Couples & Family Therapy Center

04/21/2026

Meet Kacey King! Now that's a name that's easy to remember ;)
Kacey graduated with her master's degree from UW Stout's Marriage and Family Therapy program and joined us last fall. She has been busy ever since then helping kids, teens and young adults with stress, anxiety, social skills, life transitions, and relationships. She has also helped to make counseling more accessible for kids by having sessions in the school during the day. Kacey brings a warm and calm presence to therapy, which help kids and adults alike feel at ease with her. Kacey is currently accepting new clients so give us a call if you'd like to meet her! 715-441-1828

https://cftc-online.com/staff/kacey-king-ms

04/15/2026

How To Succeed In Couples Therapy:
Starting couples therapy can be scary. Some people worry that going to couples counseling is a sign that something must be very wrong with their relationship.

It's actually an act of kindness, caring, and respect to your family to ask for support when you need it. It's not just to help relationships going wrong, it helps the good ones become great!

Couples therapy works best when both partners are motivated to improve their relationship. Naturally, one partner or both may be uncertain about the relationship and have considered whether it's time to end it. A couples therapist can be very helpful in these situations as well, walking the couple through their dilemma on whether they would like to work on it together or not. There is also a structured process designed for this called Discernment Counseling, which you can read about in another article.

Once you have decided that couples therapy is something you'd like to do to improve your relationship, here are a few tips to keep in mind to help you succeed.

Take CARE:

C: Compassion – Come with compassion for yourself and your partner in this process.

A: Accountability – Be willing to hold yourself accountable in counseling and the relationship, and let the therapist help you hold each other accountable when necessary.

R: Reflection & Respect – Be ready and willing to reflect on yourself, your values, your actions, and your history so you can learn and grow through this experience. Also be respectful toward each other in this process since this takes courage and requires emotional safety to share these deeper parts of yourselves.

E: Expectations & Emotions –Have fair expectations of your partner and of the counseling process to set yourself up for success. It takes some time to build trust and repair hurts, so don’t give up too soon. Managing emotions in this process can also be difficult given this is one of the most important relationships in your life. We are here to help with strong emotions of course, but also take good care of yourself and feel free to say when you need a break or more support. We are in this together.

If you're ready to get started, contact our office today!
https://cftc-online.com/contact

04/02/2026

2 more offices updated and ready for sessions, for those of you enjoying our renovations. Cozy and comfy is our style 😉. Little did I know how much interior decorating and furniture buying I’d have to do over the years in this business. It’s a fun challenge keeping things coordinated and interchangeable for all the shifting around we do. Might not be able to keep up with the trends, but I did finally get a bold green couch in the mix! 😅

03/23/2026

Accepting New Clients! Please welcome the newest member of our team, Taylor Lazar. Taylor is based in Cumberland, WI offering online therapy throughout all of Wisconsin to teens and adults. Taylor has experience providing psychotherapy services in a medical setting as well as outpatient counseling giving her great experience at helping with common mental health challenges as well as more urgent and significant issues. She brings a very calm and confident presence to therapy which is so helpful for her clients. Taylor is looking forward to reaching out to the Cumberland area to support her community and neighboring areas in need of services. If you are looking for support with school stress, social struggles, anxiety, depression, life transitions, grief, or simply looking for a supportive person to talk to, reach out today while immediate openings are available!

https://cftc-online.com/staff/taylor-lazar-msw

If you're experiencing depression, anxiety, or relationship problems, help is closer than you think. Contact CFTC-Online for professional counseling.

03/20/2026

I really enjoyed this podcast for many reasons hosted by two professionals I have followed for years, but one great reason is the chance to watch two people respectfully disagree and repair some significant past hurts between them. This is what we try to help people do in relationships every day in our offices. It’s hard, but healing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wlUWQbVds0Q&pp=iggCQAE%3D&fbclid=IwRlRTSAQpiJNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeQF37NKsHm8enNO-ResSRS-YsRpN2A3QalVOCphvOE4FUz6DEoGPIULJ_Xig_aem_pInNJB5Tm3_yt_u3vyszgg

Welcome to The Curiosity Shop! In the inaugural episode, Brené and Adam discuss how a public disagreement about authenticity almost ended their relationship ...

03/18/2026

The Benefits of Finding a Virtual Therapist in Your Own Community

No doubt online therapy has benefited many people by making mental health therapy more accessible to many more people. It has also provided flexibility and more specialization for therapists, which is a benefit for both the therapist and the clients.

However, as giant corporations entering the mental health space gather up thousands of therapists to offer services nationwide and even worldwide, sometimes the benefits start to get lost. Often the therapists become less taken care of and feel disposable, and therefore so do the clients.

As we watch the trends of online therapy in the last few years, it appears that many people do still prefer to find a therapist near them, even for virtual therapy. As a small group practice, we love having the option to add online therapy for anxiety, depression, and relationships to our in-person services. This helps us serve people in the more rural areas of our states, as well as our local clients who need to squeeze in a session on a workday, be home with a sick kiddo, or avoid the roads on a snowy day which we have a lot of around here.

