Our Services

Psychotherapy (therapy, talk therapy, counseling) is a form of treatment for managing/healing various problems/disorders by talking with a licensed clinician. The key to helping change behaviors or overcome challenges rests in the personal collaboration between clinician and client(s).

During psychotherapy you learn about your condition, symptoms, your moods, feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. There are many approaches and therapeutic focuses to treatment. Each clinician will tailor the work to your specific needs, hopes, and goals.

You and your therapist will assess and evaluate your condition and needs, then create a treatment plan, including goals for your work together. We offer:

• Individual Therapy
• Dyadic/ Couples Therapy
• Family Therapy
• Group Therapy

Elite Cognition has therapists who specialize and/or utilize components of the following approaches:

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Art Therapy
• Attachment Based Therapy
• BIPOC Counseling
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)
• Culturally Sensitive Therapy
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
• Eclectic Mix
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Experiential and Exposure Therapy
• Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)
• Gottman Method for Couples
• Humanistic Therapy
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
• Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• LGBTQIA+ Affirming Therapy
• Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT)
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
• Motivational Interviewing (MI)
• Music Therapy
• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
• Person-Centered Therapy
• Play Therapy
• Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
• Reality Therapy
• Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
• Somatic Therapy/ Experiencing
• Structural Family Therapy (SFT)
• Trauma-Focused Cognition Behavior Therapy (TFCBT)
• Yoga Therapy
• And more

Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services (PRS) are skill building in nature and designed to help those with mental health struggles, diagnoses, or disabilities increase their functioning so that they can be successful and satisfied in their day to day environments (home, community, work, school, etc).

NOTE: PRS is NOT mentoring services. It is therapeutic work WITH the client and considered a medical appointment, in the same manner direct psychotherapy sessions are.

We offer the following Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services at Elite Cognition:

Individual and/or Family Psychoeducation

• This service is all about learning. PF services provide education, information, and resources about your specific mental health condition, diagnoses, or symptoms directly to you or to immediate family/natural supports in your life. To include: ongoing guidance about managing/coping with mental health and or substance abuse issues, social and/or emotional support for dealing with mental health (or AOA), medications, purpose behind skills.
• PF may be provided individually or in groups
• For minors, services may also be provided to parents/ guardians for the direct benefit of the client, to include anticipatory guidance. Anticipatory Guidance is a proactive, developmentally based counseling technique which may be used to minimize situational or recurring crises. Provided to assist parents/guardians in understanding expected growth and development of children, as well as how their child’s mental health status may influence timelines. Specifically, information about benefits of healthy lifestyle and practices that promote injury/disease/and other prevention.)

Individual Skill Development & Enhancement (ISDE) 

• This service is all about skill building. Possible concentration areas are: communication, interpersonal skills, problem solving, decision making, self-regulation, conflict resolution, training/management in daily living skills (personal care, household tasks, finances, transportation, shopping, parenting, etc.), or accessing & connecting to community resources and services.
• For minors, services may also focus on improving integration into or interaction with (family, school, community, social networks, friends, etc). As well as, assisting natural supports/caregivers in gaining skills to assist the minor.
• May be provided by: Modeling, Scaffolded release of responsibility, Monitoring, Shadowing, Supervision, Assistance, Cuing, etc.

Physical Health Monitoring (PHM) 

• This service focuses on how the mental health (or substance use) of the client impacts his/her ability to manage their physical heath. Clients are educated on the mind-body connection (somatic awareness). Activities related to monitoring, management, assistance, movement training, and identification of physical health symptoms may be explored.
• Monitoring physical health medications & treatments, developing healthy management skills, or nutritional eating habits may also be included.

Wellness Management

• This service includes empowering clients to manage their mental health (substance use) issues, helping them develop goals, teaching them to make informed treatment decisions. May include: attending physician’s appointments, behavioral tailoring, relapse prevention, resilience training, treatment strategies, social support building, increasing engagement in treatment and developing positive coping strategies.

Sports and Performance Coaching

• This service provides structured mental health support to athletes of all ages in a structured and practical way. It is designed to help improve focus, confidence, resilience, consistency, work through mental blocks, performance anxiety, recovery after injury or in-the-moment mistakes.
• Competitors face pressure, expectations, and emotional challenges that can disrupt even well-trained athletes. Mental coaching can help strengthen the person’s response to these barriers by work grounded in mental skills training and stress management.
• Work through body image pressures/concerns, self-criticism, and/or stigma about athlete mental health.

Our Groups typically run in 8, 10 or 12 week cycles, once weekly for between 1-2 hours, depending on the program. All Group parameters are clearly outlined on group’s flyer, as well as what that group is all about. Topics range from things like art therapy, DBT, IDD in mental health, and role-play skills work.

See Our Current Groups Here

Diagnostic Evaluations involve front end data gathering, assessment, and often interviewing. This data supports the preparation of a summary evaluation and/or plan to support a client whose mental illness, may require outside supports. This process finds strengths, weaknesses, evaluates knowledge and skills.

Evaluations are primarily used to assess emotional wellbeing, assess risk of harm to self/others, guide treatment, guide intervention or guide therapeutic planning.

