MENTAL WELLNESS COUNSELING

A Northern Michigan Counseling Practice: With locations in Traverse City and Manistee

 

You’re here because you know that life can be better. Through counseling, we’ll help you identify how best to make progress toward creating a life of wellness. Our mental health therapists take a whole health approach to help individuals, couples and families find balance. Click on ‘Our Counselors’ Tab or read about our clinicians to find the right therapist for you. We are really glad you are here.

We know it takes a while to decide you need counseling. No matter what that final thing was that made you come here, we want to help.  Our therapists offer face to face, virtual or phone sessions to best meet your needs and serve clients throughout Northern Michigan.

 

If you’re ready to start a better life, we’d love to join you in this journey!

For more information or to schedule a session please CONTACT US

MEET THE WELLNESS TEAM

See the quick profiles below or client the ‘Our Counselors’ TAB or read about our clinicians TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR MENTAL HEALTH THERAPISTS

To inquire about our services call us at 231-714-0282

Referrals can be send via fax at 231-216-7921

Nicole Ball

Nicole Ball

Counselor and Owner of Mental Wellness Counseling
Nicole works with clients that are dealing with anxiety and want quick results to get back to life. She specializes in helping individuals working through transitions and takes a compassionate and holistic approach to building coping skills to find more peace in life. Nicole is the owner of Mental Wellness Counseling.
Alana Zacharias

Alana Zacharias

Mental Health Therapist
Alana specializes in working with those who are struggling with addiction, anxiety, adjustment, depression, and LGBTQIA+/identity-related concerns. Alana seeks to empower individuals to create lasting and meaningful changes in their lives.
Lauren Hybza

Lauren Hybza

Mental Health Therapist
Lauren believes that therapy is a tool to inspire self-growth. She specializes in helping individuals and couples cope with anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships issues, self harm and life transitions.
Emmy Hendry

Emmy Hendry

Mental Health Therapist
Emmy believes that your well-being relies on achieving balance in all aspects of your life. Emmy specializes in trauma; specifically sexual, violence, and grief. She has extensive experience working with children, teens, families, LGBTQIA+ community; as well as working with individuals struggling with addiction and recovery. Emmy is passionate about helping individuals process and work through their traumas, anxiety, depression, and various mental health symptoms.
Jeanice Knight-Bogatz

Jeanice Knight-Bogatz

Mental Health Counselor, EMDR Certified Therapist, and Brainspotting Certified Therapist
Jeanice has extensive experience providing clinical services to children, adolescents, individual adults, and families. Her hope is for clients to achieve wellness through healthy integration of life elements, heal from past trauma, and become empowered to overcome anxiety, depression, life stressors and grief. Jeanice also offers EMDR and Brain Spotting Therapy.
Heidi Burgess

Heidi Burgess

Mental Health Therapist Clinical Intern
Heidi believes that living a healthy life requires balance. Creating balance between the physical, emotional, and spiritual experiences in life allows us to embrace our wholeness as human beings. Heidi has experience working with athletes, eating disorders, addiction, codependency, childhood trauma affecting both child and parents, suicide, self harm, miscarriage and infertility, grief, chronic pain, chronic illness, adjustment to life after injury, depression, and anxiety. She works with women of all ages, teens, and young adults.
Christina Walsh

Christina Walsh

Mental Health Therapist

Christina (She/Her) takes a holistic whole health approach to guide those looking to find
balance and stability within many areas of their lives including self-worth, identity, family,
relationships, careers, school, substance recovery, and mental health symptom management.

Theresa Carey

Theresa Carey

Mental Health Therapist
Theresa uses a therapeutic approach grounded in mind/body theory. She assists those in crisis, feeling fragile, facing a difficult decision, addressing habits that no longer serve, struggling with anxiety, abandonment, depression, anger, domestic violence, loss and grief, life transitions and recovery from trauma.
Steve Greenman

Steve Greenman

Mental Health Counselor

Steve’s specialty centers around the topics of addiction, families in difficult situations, cognitive awareness of bettering oneself and burdens from anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and working with couples.

Emily Hale

Emily Hale

Intake Coordinator

Emily is the voice on the other end of the phone when you call to schedule an appointment or inquire about counseling services. One of her favorite things to do is to help anxious people get their questions answered quickly, and provide a safe space for patients to voice their concerns and get the help they need. You can reach emily by calling 231-714-0282 or emailing her at intake@mentalwellnesscounseling.com

She looks forward to talking to you, and to helping to match you and your family to the best therapist to meet your needs.

Amy Loeb

Amy Loeb

Mental Health Therapist
Amy utilizes an eclectic approach that often includes psychoeducation (knowledge is power), Polyvagal Theory (nervous-system-specific support & instruction) and Internal Family Systems (self-awareness) to help her clients navigate their challenges and find relief. Amy is also trained to facilitate EMDR to help her clients process past traumatic events.
Julia Nelson

Julia Nelson

Mental Health Therapist

She is a faith based counselor, LGBTQIA+ ally, and specializes in grief counseling and relational challenges for families living with medical complexities or disabilities. Julia works with adolescent youth and their families as well as couples and families working through life transitions.

