |
How Therapists in 53711 see their clients
| 71% | In Person and Online | |
| 29% | Online Only |
Gender breakdown
| 76% | Female | |
| 21% | Male | |
| 3% | Non-Binary |