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Online Therapy in Wisconsin

Wildflower Mental Wellness provides online therapy to adults located in the State of Wisconsin

Wildflower Mental Wellness

Wildflower Mental Wellness

Are you a looking to discover who you are while processing the stress you’ve gone through in life?

Are you exploring who you are and want to learn more about your spicy brain 🌶️ (neurodivergent, ADHD, Autism, other neurodiversities)?

Do you struggle with feelings of overwhelm and hopelessness?

If this is you, let’s chat!

mental health focuses

  • When we experience trauma ( a distressing experience), our minds and our bodies are trying their best to just survive every day. When our trauma is not processed and healed, it shows up in our lives and can look like:

    -Being easily startled or frightened

    -Flashbacks

    -Intrusive thoughts or memories

    -Nightmares

    -Distress when being reminded of traumatic events

    -Trouble concentrating

    -Troubles sleeping

    -Irritability, anger, or aggression

  • Do you feel disconnected and experience challenges with being in the present moment? Do you feel like another part of you takes over in certain situations?

    Sometimes when we experience stress and trauma, it is too much for our brains which can lead to the following:

    Dissociation: disconnecting from reality-being detached from yourself and your emotions; memory loss, feeling like the world around you is not real

    Depersonalization: feeling like you are detached from your body and/or your thoughts; feeling like you are watching yourself from outside of your body or you are watching the world through a fog

    Derealization: everything around you feels surreal or dreamlike, like you're looking at the world but it doesn't seem quite real or familiar. It can make things seem distorted or like you're observing things from a distance, even though you're right there.

  • Wildflower Mental Wellness provides support to those who are struggling with anxiety and depression. Anxiety can look like irritability, overwhelm, worry, stress and anger. Depression can look like hopelessness, sadness, loss of interest in things you used to enjoy, emptiness, restlessness, and frustration.

    During our time together, we will create an individualized plan for your goals for therapy and how we can best support you.

    Support can look like:

    -Brainstorming ideas

    -Problem-solving stressors

    -Skill building

    -Comprehensive care to other community providers

    -Managing and coping with your current symptoms

    -Finding and healing the root of your symptoms

  • YOU ARE NOT ALONE

    YOU CAN HEAL

    Wildflower Mental Wellness provides support to those who are struggling with suicidal thoughts and self-harm. We will create an individualized plan to ensure your safety and provide you skills and strategies to help provide relief while you heal.

    **If you are in an immediate, life-threatening situation, please do not use this site. **

    Please reach out to trained professionals by connecting to the National Suicide Hotline at 1-800-273-8255.

    Your county crisis line is also listed here: https://www.preventsuicidewi.org/county-crisis-lines

    Other resources: https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/crisis/talk.htm

Therapeutic Interventions

TLDR Version: Parts Work/ IFS- Informed Therapy, DBT Therapy (Skills), EMDR Therapy, Harm Reduction, Motivational Interviewing

Wildflower Mental Wellness provides mental health therapy services such as: EMDR ( Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), DBT-informed care (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) and IFS-informed care (Internal Family Systems-informed) to help you process and cope with the different things in your life that causes daily stress.

In addition to these trauma treatments, Amanda is trained and has experience in motivational interviewing, mindfulness, and harm reduction models for substance use.

Aside from all the clunky therapy lingo.... We will take time and discuss how to best support you and your journey. Your journey and healing is tailored to you and what you need. Whether you are looking for tangible skills/strategies or want to process your past traumas and are on your path of discovery, Wildflower Mental Wellness is here when you are ready to get started!

Amanda Ruechel MSW, LCSW, Owner and Therapist at Wildflower Mental Wellness, is committed to affirming experiences of all humans.

I am committed to affirming experiences of BIPOC, 2SLGBTQIA+, and neurodivergent individuals. I continue to educate myself about these communities by engaging in different continuing education trainings, research, and reading articles. I welcome feedback from all clients about their experiences.