What I treat · Mood disorders · Wausau
Mood disorders therapy for Wausau, Wisconsin.
Mood disorders therapy for Wausau residents, with Wisconsin-licensed Amber Miller, MSed., LPC. Telehealth statewide, in-person at the Superior office. Most insurance accepted, including BadgerCare and Medicaid.
Wausau is the seat of Marathon County and the central-Wisconsin hub. Wausau and Northcentral Technical College students fit the standard pattern; telehealth from a Wausau or Schofield address works as well as in-person.
What Mood disorders therapy looks like
If depression has been the shape of your life for years rather than weeks, the label might not be depression. It might be persistent depressive disorder, sometimes called dysthymia. If you have spells of feeling great that turn out to be a problem of their own kind, the label might be bipolar or cyclothymic. The label matters because the work and the medication picture are different.
Mood-disorder therapy with me usually runs alongside a prescriber. I am an LPC, not a psychiatrist, so the medication piece happens elsewhere, but the therapy piece is most of where the day-to-day living happens.
How we work on it
Person-centered work holds the room. Cognitive behavioral skills come in for the daily mood-regulation work. Dialectical behavioral skills come in for the bigger swings. We track patterns across weeks, not days, so we can tell what is the disorder and what is just a hard Tuesday.
A mood disorder is a weather system, not a personality. The work is partly tracking the weather and partly building a house that holds up in it.
How sessions work for Wausau clients
Wausau is too far from the Superior office for regular in-person sessions, so this is a telehealth-only relationship. That works as well for this kind of work as in-person. We pick a regular weekly slot and keep it.
If you are at a college in or near Wausau
I see a lot of college and grad students from across Wisconsin. Telehealth from a dorm or apartment works the same way it works from home. The academic-calendar piece tends to bring its own rhythm to anxiety, depression, and ADHD work; the full angle is on the college student page.
Insurance and cost in Wausau
Wisconsin BadgerCare, Medicaid, Medicare, and most major commercial insurance in Wausau are in-network. Out-of-pocket is $125 per 50 minutes session. Full detail on the insurance and fees page.
What to do next
If this read like something you recognize, the next step is to schedule the consultation or intake session. The free 15 minutes consult gives us both a sense of whether we would work well together before you book the first paid session. Text, call, or use the form, whichever is easiest.