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HEART Counseling, LLC

Healing through Education, Action, & Research-Based Treatments

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

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!?
🧡

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.

🧡

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from the HEART family to you.

Hoping you enjoy love, gratitude, and the quiet satisfaction of recognizing a generational pattern in real time and thinking, …of course. 😂😂🧡

11/26/2025

The night before a holiday can stir up a lot - stress, tenderness, old patterns.

Even in the closest relationships, it’s easy for small moments to land a little heavier than we meant. 😬

And most of us were never taught how to untangle that gently.

We weren’t shown how to pause without withdrawing, or how to reconnect without pretending nothing happened.

Repair doesn’t have to be heavy.

ometimes it’s as simple as: “I’m glad we’re here together. Let’s start fresh.”

It’s a soft reset.

A way of saying, we can try again, without pressure or perfection.

And it’s wild how much can shift when warmth gets to lead the way.

11/24/2025

A lot of people walk into this week with mixed feelings.

You can genuinely love your family and still feel a little flutter of tension before you walk in the door. 💕

Mixed feelings aren’t a problem.

They’re human.

They’re honest.

And sometimes they just mean this gathering matters to you - enough to hope it lands well. 😅

There’s room for every part of how this week feels.

Address

7633 Ganser Way, Suite 200
Madison, WI
53719

Telephone

+16086883200

Website

http://heartcounselingllc.com/

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