Mischelle Zielke Master's in Clinical Mental Health

Working with parents is the best! I truly see how effective change can take place in a family once I get the opportunity to help parents look for patterns of behavior, understand communication styles, set routines in place, and/or share psychoeducation regarding children's lifespan and behaviors. Parents have so much hopeful and helpful outlook once they see these stages/ages/phases with new information.

Clients coming to see me while experiencing grief and loss are typically in such a tender space. Typically, grief and loss is not something that people generally get to experience often or frequently enough to know "how to" process grief/loss in healthy ways. We will learn the stages of grief and loss and ways to communicate what is being experienced. Lastly, clients learn how to use healthy coping strategies during this time.

I have worked with the full life span of clients and their parents who struggle with ADHD. I love working with these clients! Their brains are fast, curious, and fun! I enjoy teaching and sharing strategies to understand the ADHD brain and common functions that are likely impairing some category of function in their lives including, employment stability, relationship consistency, time management and/or impulsive behaviors.

I meet clients where they are at from the first intake session of counseling. While I will offer a variety of goals and starting places, I will start where the client reports feeling ready to start. Readiness for change and a client feeling a strong rapport with the therapist is deeply important in the work that I do professionally. Healing and growth can occur in this environment.

As a clinician, I enjoy teaching clients ways that their brain and body are working, looking for thought patterns and behavioral patterns that are being practiced. I will reflect this to clients in session and give time for insight to come. Gently challenging clients and directing them towards healthy patterns is a professional responsibility.

Wearing a Solution Focused lens is such a strength based approach therapeutically. I have seen the positive impact of assisting clients with setting goals in therapy so that they communicate with me what they want from this counseling journey. We turn that information into realistic goals that can be accomplished in session.