Shorehaven Behavioral Health, Inc

12/19/2025

The Bottom Line
Stigma, cost concerns, or waiting too long can make symptoms harder to treat. Reaching out early usually means:

> Faster relief
> Shorter treatment
> Clearer answers
> Better long-term outcomes

I Can Help YOU!
Take the first step toward a healthier mind and a happier life today. 💙
Visit ShorehavenBHI.com to schedule your appointment now!
💻 Virtual & In-Person Sessions Available
🏡 Proudly serving Brown Deer, Greenfield, & Racine, WI

12/12/2025

Benefits of Early Therapy
Clearer Understanding of the Problem
When you seek help early, it’s easier to identify what triggered the symptoms and what’s driving them now.

More Accurate Diagnosis
A single issue is simpler to treat. Delaying care can allow additional problems—like depression, substance use, or avoidance—to develop.

Better Outcomes
Most mental-health conditions respond more quickly to treatment when addressed early. Even serious issues, like first-episode psychosis, have better outcomes with rapid care.

Prevention of Complications
Untreated symptoms can snowball—depression can affect work and health, anxiety can lead to avoidance or isolation, and trauma can deepen into long-term patterns. Early support helps prevent this.

Reduced Impact on Daily Life
Quick access to therapy can protect school performance, job stability, relationships, and overall functioning.

Helps Children Stay on Track
Early treatment supports emotional and social development, helping kids keep pace with peers and build healthy coping skills.

Shorter, Simpler Treatment
Many issues can be resolved in brief therapy (6–20 sessions) when addressed early. The longer symptoms persist, the more complex and lengthy treatment becomes.

Avoiding Chronic Patterns
Conditions like anxiety, depression, agoraphobia, and substance misuse tend to expand and become chronic over time. Early support interrupts that pattern.

I Can Help YOU!
Take the first step toward a healthier mind and a happier life today. 💙
Visit ShorehavenBHI.com to schedule your appointment now!
💻 Virtual & In-Person Sessions Available
🏡 Proudly serving Brown Deer, Greenfield, & Racine, WI

12/05/2025

Why Getting Help Early Leads to Faster Healing
The sooner you begin therapy after symptoms appear, the quicker and easier recovery tends to be. Early intervention helps prevent problems from becoming more severe, complicated, or long-lasting.

Common early symptoms include:
Depressed mood or persistent grief
Panic attacks or heightened anxiety
Avoiding places or situations
Intrusive or distressing thoughts
New obsessions or compulsions
Sudden insomnia or nightmares
New phobias
Re-experiencing trauma

When these symptoms continue for a few weeks, they often worsen without support.

I Can Help YOU!
Take the first step toward a healthier mind and a happier life today. 💙
Visit ShorehavenBHI.com to schedule your appointment now!
💻 Virtual & In-Person Sessions Available
🏡 Proudly serving Brown Deer, Greenfield, & Racine, WI

11/21/2025

GROUP THERAPY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

Here is a pdf version of the flyer.

Our Virtual Group for people with mobility disabilities has new openings. The group meets 11:00 on Mondays. We accept clients from all over Wisconsin.

It's easy to refer. Just a call to Ty Welch or Monet Parr at 414-540-2170 or you can email the group leader, Sara Rahn, srahn@shorehavenbhi.com, or you can reach Ty and Monet at referrals@shorehavenbhi.com.

Shorehaven has office in Brown Deer, Greenfield, and Racine, and we accept telehealth clients from all over Wisconsin. In addition to helping with most adult problems, Shorehaven specializes in scheduling clients quickly, working with challenging situations, and working with children/adolescents and their families.

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11/15/2025

11/14/2025

THERAPEUTIC METAPHORS AND STORIES PART IV

Did you catch parts I, II, and III in this series? I have been so excited recording these and many other therapeutic metaphors and stories I have used over the years. I hope it will inspire you to write down your favorites. And share them in your comments.

Please Like, Follow, and Share. I have many more to share and Following Shorehaven Behavioral Health or connecting with me will make sure you see them and our other posts meant for professionals to use.

