Our Team
Ruchita Ervin, MS, LPC, CSAC
Co-founder/ CEO/ Service Director/ Therapist
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Ruchita has been practicing mental health and substance abuse counseling since 2014. She has worked in sober living environments, 30-day substance use treatment programs, medication-assisted treatment (MAT), and outpatient clinics. Ruchita has provided counseling services to ages 8+, with evidence-based approaches such as CBT, REBT, and Motivational Interviewing. She currently provides therapy 1:1, group therapy, and clinical supervision.
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Ruchita has been practicing mental health and substance abuse counseling since 2014. She has worked in sober living environments, 30-day substance use treatment programs, medication-assisted treatment (MAT), and outpatient clinics. Ruchita has provided counseling services to ages 8+, with evidence-based approaches such as CBT, REBT, and Motivational Interviewing. She currently provides therapy 1:1, group therapy, and clinical supervision.
Brock Schultz, MS, LPC
Therapist
Brock has been providing mental health services in the Madison area since 2015. He meets clients where they are to address concerns from a place of collaboration and transparency. He helps them explore their current lives, past experiences, and intersecting identities within the context of the many systems that society places us in. This allows the cultivation of fresh insights and expanded awareness. He aids them in mobilizing current strengths, developing new skills, and applying fresh strategies to create meaningful change. He frequently draws on interventions based in CBT, DBT, narrative therapy, family systems, Motivational Interviewing, and interpersonal process. His specialties include depression, anxiety, life transitions, sleep, trauma, and sexuality.
Brock has been providing mental health services in the Madison area since 2015. He meets clients where they are to address concerns from a place of collaboration and transparency. He helps them explore their current lives, past experiences, and intersecting identities within the context of the many systems that society places us in. This allows the cultivation of fresh insights and expanded awareness. He aids them in mobilizing current strengths, developing new skills, and applying fresh strategies to create meaningful change. He frequently draws on interventions based in CBT, DBT, narrative therapy, family systems, Motivational Interviewing, and interpersonal process. His specialties include depression, anxiety, life transitions, sleep, trauma, and sexuality.
Ramona Charles, MS
She is a passionate and empathetic psychoeducation provider with strong counseling abilities and an understanding of the impact that negative experiences can have on one’s well-being. She has experience leading clients through challenges with depression, anxiety, work/life balance, stress management, and managing other negative emotional responses. Through clinical experience, compassion, and empathy, she supports and assists those willing to make a positive difference in their lives. Ramona prides herself in providing a safe and supportive space, to work side by side to overcome challenges, traumas, and barriers. Specialize in providing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to help clients identify personal and interpersonal skill to help negative cycles (with some DBT and Emotionally Focused techniques as well), she is fully committed to listening and offering best professional practices to help client go from challenge to change.
Katelyn Hirt, BS, SAC-IT
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Katelyn has been working in Behavioral Health for 7 years, with experience in emergency departments, residential crisis units, community settings, and outpatient settings. Her work has been mainly with adults, and she has extensive experience with people in crisis and in culturally specialized programs catered to BIPOC. Her primary treated modalities are Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Seeking Safety, Mindfulness, and Integrative Therapy techniques. She specializes in Substance Use Disorder treatment, with an emphasis on distress tolerance and emotion regulation. She is LGBTQIA2S+ friendly!
Katelyn has been working in Behavioral Health for 7 years, with experience in emergency departments, residential crisis units, community settings, and outpatient settings. Her work has been mainly with adults, and she has extensive experience with people in crisis and in culturally specialized programs catered to BIPOC. Her primary treated modalities are Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Seeking Safety, Mindfulness, and Integrative Therapy techniques. She specializes in Substance Use Disorder treatment, with an emphasis on distress tolerance and emotion regulation. She is LGBTQIA2S+ friendly!
Tige Pollard, MS
Tige Pollard is a compassionate and dedicated provider with over 20 years of experience in the field of mental health in the Janesville, Beloit, and Madison area working with children and adults. He is committed to helping individuals learn skills to help them cope with their daily stressors, offering a safe and supportive space for healing and growth. With a warm and empathetic approach, Tige specializes in treating anxiety, depression, behavioral, academic, and relationship issues. His therapeutic style is integrative, drawing from evidence-based modalities such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Person-Center Therapy, and Solution-Focus Therapy. Tige believes that every person controls the narrative to their story and he tailors his therapeutic interventions to meet the specific needs and goals of each client. His goal is to empower individuals to gain insight, develop coping skills, and build resilience, ultimately fostering positive change in their lives.
Ashley Barry, M.S, LPC - IT
Ashley is an empathetic and dedicated therapist with strong counseling abilities with extensive training in trauma therapy and substance abuse counseling. Ashley believes counseling is a professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education, personal and professional goals.
Ashley makes use of evidenced based interventions to address developmental, mental, emotional and behavioral concerns to restore wellness in others through empowerment and advocacy.
Ashley is passionate about helping clients
identify mental, emotional, and behavioral concerns, develop the skills to effectively cope with those presenting concerns, and work towards establishing a stronger sense of self.
Ashley utilizes the therapeutic relationship as a foundation to provide direction for those she works with. Ashley tailors her interventions based on her client's needs to incorporate evidenced based methods which are inspired by trauma informed models. Using a trauma informed approach, she is able to help clients better understand themselves, foster responsibility, esteem, and independence and address the unique concerns of those she is working with.