Rachel Zentner ~ Central Wisconsin Counselor

During my Master’s program I worked in sexual assault victim services where I learned about how to sit quietly with trauma and believe survivors.  I also worked in an intensive outpatient program for children (day treatment) and learned about how there is a limit to what an individual hour can do for a child if the family isn’t also learning about healing. Upon completing my Master’s program, I began supervision hours for licensure in the treatment foster care system and learned so much about children and adolescents with mental health concerns and their placement in safe environments.  I also did family mental health evaluations for head start and offered treatment plans for families and the systems serving them.  I was offered a position to do individual psychotherapy upon completion of my supervised hours with a outpatient clinic and began to see the potential of one on one, consistent work with someone.  Due to a needed move and family expansion, I took a position on a Native American reservation providing therapy where I learned more about my privilege and ignorance in being raised in a white, racist, patriarchal world. From there, I began more individual work at a nonprofit clinic and also did some group work with men arrested fro domestic violence where I began to understand how violence begets violence and how we are never that far from where we came from.  Currently, I am enjoying contracting with a clinic in my area as well as running my own business… still going deep into how people come to find me and what kind of life they want.  I will promise to stay curious, interested and present on the journey of any work we do together.  

~ Rachel