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HEART Counseling, LLC

Healing through Education, Action, & Research-Based Treatments

Therapy for kids, teens, and adults in Madison, Wisconsin

03/20/2026

March is National Social Work Month, and this matters deeply to us at HEART Counseling.

As a practice founded by a licensed clinical social worker, our work is rooted in the values that shape this field, including service, competence, and integrity.

We believe in the importance of human relationships, and that dignity and worth are inherent to all people. 🌍

We are deeply committed to social justice, and we are affirming and welcoming, especially for those who are often made to feel unseen, including people of color and those in the LGBTQIA+ community. 🏳️‍🌈

These aren’t just statements to us, they’re the principles that guide how we show up for you. Right now, we are living in the tension of a world that feels culturally, politically, and economically divided. In this landscape, we know it matters how care is offered.

It matters that you feel safe enough to be honest, and that your dignity is protected, not questioned. This support is at the heart of social work. 💜

03/13/2026

This March is Women's History Month, and we are holding space for the women who have been carrying stories that the world historically hasn't made space for. 👭📕 🗓 💜

Stories of being silenced. Stories of oppression.

Women’s History Month isn’t just about the well known historical figures, it’s about the mom learning to set boundaries for the first time, the friend who is finally sticking up for herself, and the survivor who decides her story doesn’t have to stay silent anymore.

History isn’t only what happened back then. History is being made right now, every single time a woman chooses to make herself heard instead of shrinking.

03/07/2026

Dont forget! The clocks "spring forward" one hour at 2:00 am tonight (early Sunday morning)!

Give yourself grace this week as our nervous systems adjust.

It is normal for sleep to feel off, mornings to feel more difficult, and for thinking to feel more slow. Expect that this week will feel more slow and more difficult than usual. Accept that change with kindness.

Small kindnesses go a long way when you are simply catching up. 🕰️

02/28/2026

Meet Makayla Wiegand, HEART Counseling's newest team member and therapist! 💜🛋

Makayla is a Marriage and Family Therapist–In Training (MFT-IT) who believes healing happens through connection - to ourselves, our relationships, and to the systems we are part of.

Makayla works with children, teens, and adults, and offers therapy for individuals, couples, and families. With children, she incorporates developmentally appropriate approaches like Play Therapy and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). 🧩🎲

She supports clients navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, stress, family conflict, life transitions, and relationship struggles (including parenting stress, school challenges, infidelity, self-esteem, and women’s issues).

Makayla accepts Quartz, Dean Health Plan/Medica, and Wisconsin Medicaid (BadgerCare/Forward Health), including associated HMOs.

Interested in working with Makayla? Reach out with our website contact form at heartcounselingllc.com, or email her directly at Makayla@heartcounselingllc.com

02/19/2026

Another 👀 sneak peek 👀 into day two of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) training completed by several of our clinicians last week:

During day two, we spent hours in small groups actually practicing the model with one another. 👭No hypotheticals, and no case studies. Just our own parts. 🧩

There was less note-taking, more closing our eyes, and more long pauses as we sat with our parts. 💻

We learned how to “unblend” from parts (to separate from a part enough to see it), and "unburden" parts (to release a part from the role it's been carrying for years).

We prioritize lifelong learning and critical self-reflection so that healing isn’t just something performative we direct from across the room. 🎓📘 🤔 💭 🔍

Instead, we make sure we’re willing to face our own parts before we ask our clients to. 💜 🧩 🛋

02/18/2026

Lamps on. 🛋 Tea steeping. 🍵 Laptop charged. 💻 Notebooks open. 🗒

Here is a sneak peek into day one of an Internal Family Systems (IFS) training that several of our clinicians here at HEART Counseling completed last week!

IFS is about helping people observe and understand the different “parts” of themselves (the people-pleaser, the planner, the inner critic, the intellectualizer) with compassion instead of shame.

Before we guide anyone there, we go there ourselves.

You deserve therapists who are still willing to do their own work so that they can fully show up for you. 💜

02/07/2026

"And how does that make you feel?" 🤔 🗒 🖊

Have you seen Elle around our downstairs suite lately? 🐕🐾

She loves pets and is happy to say hi if you need emotional support!

01/28/2026

Meet Savannah Buttermore, HEART Counseling's newest team member and counseling intern!

Savannah is a second-year Master’s student in the Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Savannah is particularly interested in working with youth who have moved frequently.

Savannah works with kids (6+), teens, young adults, and adults. She is passionate about working with older teens and young adults navigating anxiety, depression, and school, as well as those experiencing life transitions.

Interested in working with Savannah? Want to learn more? Find more on our website!

01/26/2026

At HEART Counseling, we believe that community is about far more than where people live. Community is about having somewhere that you feel like you belong, unconditionally.

During these times of uncertainty, we want to reiterate that we welcome clients of all races, ethnicities, genders, ages, abilities, identities, and lived experiences.

You never have to earn your place here.

12/18/2025

There’s a moment in therapy when people start to worry they’re going backwards.

Not because anything is wrong - but because things are suddenly louder than they were before.

You notice old patterns faster, and somehow that makes them feel heavier.

You finally have words for things, and now those things are harder to ignore.

You reach for support sooner, and it feels like a failure instead of what it is - growth.

Progress rarely looks like confidence.

Most of the time it looks like confusion, exhaustion, and a nervous system learning a new way to exist in the world. 😮‍💨

And even though it feels messy, this is often the part where something real is taking shape. 💕

12/12/2025

We know none of this list is getting crossed off anytime soon 😂🫠🫠

But Little Playroom Cafe looks like a place where parents actually get to breathe. ☕️

Have you tried it!?
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12/10/2025

Sometimes we need the reminder that mental health isn’t extra.
It isn’t a trend or a side project.
It’s part of being a person.

And it deserves the same care we give everything else that keeps us going.

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Address

7633 Ganser Way, Suite 200
Madison, WI
53719

Telephone

+16086883200

Website

http://heartcounselingllc.com/

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