NOTE: We do not complete comprehensive Neuropsychological testing.

Elite Cognition conducts the following Diagnostic Evaluations and/or Plans:

• ALSUP (Assessment of Lagging Skills and Unsolved Problems)
• BSP (Behavioral Support Plan)
• CANS (Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths)
• Cognitive and Developmental Screeners
• FBA (Functional Behavioral Assessment)
• LEP (Law Enforcement Protocol)
• Safety Protocols (Safe behavioral and communication protocols based on distress stages for home, community, school, other)
• SRA (Suicidal Risk Assessment) with Crisis Plan, Safety Plan and/and or Safety Contract documentation
• Others based on consultation with provider.

Family Consultation & Advocacy Services focus on individualized, child-centered work, in collaboration with the child’s parent and/or caregiver(s). All consultation & advocacy services include an initial outreach call with a provider. This is a free, 15-minute consultation to explore services, obtain a general overview of presenting needs, concerns or goals, and to determine if we are a good fit for the services you are seeking.

NOTE: Consultation & advocacy services are advisory in nature and should NOT replace legal advice from licensed special education attorneys, nor diagnosis from a licensed mental health neuropsychologist or other licensed mental health professional. We do NOT diagnose PDA or other mental health conditions.

We offer the following Consultation Services at Elite Cognition:

Consultation Services are often short term in nature; typically, 1 – 3 sessions.

• Parent/Caregiver Consultation provides brief, focused support, discussion, assistance, and/or problem-solving with parent/caregiver(s). This can include learning about a particular diagnosis, collaboration on support strategies, behavioral symptom exploration, garnering professional specialist advice, or exploration of educational systems to name a few.
• Documentation Review and Follow Up Consultation consists of submitting documentation (neuropsychological report, IEP, 504 or other) for review, followed by a meeting with the provider. This can be helpful in gaining understanding of a diagnosis, parts of the report/plan, or seeking a thought-partner to discuss areas of you may be questioning. Follow up might include exploration of characteristics, additional accommodations, goal modification or the like.
• Educator Consultation provides focused support, discussion, assistance, and problem-solving with school personnel. This can include specific staff training on a diagnosis, collaboration on individual student cases, or support with appropriate accommodation on school-based educational plans.
• Other as determined between client: provider. Reach out if you believe we may be of help to discuss.

We offer the following Advocacy Services at Elite Cognition:

Advocacy Services are client/family centered support offered to parent/caregiver(s) navigating school systems. Grounded in collaboration, clarity and informed decision making. Families may need support to feel their voice is being heard, understand the nuances of educational systems or processes, a thought partner, and more.

Advocacy may focus on protecting a child’s access, rights and needs within a school system in general education, special education or other; such as navigating an educational assessment, 504, IEP or behavioral intervention plan.

Advocacy support is aimed at increasing access to education via raising awareness, bringing ideas forward, validating the child/families experience, sharing knowledge, helping families make informed decisions and take action to bring about positive changes for their child.

Each of the following services may be completed in isolation or combined.

• Advocacy Documentation Review consists of submitting documentation (neuropsychological report, IEP, 504 or other) for review and feedback, followed by a meeting with the provider. The provider will review all documentation prior to meeting with you, using the lens discussed in the exploration call. The provider will work, as a thought partner with you, to provide meaningful feedback and/or next steps to best support your child related to the documentation submitted.
• Advocacy Meeting Preparation consists of parent/caregiver(s) meeting with the provider, prior to any formal school-based meeting, to review current needs or areas of concern. This may consist of planning specific talking points, going over potential process timelines, and/or reviewing appropriate documentation.
• Advocacy Meeting consists of the provider attending any formal school-based meeting as direct support to parent/caregiver(s). Support during meetings is dependent on the client, which can look like providing guidance during meetings, asking pre-planned questions, or being a silent supporter.
• Advocacy Post-Meeting Debrief consists of meeting with the provider after any formal school-based meeting to go over information from the meeting. This can look like reviewing information from the meeting, going over process timelines, or problem-solving next steps for school support. This may also be reviewing documentation that was drafted in the meeting together for clarity and informed decision making prior to finalization of documentation.
• Other as determined between client: provider. Reach out if you believe we may be of help to discuss.

Training Professional Development

Currently we offer the following externally contacted services:

• Managing Threatening Confrontations (MTC). Help caregivers understand, prevent, and respond to challenging behavior. Created by Paul White, MTC identifies 5 stages of behavior and provides a matching support strategy for each stage. Adheres to WI lest restrictive measures guidelines as put out by WI DSPS.
• STRONG TEAMING — Exploring and Creating Staff Core Values, Mission and Vision
• School Based Professional Development for Staff/Teams
  • Introduction to PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance profile of Autism) and high leverage educator initial steps to navigation.
  • PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance profile of Autism); beyond an introduction for Educators
  • Shifting the paradigm- supporting trauma survivors and neurodivergent children using a bottom up approach.
  • Student behavior through a nervous system support lens.
  • Other – reach out to see if we can craft a great PD for you/ your team.