Sondercove Wellness

01/05/2026

✨ 2025 at Sondercove Wellness ✨

As we step into 2026, we want to pause and reflect on what was built—together.

In 2025, Sondercove Wellness served 127 community members through 2,445 moments of connection, care, and consistency. We became a team of 22 providers, including 2 licensed professionals, without losing sight of who we are or why this work exists.

Our growth was intentional.
It was rooted in lived experience, cultural relevance, and the belief that care should feel human—not transactional.

We are a Black-led, women-led organization made up of providers who bring lived experience navigating mental health and substance use challenges, housing instability and homelessness, justice-system involvement and re-entry, intimate partner violence, and parenting within complex systems. This is a space where lived experience is treated as expertise, and where education and experience learn from one another.

What we’re most proud of is how we grew:
• By hiring people for who they are, not how well they perform professionalism rooted in traditional norms
• By building an ecosystem where peers support peers and clinicians collaborate rather than dominate
• By refusing deficit-based narratives
• By choosing cultural relevance over convenience
• By choosing sustainability over speed

As we move through 2026, our focus is on deepening impact, strengthening sustainability, and continuing to build care that feels safe, affirming, and rooted in trust.

Thank you to every community member, provider, partner, and supporter who made this possible.
We’re proud of what’s been built—and we’re just getting started.

💜
— Sondercove Wellness

12/15/2025

This is for those who understand that supporting others is not about fixing, rescuing, or rushing outcomes. It’s about presence. It’s about honoring lived experience. It’s about recognizing that people already carry wisdom about their own lives, and our role is to create space where that wisdom can surface, strengthen, and guide what comes next.

If you’re someone who appreciate our organizational values, our intention and is committed to doing this work in a way that feels human and sustainable.

We’d love to hear from you.

📧 Send your resume and cover letter to: connect@sondercovewellness.com

And if someone comes to mind while reading this, please feel free to share.

12/15/2025

The community trusts the work we're doing at Sondercove Wellness so, our referrals are growing.

This role is for someone who understands that housing means stability, dignity, and often the foundation for healing. We’re looking for people who bring skill, patience, and a deep understanding of the systems that impact folks navigating housing instability, while remaining grounded in relationship-centered, culturally responsive practice.

If you have experience in housing navigation, skills development, and supporting people through complex systems, and you believe in honoring people as the experts of their own lives, we’d love to hear from you.

📌 Position: Housing Specialist
📧 Send your resume and cover letter to: connect@sondercovewellness.com

Please share with someone who might feel called to this work.

12/15/2025

We’re growing and we’re hiring Peer and Parent Peer Specialists at Sondercove Wellness.

If you’re a Certified Peer Specialist or Certified Parent Peer Specialist in Wisconsin and feel called to support people through lived experience, relationship-centered care, and culturally grounded practice, we’d love to connect.

This work is for folks who value autonomy, dignity, and meeting people where they are, without judgment, without rushing, and without trying to “fix” anyone. We believe peer support is powerful because it’s human, honest, and rooted in shared understanding.

📍 Wisconsin
📧 Apply or inquire: connect@sondercovewellness.com

Please feel free to share this with someone who might feel at home doing this work.

12/11/2025

🎉✨ Help us celebrate Dani Bradley today!

Please join me in wishing a very happy birthday to someone who brings so much depth, compassion, and brilliance into every space she enters.

Dani, your presence is grounding. Your insight is powerful. And the way you move through the world, leading with empathy, curiosity, and heart, is something truly special. You make our work better. You make our team stronger. And you make the people around you feel seen and supported in ways that matter.

I hope today pours back into you the same warmth and kindness you give so freely. You deserve rest, joy, celebration, and every blessing this new year of life will bring.

We appreciate you more than you know.

12/11/2025

⁉️ I’ve got a question

Nothing prepared me to show up for men in this work that I am deeply committed to. Especially not the men that have lived through isolation, dehumanization, constant surveillance, and systems that treated you as a threat. Definitely not those who experienced criminalization, generational trauma, being misunderstood or stereotyped, feeling unheard or dismissed, forced compliance under systems, lack of privacy or autonomy, emotional shutdown as survival, grief that never had a place to land, betrayal by institutions/people who promised to “support,” hypervigilance, shame attached to asking for support, or being told to “man up” rather than feel.

What I have learned is that safety is not always obvious and it sometimes will never feel accessible. That some men shut down when they hear statements like… “Let’s talk.” “You need…” “What happened?” or “We’re just trying to help.” I experience this first hand through my son.

