Beth Wanke

Beth Wanke is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Wisconsin who supports children, adolescents, adults, and families as they navigate difficult seasons of life. Her background includes extensive work in child welfare services and direct mental health practice, giving her a strong foundation for helping people manage stress and anxiety, substance use concerns, parenting challenges, self-esteem, motivation, trauma, and experiences connected to child welfare systems. She also brings experience with family conflict, major life transitions, and complex emotional or behavioral concerns.

Her style is compassionate, collaborative, and nonjudgmental, with an emphasis on creating a space where clients feel heard, respected, and understood. Beth works alongside clients to make sense of what they are going through, identify strengths, and build practical tools that support meaningful change. Whether someone feels overwhelmed, stuck, uncertain, or simply ready for additional support, she aims to make therapy a place where thoughts and feelings can be explored openly and at a manageable pace.

Across outpatient mental health, substance use treatment, correctional settings, in-home therapy, and child welfare roles, Beth has provided individual, group, and family therapy using evidence-based and trauma-informed approaches. Her work includes Motivational Interviewing, Seeking Safety, cognitive-behavioral strategies, and strengths-based interventions, and her experience with family systems offers added perspective on parenting stress, family dynamics, and the effects of trauma for both children and adults.

In addition to clinical practice, Beth has served as an adjunct faculty instructor teaching substance abuse counseling and mentoring future helping professionals. She is committed to helping people recognize resilience, reconnect with values, and move toward healthier, more fulfilling lives, while honoring the courage it takes to begin therapy.