We make it easy to refer or to become a client, just a call to Ty or Monet at 414-540-2170 or write referrals@shorehavenbhi.com.

11/14/2025

KNOW YOUR ATTACHMENT STYLE?

The topic of attachment styles -- secure, anxous-insecure, anxious-avoidance, an disorganized -- has become increasingly popular. Let's look at a brief summary of this valuable topic.

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We make it easy to refer or to become a client, just a call to Ty or Monet at 414-540-2170 or write referrals@shorehavenbhi.com.

Our Common Problems page at www.shorehavenbhi.com has an Attachment Problems tab with a useful introduction to attachment problems and two articles including one of my favorites, "From the Mind of a Child With RAD." I'll post that on its own in the future. Like and Follow so you will get it and we thank you for sharing our posts.

Our website is rich with resources, www.shorehavenbhi.com. All of our 2-Minute Tips are on the Helpful Resources page of our website.

11/12/2025

Comprehensive Intro to Marriage & Couples Therapy

This 5-page into covers Problems Couples most often face, Goals of Couples Therapy, Benefits of Couples Therapy, & Strategies of Couples Therapists. This document is similar to the Marriage & Couples tab on the Treatments page of our website. That page has several other important articles for couples. We hope you will check it out and you can refer couples to it for that information.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8841dmyd4rs0bg0r77hjz/Marriage_-_Couples_Therapy_Comprehensive_Introduction.pdf?rlkey=qk36dhrza6buaqnmkems1t6z4&st=jkoskdla&dl=0

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We make it easy to refer or to become a client, just a call to Ty or Monet at 414-540-2170 or write referrals@shorehavenbhi.com.

Our website is rich with resources, www.shorehavenbhi.com. All of our 2-Minute Tips are on the Helpful Resources page of our website.

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11/11/2025

2 Important impacts of trauma on therapists - Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Traumatization. This thorough article covers the causes, signs and symptoms of Compassion Fatigue and VT. Then it goes into steps we can take to prevent it or to recover. I hope you find this 15-minute read helpful.

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We make it easy to refer or to become a client, just a call to Ty or Monet at 414-540-2170 or write referrals@shorehavenbhi.com.
Our website is rich with resources, www.shorehavenbhi.com. All of our 2-Minute Tips are on the Helpful Resources page of our website.


https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/eaoiu4n4vl6hlimboquyx/On_Compassion_Fatigue_and_Vicarious_Traumatization.pdf?rlkey=3fj0z3sel69iczoigne3yersc&st=re2hj6tc&dl=0

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11/11/2025

ACCESSIBILITY INCREASED

Our Racine/Mt Pleasant team has increased accessibility for clients with Medicaid and commercial insurance, children, adults, couples, families, and people with substance abuse. To access the team, we make it easy to refer or to become a client, just a call to Ty or Monet at 414-540-2170 or write referrals@shorehavenbhi.com.

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Our website is rich with resources, www.shorehavenbhi.com. All of our 2-Minute Tips are on the Helpful Resources page of our website.

11/11/2025

THERAPISTS USE METAPHORS AND STORIES
THERAPISTS USE METAPHORS AND STORIES to get across various points and encourage changes. I made up a metaphoric story in supervision recently and my colleague told me two days later it was so apt he had used it several times. I realized that over 5 decades, nearly 3 of them at Shorehaven building our wonderful team and serving thousands of clients over that time, I have come up with many stories, many metaphors. You probably have as well. I realized our best stories and metaphors are locked away in our own consulting rooms. We can share them! I can gift them to you and you can add yours on the comments. Or at least you can be inspired to write them down. All that wisdom can be shared. I have shared 4 stories and today I will share 2 more. I'll also store them on my Instagram page where they can be found and on Shorehaven's LinkedIn and pages and the Helpful Resources page of our website.

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We make it easy to refer or to become a client, just a call to Ty or Monet at 414-540-2170 or write referrals@shorehavenbhi.com.

Our website is rich with resources, www.shorehavenbhi.com. All of our 2-Minute Tips are on the Helpful Resources page of our website.