Amanda Gatiss

Amanda Gatiss

Mental Health Therapist

Amanda works with those struggling to manage anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD, bipolar disorder, interpersonal relationships, self-esteem, and anger management. She specializes in working with adolescents, young adults, and middle-aged adults. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, aspects of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Person-Centered Planning to help you tackle your treatment goals head on.

Marilyn Fitzgerald

Marilyn Fitzgerald

Mental Health Therapist
Dr. Marilyn Fitzgerald has long believed that creating a safe, compassionate, confidential environment, will enhance the individual’s ability to be vulnerable, take risks and benefit from interpersonal growth. She works with individuals, families and couples.
Dani Burmeister

Dani Burmeister

Mental Health Therapist
Dani works with older teens, young adults, and adults who are struggling with mood and anxiety disorders, life transitions, stress management, LGBTQIA+ Community, trauma/PTSD, and substance use disorders. Dani’s primary approach to counseling is a use of techniques and strategies from Person-Centered Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Through these lenses, Dani believes we are able to explore the individual from a holistic viewpoint. Dani believes that the client is an expert in their own life and that she is there to guide and facilitate conversation to further develop a sense of self.
Jeannine Wilkinson

Jeannine Wilkinson

Mental Health Therapist
Jeannine is a virtual therapist specializing in work with teens, adolescents, and young adults. Jeannine helps this population manage anger, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, cognitive impairments, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, emotional impairments, autism, and impulse control concerns.
Erin Johnson

Erin Johnson

Mental Health Therapist
Erin is a virtual therapist who specializes in work with children, families and individuals who are experiencing anxiety, depression, grief and loss, child/teen/adolescent concerns and family issues. Erin works with those in life transitions, as well as those working through past and current trauma.
Bobbi Harding

Bobbi Harding

Mental Health Therapist
Bobbi believes that committing to path of overall wellness and self-growth is the start of a new life. Bobbi is a virtual therapist who works with at risk youth, transitioning youth, pregnancy, parenting, anxiety, depression, medical maintenance, health related illness, end of life, survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, childhood trauma, life transitions, and a variety of other mental health conditions.
Michelle Loeffler-Rohraff

Michelle Loeffler-Rohraff

Mental Health Therapist
Michelle specializes in work with young children and their families with issues related to anxiety, depression, trauma, attachment and emotional regulation.
Rebecca AlSharea

Rebecca AlSharea

Billing Specialist

Rebecca is available for all your billing needs and questions as her goal is to make the financial side of your mental wellness completely seamless while providing you with the care and compassion you deserve.

Jessie Kilpatrick

Jessie Kilpatrick

Mental Health Therapist

Jessie works with individuals ages 5 and up, but she focuses on elementary-age children. She specializes in anxiety, depression, behavioral concerns both in school and at home, family issues, self-esteem, and struggles faced by LGBTQIA+ individuals. She uses play therapy, mindfulness, self-care, and grounding techniques to help clients express themselves and to create a “toolbox” to help them cope with whatever struggles they may be facing.

Phil LaCourse, MA. LLP, CAADC, CCS-R

Phil LaCourse, MA. LLP, CAADC, CCS-R

Mental Health Therapist

Phil works with patients with co occurring issues of mental health and substance use disorders. Additionally, he works very well with couples struggling with relationship and communication problems. He also specializes in working with adolescents and young adults, court systems, testing and diagnostics and re-unification of children into family systems.

Samantha Garcia

Samantha Garcia

Mental Health Counselor

Samantha works with those experiencing anxiety, depression and family or relationship conflicts.  She also works with those who are dealing with the complexities of caring and advocating for loved ones with disabilities. Samantha also works with couples who are seeking efforts for better communication in their relationship.

Jenna Bradfield

Jenna Bradfield

Mental Health Therapist

Jenna specializes in working closely with children and has experience in supporting children who are in the foster care system, have witnessed domestic violence, are struggling with issues related to self-esteem and abandonment, and displaying aggressive or anxious behaviors. Jenna believes that all children are inherently worthy of feeling safe and loved.

John Boonstra

John Boonstra

Mental Health Therapist
John uses a person-centered and strengths based approach to his work with children, teens, and adults addressing anxiety,
depression, self-harm, prevention, trauma, anger, and life transitions. John brings years of experience to
his practice having worked in various fields from juvenile justice, suicide prevention, hospital settings,
and experiential groups.
Sydney Poineau

Sydney Poineau

Mental Health Therapist
Sydney works with individual’s experiencing anxiety, depression and low self-esteem. She specializes in providing services to those struggling with addiction, substance use disorder and providing support to those finding and maintaining their path to recovery.
Angela Merriman

Angela Merriman

Mental Health Therapist
Angela works with ages 13 and up, as well as adults, approaching treatment with a focus on individuality and recognizing the client as the expert on their life. She specializes in treating symptoms of depression, anxiety, self-harm behaviors, and body-focused repetitive behaviors. She also works in substance use treatment, supporting individuals on their journey to recovery, advocating for community acceptance, and teaching shame resilience.
Marney Winfield

Marney Winfield

Mental Health Therapist Clinical Intern
Marney specializes in working with clients with substance use disorder, anxiety, depression, and those facing pivotal life changes using person-centered, strength-based, goal-oriented, and solution-focused approaches.

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