HEART Counseling

With a focus on trauma and its effects on relationships and parenthood, HEART Counseling offers individual, couples, and family therapy in Madison and online throughout Wisconsin. Clinicians work with children ages 10+, teens, and adults across the lifespan, addressing anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), grief, anger, stress, and burnout. They provide affirming care for LGBTQ+ clients and people of color and offer a free 15-minute phone or video consultation.

Trauma Therapy and Family Communication

Therapists use cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), trauma-focused CBT, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and internal family systems (IFS), adapting treatment to clients’ goals and pace. Children and teens explore emotions through drawing, games, puppets, and stories. Family therapy gathers each member’s perspective, while couples counseling addresses shared goals and communication. Sessions last 55 minutes, and graduate interns offer $50 sessions with sliding-scale fees for financial need.

Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting

Perinatal therapy addresses fertility challenges, miscarriage, pregnancy, and postpartum anxiety and depression. Clinicians treat birth trauma with EMDR and help birth partners process their experiences. Parenting counseling explores how childhood abuse, neglect, and family patterns affect raising children. Parents and caregivers can seek individual therapy at any stage of parenthood, while couples can work together on relationship difficulties before or after having a baby.