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Healing Begins with Courage

Holistic mental health support for anxiety, trauma, relational problems, and spiritual wounding

Virtual & In-person Therapy for Wisconsin Residents

You’ve always been the one who shows up for everyone else. But lately? You’re exhausted in a way that rest doesn’t fix.

While you smile on the outside, inside you’re carrying a heavy weight that begs to be lifted.

If this is you— you’re in the right place.

Support for your healing journey

Individual Therapy: A Compassionate Space for Deep Healing
from $130.00

Whether you're navigating anxiety, trauma, spiritual harm, a major life transition, or just wanting to finally take time to understand your story, individual therapy offers a safe, steady space to explore what’s really going on beneath the surface.

This is for the capable, reflective woman who’s always been the strong one — but now feels:

  • Disconnected from herself

  • Emotionally drained, numb, exhausted, or overwhelmed

  • Stuck in cycles she can’t name or fix

  • Like she’s quietly falling apart inside

Together, we’ll explore the roots of your past that are shaping your present pain, so you can begin to move through it and live with greater freedom. Freedom and peace are possible!

Limited insurance coverage and reduced rate slots available. Varied Session Length Available (55, 90, 120 minutes to promote healing for the deep thinker and processor).

Group Therapy: Healing in Honest, Supportive Community
from $350.00

Shame begins to loosen its grip when we speak our stories aloud.

Mental health research shows true healing happens most fully within safe, supportive relationships. That’s why Courageous Healing offers group therapy—a powerful space to grow alongside others who understand you. Virtual groups provide a healing experience through honest reflection and connection.

Each group is thoughtfully facilitated to address your unique needs, combining psychoeducation, real conversation, and trauma-informed practices. You’ll learn new tools, hear relatable stories, and experience the power of showing up as you are—in a safe, supportive, and sacred space.

Group therapy reminds you that your story matters here.

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Extended Sessions & Therapy Intensives: Unhurried Space for Transformational Work
from $195.00

Go Deeper, Heal Faster

You’ve done the surface work. You’ve read the books, tried the coping tools, maybe even gone to therapy before—but something in you knows there’s still more to untangle. You’re ready for focused time, uninterrupted space, and a therapist who can help you get to the root.

Extended Sessions (90–120 minutes) and Therapy Intensives (1–3 days) offer that space. These personalized experiences are designed for women who are ready to move beyond weekly sessions and into deeper, more intentional healing.

Whether you’re processing complex trauma, betrayal, or a recent life event that’s left you shaken, this immersive format creates time to truly slow down, listen inward, and experience lasting change—without rushing back to the rest of life after 50 minutes.

This approach is especially supportive for reflective, deep-thinking, high-functioning women who’ve spent years keeping it all together while quietly falling apart inside. Here, there’s time to breathe, process, and begin again.

You don’t need years of therapy to feel whole again. You need focused time, safe connection, and guidance that helps you move through—not just talk about—your pain.

Hey, I’m Kristen

You’ve done the hard work of holding it all together — for everyone else.

Maybe you were the sensitive one, the responsible one, the one who learned early how to keep the peace and disappear when things got hard.

Or maybe you’re the one who learned to make herself small, so other’s wouldn’t be bothered or inconvenienced.

And maybe, you’ve spent your life caring for others, not minding at first, but have hit a wall when you find yourself wondering, “But who will just care for me sometimes?”

However you’ve navigated life thus far, now you’re finding it just isn’t working. Inside, you’re tired, disconnected, and wondering if anyone truly sees you.

I’m Kristen Humiston — an Advanced Practice Social Worker (APSW), Certified Trauma Professional, Certified Brainspotting Practitioner, and EMDR-trained clinical therapist. I specialize in helping deep-thinking, high-functioning, people-pleasing women heal from trauma, anxiety, grief, and spiritual harm with a compassionate, whole-person approach.

With a background in Christian ministry and extensive experience walking alongside others in pain, I offer a space that’s grounded, safe, and centered on your healing at your pace and in your way— a place where your story can finally be spoken, honored, and healed.

You were never meant to carry it all . Let’s unpack this together so you can begin to live free, and flourish.

What are your specialities?

Finding a therapist who’s a “good fit” for you is essential to your healing and growth.

You may not yet have the words for what’s bothering you—just a sense that something isn’t right. Maybe it’s the constant overthinking. The bone-deep exhaustion. The tears that come out of nowhere. Or the way your body tenses, even when nothing’s technically wrong. You’re showing up in life, but underneath, it feels like you’re unraveling—anxious, shut down, or just not yourself.

I specialize in trauma therapy that goes beyond symptom management to explore the “why” beneath what you’re feeling—and to help you begin healing from the inside out. Whether you’re navigating the impact of childhood emotional neglect, a high-demand faith system, burnout from caregiving, or unprocessed grief or loss, we’ll gently uncover what’s been buried and begin building something new.

Not sure where to begin? That’s okay. Explore my site and reach out with any questions. Whether we work together or I help you find another good fit, I want you to feel supported as you take your next step toward healing.

  • “The research literature has identified three factors that universally lead to stress: uncertainty, the lack of information and the loss of control.”


    ― Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No

  • "Knowing oneself comes from attending with compassionate curiosity to what is happening within."

    — Gabor Mate

  • “Trauma is not what happens to you, but what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you.”

    — Bessle van der Kolk

  • “The body keeps the score: If the memory of trauma is encoded in our senses, in muscle tension, and in anxiety, then the body must also be involved in the healing process.”

    — Bessle van der Kolk

  • The greatest source of suffering are the lies we tell ourselves. As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself. The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.”

    — Bessle van der Kolk

  • “Pain is the only protest in the human constitution that something is wrong. It is the only thing that raises its voice against existing abuses. If you jump to silence pain, you will fail to find the wound.”

    — Diane Langberg