Loving Circle Counseling

06/16/2025

Feeling drained after endless scrolling?

📱Doomscrolling — the habit of consuming nonstop negative news — can quietly impact your mood, anxiety, and even relationships.

✨ In our latest blog, Sue Nguyen LMSW offers insights and practical ways to break the cycle and reclaim your peace.

👉 Check it out in our blog Healing Insights on our website: lovingcirclecounseling.com

02/24/2025

🌅 Janel Wetzel, LMSW, is offering a four-week virtual Survivor's Empowerment Group starting on March 17th. This group will explore and normalize responses to childhood sexual abuse, discuss its impact on adulthood, teach participants skills, and connect them with others who have similar experiences. Participants will not share or process their trauma in this group. Please reach out to Janel at janel@lovingcirclecounseling.com for more information or to get started! ✨

01/22/2025

We had our holiday party last week, and it was such a good time! As it has become a tradition, we kept it all local in Ferndale.

We started the day out with a photo shoot with . Magan was awesome and made us all feel comfortable. She took some great photos, which will be on our website soon!

We then headed to and got suited up for some immersive action painting! This was so much fun, and we got to lean into our creative side. It was also a great exercise in letting go of control!

Lastly, we ended up at for some delicious food! Sadly, we forgot to take pictures at this point, but we had a great time hanging out and eating tacos!

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I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to celebrate another year with such incredible people! I want to express my love and appreciation to all the beautiful humans who make up Loving Circle Counseling. I am also beyond grateful to all the clients we serve for trusting us and doing all the hard work in therapy. Thank you so much, and here's to another year of healing! -Ashley

12/17/2024

Are you a therapist newly trained in EMDR and lack the confidence to get started? Or a seasoned EMDR practitioner looking to enhance your skills and application of EMDR? Consultation and certification may be right for you! The EMDR certification process truly elevates your practice as an EMDR provider.

Providing high-quality EMDR with fidelity is a passion for Ashley Casalou, MA LPC CCTP. Ashley is offering EMDR consultation for those who are seeking certification through EMDRIA. Ashley is a Consultant-in-Training (CIT), which means she can support you for 15 out of the 20 consultation hours needed to become certified.

Ashley's specialties include attachment, PTSD, CPTSD, dissociation, abuse, and ego-state/parts work, among others!

Please reach out to us if you want more information or would like to get started!

12/13/2024

We are so excited to welcome Sue Nguyen, LMSW, to the practice! Sue is a compassionate, knowledgeable, and skilled therapist who shares our passion for working with trauma. We are so grateful that she is part of our team!

Suong (Sue) Nguyen (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LMSW) through the state of Michigan. Sue is passionate about providing a safe and empowering environment for her clients to tackle their mental health through evidenced-based modalities. She believes therapy should be a mutual partnership between her and her clients to help them achieve their fullest potential.

Sue specializes in trauma-informed therapy and has worked with trauma in many different capacities. She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT). Through these modalities, Sue commits to being culturally sensitive and nonjudgmental in her space. She’s always eager to cultivate a space that fits each client's unique needs. Other than trauma work, Sue also has experience working with depression, anxiety, life transitions, and women’s issues.

Sue is currently taking clients for virtual sessions. Reach out to schedule a consultation today- 248-264-3672! 🙂

10/25/2024

Check out the new blog post on the website by Janel Wetzel, LMSW, CTP on starting therapy!

https://www.lovingcirclecounseling.com/blog-healing-insights/the-therapy-breakdown-a-beginners-guide-to-getting-started

06/04/2024

We are so excited to offer a DBT skills group run by Amanda Schwandt, MA LPC! It will be a virtual, closed, 13-week DBT skills group starting on 6/20/24.

This group is all about learning real skills that will help you focus your mind, navigate your distress, regulate your body, and communicate effectively.

Most insurance plans cover group therapy- call your insurance company to confirm. We are in-network with BCBS, BCN, and Aetna.

Please email us at ashley@lovingcirclecounseling.com or call us at (248) 264-3672‬ to get started or for any questions you may have.

Trauma Recovery and Mental Health Counseling Services

04/17/2024

We celebrated our one-year anniversary with ceramics and sushi in Ferndale! (We missed you, Shelia!)

Thanks to everyone who has made this last year possible, including all of the amazing clients and therapists who are a part of Loving Circle! We are so grateful!

We all got together at for a wheel-throwing ceramics class. Sarah was our instructor, and she was awesome. The space was beautiful and bright. Making a bowl was therapeutic in and of itself, as we had to learn to go with it, lean into our unknowing, and let go of any attachment to a particular outcome! Thank you, Sarah, and Still Life, for a great time!

We followed up our celebration at for some delicious sushi! We were so in the moment and engrossed in the conversation that we forgot to take pictures! One of our personal favorites was the Gojo roll. Thanks, Tigerlily!

We are looking forward to many years to come!

02/23/2024

Discover how to effectively understand and overcome trauma at our upcoming workshop, presented by Janel Wetzel, LMSW CCTP. In this workshop, you'll gain valuable insights and strategies that can help you move toward healing and empowerment. Space is limited. RSVP: janel@lovingcirclecounseling.com.

02/04/2024

Janel Wetzel LMSW breaks down attachment theory in a blog post titled, "You Might Actually Be Able To Blame Your Parents." The post is on the website for your reading pleasure!

https://www.lovingcirclecounseling.com/blog-healing-insights/attachmenttheory