Recovering from the Milwaukee Flood
Our community has taken a huge hit. The Milwaukee Flood of 2025 has devasted many – you aren’t alone if you aren’t sure what to do next.
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EMDR Therapy: What It Is and How It Can Help You Heal
Therapy is vulnerable – get to know Sam a little more before you walk into her office.
Getting to Know your therapist – Sam Ensz
Therapy is vulnerable – get to know Sam a little more before you walk into her office.
Coping with Infertility: Finding Healing & Hope
Infertility is often an invisible struggle- one which carries deep emotional wounds and a complex web of grief.
Overwhelmed, Overloaded and Tapped Out
Feeling overwhelmed, overloaded, or completely tapped out is more common than you might think, but it doesn’t have to be your norm. This blog explores how your nervous system reacts in moments of stress using the Polyvagal Ladder framework. Learn to recognize signs of dorsal vagal shutdown, sympathetic fight-or-flight activation, and how to gently guide yourself back to a state of calm and connection (ventral vagal). With practical tools and relatable examples, this post provides simple strategies to help you move through stress and create more moments of balance and self-compassion in your daily life.
Coping with Post-Election Fears
You aren’t alone in your post-election overwhelm, and we are here to help.
Getting Unstuck – How Our Past Impacts Our Present & How to Find Ourselves Again
Getting Unstuck – How Our Past Impacts Our Present & How to Find Ourselves Again
Reconnecting With Yourself When the World Doesn’t Stop
When the world feels like it is running non stop how do you get reconnected to yourself?
Navigating Anxiety: Embracing Glimmers of Peace
Navigating anxiety is exhausting, and living anxiously without finding glimmers in your day can make everything feel dark.
Maybe Thinking Positively is Actually Hurting You
You’ve heard the phrases on a hard day “be grateful for this, someday you will see the bigger picture, let’s look at the silver lining”. While well intentioned these phrases actually make us feel small and isolated more than they help.
Brainspotting Therapy Helping you Keep your Past in the Past.
Brainspotting is a therapy tool that helps you gain access to the deeper parts of your brain. Supports you in helping your brain keep the past in the past.
When the negative thoughts are too loud.
When your negative thoughts get too loud, acknowledging them instead of avoiding them may actually be the way through.
