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Our Therapy Services

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Therapy Offerings for Victims of Crime in Milwaukee

At HIR Wellness Institute, we believe every survivor of violence deserves access to high-quality, culturally grounded, trauma-informed mental health care—without barriers. That is why all of our therapy and healing services are completely free of charge.

 

Our no-cost to victims therapy services and approaches are informed by our namesake, Healing Intergenerational Roots, it means healing with the understanding that the present always exists from the past, and it has shaped who we are. We must learn from our past and shared collective stories, understand how to navigate our current stressors, and identify that our strengths and resilience go beyond the individual. We offer integrated medicines that engage with ancestral, cultural, and traditional ways. All services are curated to support your healing in succession.

Our Approach

Modalities: Trauma and Healing-Informed, & Culturally Responsive Practices

  • Community Activated Medicine™-Informed

  • Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT)

  • Talk Therapy (i.e., CBT, DBT, ACT, TF-Mindfulness)

  • Comprehensive Integrative & Interdisciplinary Therapies (Occupational Therapy + Art Therapy + Talk Therapy + Culturally-informed healing practices)

  • Attachment and relationally based therapies

  • Historical Trauma & Intergenerational healing-Informed therapies

  • Expressive Arts & Somatic sessions

  • Body Movement & Function-Based Occupational Therapy sessions

  • Brainspotting sessions

  • HeartMath®

  • Emotion Freedom Technique (EFT) sessions

  • Ask for other healing and trauma-informed approaches that we offer!

Reasons for Seeking Services

Experienced trauma, violence, or have a history of intergenerational trauma:

  • Sexual Assault (SA)

  • Domestic Violence (DV)

  • Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

  • Stalking​

  • Sex Trafficking

  • Community Violence

  • School Violence

  • Homicide​

  • Suicide

  • Loss by overdose

  • Complex Grief

Previous diagnosis or curious about diagnosis:

  • ADHD & Neurodivergency

  • Autism

  • Sensory Processing Disorders

  • Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

  • Eating Disorders

  • ​Anxiety Disorders

  • Depressive Disorders

    • Bipolar I & II

    • Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)

    • Acute Depression

  • Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD)

  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

  • Complex and Developmental Trauma

  • Attachment Disorders

  • Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

  • Adjustment Disorders

Unsettled sensations and feelings:

  • Anxiety

  • Low mood, depressed states

  • Restlessness

  • Overwhelm

  • Feels like it’s happening again

  • Grief and loss

  • Intense mood swings

  • Impulsivity

  • Easily distracted, lack of focus, fogginess

  • Extreme fatigue, tiredness, exhaustion

  • Over eating, not eating, forgetting to eat, struggles with eating

  • Tightness in body, jaw, or throat

  • Headaches, tension

  • Tearfulness, crying without knowing why, overwhelm with sudden sadness

  • Relationship struggles, distrust, anxiety with disruptive, violent, chaotic, confusing, on and off cycles, doing more than you feel is fair, etc.

  • Substances misuse with drugs, alcohol, prescription drugs

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Counseling

HIR Wellness Institute offers culturally grounded, trauma-informed individual counseling to victims of crime and underserved relatives in Milwaukee.

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Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy (OT) helps helps people of all ages perform meaningful daily activities and improve overall wellbeing and function

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Art Therapy

Art Therapy provides a powerful and transformative and expressive approach to healing for survivors of violence of all ages.

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Programs

Led by licensed mental health professionals and trained interns, these groups provide a safe and nurturing environment for healing.

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Theraputic Groups

Focused on trauma-informed practices and effective coping strategies, our groups offer survivors of violence the space to process their experiences, heal, and receive compassionate care. 

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