There are so many benefits to finding an online therapist near you, including:
• It’s easy to relate and connect through shared experiences happening in the same area.
• Local providers have more invested in maintaining a healthy and high-quality reputation in their area.
• Providers working in local groups are often provided with better compensation and work-life balance which leads to better services for the clients.
• You know who to contact with any questions or concerns when there is a local business behind the service.
• You may feel more motivated to stick with your treatment for better results when you feel connected to a local provider.
• There is often more consistency over time in being able to connect with or locate your provider again in the future throughout the years if you need help at different stages of life.

Online therapy is definitely here to stay and will keep getting better! If you are looking for high quality therapy, in person or online, we hope you’ll reach out to us.

Our main office is in Hudson, WI with a satellite office in Annandale, MN. Most of our therapists can offer virtual sessions throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota, with a couple of specialized Wisconsin based online therapists located in Cumberland, WI and Madison, WI.

Call us today at 715-441-1828.

https://cftc-online.com/the-benefits-of-finding-a-virtual-therapist-in-your-own-community

If you're experiencing depression, anxiety, or relationship problems, help is closer than you think. Contact CFTC-Online for professional counseling.

10/21/2025

Ready to see our (office) fixer upoer? Open for business! We are in! Still more to do, but we are most of the way there. “Chip” and I 😉 moved our whole suite, including a waiting room and 7 offices of furniture (basically 7 living rooms and an art room) in 3 days over the weekend and the therapists got settled in on Sunday. Whew! We are so sore and tired, but pretty darn happy with what we were able to do in two weeks! Now we can finish the job at a normal pace. It’s so fun to see the different styles in each room as the therapists make it their own. I might do another reveal of mine later when I get a chance to work on it and we have some better pictures. It’s hard to capture how good it feels in there, but here are a few shots. We are loving it so far and hope our clients do too ❤️

10/17/2025

Reno Phase 2: Red walls become blue! Most of the 7 offices had a red accent wall, which we needed to change for many reasons 😉. Since we don’t have time to paint every office right now, all we could get done were the blue walls. It came out more blue than the darker slate I thought it would be. But I’ve learned to quiet my perfectionist mind with “good enough!” ☺️. We’ll paint them all eventually. Moving on!

10/14/2025

Anyone like to watch design transformations? We are moving one of our suites to a larger space in the same building. We are switching spaces with the State Farm office everyone has known to be here for so many years. Don’t worry, they are still here, just moving upstairs and we are moving down! We are so grateful to the kind State Farm team as they have let us plan and paint while they work 😅. The dramatic difference in our branding colors makes this transformation fun to watch. Plus, we are making this switch in record time of 2 weeks! We are 10 days in now, have painted for about 40 hours and have the floors in. Watch it come to life over the next week or so. ❤️ Luckily my husband and I are the less talented Chip and Joanna Gaines. We flipped our first house in 1999 before we were even married! This is my kind of therapy, so fun, but much more painful at this age 😉😅

09/06/2025

School Stress? 3 Tips To Help Your Kids Manage Stress

https://cftc-online.com/school-has-begun-3-tips-to-help-your-kids-manage-stress

09/06/2025

*Openings Available for Child Therapy!
School has begun! Could your child benefit from therapy? School is full of stressors many parents are not aware of. It's not the same as when we were in school.

Classrooms can be overstimulating, the demands are getting higher, and the threats are getting scarier.

Sometimes it's easy to know when our kids are stressed, but other times we miss it. They might seem overtired, bored, or irritable. Maybe they are withdrawn and quiet, or melting down and acting out.

Parents do their best to support their kids, but sometimes we can still feel lost and confused, not knowing how to help. Therapy may be a great option to support you and your kiddo if stress seems to be climbing.

Therapists can help kids better understand and express their feelings, cope with difficult situations and find solutions through creative and playful outlets. Therapy also helps parents to better understand their child's needs as well as their own, so they can feel more confident and connected with their family.

If you think therapy might be helpful for your family, give us a call at 715-441-1828, or email us at info@cftc-online.com.

If you're experiencing depression, anxiety, or relationship problems, help is closer than you think. Contact CFTC-Online for professional counseling.

06/19/2025

Mental Health Benefits of Taking Your Shoes Off

Summer is here, whether the temperatures are climbing in your area yet or not. It’s been a bit slow to arrive here in the Midwest this year, but the flowers are starting to bloom.

Therapy often gets put on the backburner during summer in the Midwest, and sometimes for good reasons. It’s not always about being too busy trying to squeeze in all of the vacations and time outside we can, but it’s also because there are so many ways to improve our mood and increase our joy through being outside and seeing more sunshine.

Most people are not intentionally trying to improve their mental health in the summer, it’s just a lucky side effect we get to benefit from. However, if you are looking for clues of what else improves our mood besides the sun, look down to the ground. Having our bare feet directly on the grass or in the sand connects us to the Earth’s energy and has been shown to have a calming effect which can decrease anxiety and improve our mood. (If you find this concept interesting, you can research “grounding” or “earthing” to learn more about its health benefits.)

The best wellness tips I find are those that are easy to implement into things you do already. So, think about the times you are already in the yard that you could easily take off your shoes, whether that’s gardening, sitting by a fire, walking to the mailbox, or in my case, puppy-poop-scooping every morning. I figure it’s easier to wash my feet than my shoes if I step in anything, ha!

If you are looking for more support for your mental wellness, go to our website at cftc-online.com, or reach out to our office at 715-441-1828.

https://cftc-online.com/mental-health-benefits-of-taking-your-shoes-off