I realized today that men often times dont want conversation. Presence, action-oriented tasks, and silence with a side of reliability is it! Literally!

So I began asking myself What are men afraid support my cost them? And was only able to identify a few things and perhaps I am wrong. I am a woman so I dont assume I am correct or that I know. I came up with loss of dignity, privacy, control, PRIDE!, emotional stability, and the survival identity that they’ve worked so hard to build.

With all of these thoughts and possible realization that may resonate for some and not for others, I still feel stuck and unsure.

Maybe this isn’t the correct question. I imagine it’s a start.

What do you/he need in order to trust a provider?c

12/11/2025

Thank you for supporting the work we’re doing.

Empowering communities through dynamic workshops, peer support, and expert consultation to drive positive change and recovery. 💡💙

12/11/2025

I took what I knew and reflected on what I’d experienced to develop a team of professionals that doesn’t strive to have all the answers, yet carries the gumption, tenacity, and willpower to grow alongside you.

Our provider family is made up of people who bring a level of insight, grit, and lived expertise that traditional systems can’t manufacture.

We collectively come from real adversity, growing up in it, raising children through it, and breaking generational cycles in real time. We survived while confronting isms, bias, and oppressive practices. Some of us understand reentry from residential stays, incarceration, treatment programs, and the long road of rebuilding a life that didn’t pause for you.

These are providers who have stretched dollars, beaten the odds, and fought against stories meant to shrink them. Providers who have lived through challenges designed to push them backwards until their backs touched the wall.

If you ever want to understand why Sondercove is expanding, why our impact is deep, and why individuals and families trust us, the answer is simple:

We know firsthand what people are going through!

12/02/2025

✨ This Giving Tuesday, I’m inviting you to join me in supporting youth across Dane County. Please take a moment to read and share our letter, together, we can expand hope and healing. 🥰

12/01/2025

Hello Community,

In the season of intentionally pausing to identify the things and people and experiences we are thankful for, I want to pause and speak directly to the heart of what makes Sondercove what it is, and that is YOU!

Thank you for trusting us, for letting us show up for you, and for allowing us to step into spaces of your life that are personal, layered, and sacred.

It takes strength to let someone in, especially when the weight you’re carrying feels deeply connected to your sense of safety, your ability to dream, and the future you’re trying to protect. Letting a stranger accompany you through challenges that have interrupted peace, tested stability, or made success feel out of reach… that is not small. It is brave. It is powerful. And it deserves to be acknowledged.

Every conversation, every moment you allow vulnerability, every time you name what hurts or what you hope for, you are actively choosing yourself. You are practicing resilience in a way that does not dismiss the harm you have experienced, but honors the fullness of who you are and who you are becoming.

Your stories, your identities, your families, your survival strategies, they are not problems to fix. They are proof of the ways you have continued to rise despite systems, circumstances, and histories that should have supported you better.

Thank you for allowing us to witness your healing.
Thank you for believing that taking this path with someone can make a difference. Thank you for choosing connection, even when isolation felt easier.

With gratitude beyond words,
Sondercove Wellness
Accompanying you in courage, compassion, and possibility.

11/20/2025

The Department of Education just told an entire workforce “Your degree doesn’t count.”

Let’s talk about it.

11/18/2025

🌿 Sondercove Wellness Is Hiring! 🌿

We haven’t been around long, and, we’re growing with intention, integrity, and a whole lot of heart. Our focus is simple: support our community through the good, the bad, the heavy, and the beautifully whimsical moments of life.

And now… We’re expanding our team. 💫

We are welcoming:
✨ Licensed Clinicians
✨ Certificate Holders
✨ Psychologists
✨ Prescribers
✨ Nurse Practitioners
✨ Graduate-Level Students in mental health programs

We’re still looking for
✨ Peer and Parent Peer Specialist
✨ Case Managers
✨ Skill Development Specialist
✨ Medication Management Providers
✨ Physical Health Providers

etc.

If you’re passionate about culturally relevant care…
If you value autonomy, compassion, and meeting people where they are…
If you want to be part of a team that honors lived experience and believes in multiple pathways to wellness…

We’d love to meet you.

Sondercove Wellness is building something intentional, community-centered, and deeply needed — and we hope you’ll join us.

📩 Interested? Send us your resume and coverletter to dominique@sondercovewellness.com