Meet your Therapists
Madison Chamberlain
I believe healing happens in relationship. The relationship we build together grounded in honesty, natural boundaries, and real communication becomes the model for what's possible in the rest of your life. Building trust between us and with yourself is the first step.
I work best with clients who feel stuck in cycles of anxiety, trauma, doubt, and who often feel disconnected from their bodies or sense of safety. They're seeking to release old patterns, regulate their nervous systems, and reclaim calm and control so they can move from simply surviving to living with confidence and clarity.
A key aspect to this journey is the practice of acceptance and forgiveness. Just as we extend compassion to others, it's crucial to extend that same kindness and understanding to ourselves. Having struggled with my own battles with anxiety, depression, body image struggles, and an eating disorder, I understand firsthand the importance of compassion and forgiveness toward yourself in overcoming mental health struggles.
I primarily use EMDR and a somatic, nervous system informed approach, tailored to what you're experiencing rather than a diagnosis on paper. In our first sessions, we'll map out what's actually happening in your body and patterns, then build a plan around that. Regulating your nervous system gives you a felt sense of what safety and connection actually feel like so you can recognize it, ask for it, and build it in your other relationships too. The work centers on the relationship between us as much as any technique.
LISW, LCSW
Cats
Reading
Baking
Greek Mythology
Favorite Things:
Sweats
Smiski
Sweet Treats
Fall/ Halloween
Ian Hulette
I am a multi-tour combat veteran, a recovered addict, and ever-growing human. I hope to get to know you!
The art of psychotherapy begins with the connection in the room. We may come from lives where we have never known co-regulation with another adult. The time with a therapist can be a relearning of methods and reacquisition of complex needs we’ve been missing all of our lives. And, not all therapy is “I’m broke and need fixed.” Sometimes, most times, it’s “I know I do this or that, and the people I care about most need me to be different.” I strive to create an environment that feels loaded with potential and growth. Here’s why:
I am a person, too. I have struggled, sometimes greatly in my life. During my worst and darkest, I have struggled with my self, my relationships, substances, and deep pain. I grew up in deep poverty in rural Indiana. Neglected and abused as a child, I had to find alternative ways to feel whole, deserving, and loved. Throughout my life, this led to poor decision and very low self-awareness. However, that pain began to define me in ways that did not align with the goodness within me. So, instead, I opted to change. Changing from rigid, tough, angry, bitter masculinity into where I am today was not easy and not quick. Today I strive to sit in a room with vulnerability and compassion and loving kindness. Today I am stronger than I have ever been. It only took changing everything that pain and suffering had taught me would defend me in what seemed like a terrifying and dangerous world.
In Buddhism, enlightenment does not secure you a life of ease and awareness from that point on. There are still thorns, unresolved grief, shame, and suffering in all shapes and sizes. I can’t help you avoid suffering and consequences. I can’t make the people in your life all stop and see your way is the best way. I can’t make your family different or your friends better. I can’t remove anxiety or shitty days. I can sit with you, go over those things, those relationships, those shitty days and offer a different perspective. A perspective that centers around how you reacted to those conditions, those moments, that could have been because of old wounds and old pains…that could have been just slightly different. Those small moments of change are a down payment on a future that is ripe with new conditions, less reactive and more responsive. A future ripe with peace and loving kindness.
Enlightenment, in a modern sense (and maybe in a traditional one), is a new way of seeing the world. I want to help you see less of yourself in every expectation and validation, and more of the wholeness of this world. I am happy to be with you on this path of new sight, a guide and sounding board to connect, to disagree, to laugh, to cry, and, most importantly, to learn from each other an even better way to live in this world as bright lights for the people we love and value.
Favorite Things:
Hockey (Blackhawks)
Golf
Reading
Exercise
Traveling
Video Games
Buddhism