Clinic Hours
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday - 9am to 6pm
Wednesday, Friday - 9am to 4pm
Visit Us
8025 Excelsior Drive
Madison, WI 53717
Tel: 608-663-6154
Fax: 608-664-9854
Mission
The Family Center is a community based, affordable outpatient mental health clinic and the training center for Edgewood College's Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Program. Our mission is to support the growth, transformation, and overall wellness of our clients, staff, and the community within which we serve.
Values
Truth: We support the search for personal truth as a meaningful process.
Compassion: We provide non-judgmental client care with mindful compassion
Justice: We strive to empower disenfranchised populations.
Partnership: We believe quality service is enhanced through partnerships.
Community: We work together for the common good with dedication to service.
Vision
We impact the community by providing affordable, high quality mental health care and by training students for ethical leadership in our field. We embrace and treasure diversity and build community through a commitment to inclusion. We facilitate student learning with a strengths-based model in order to support futures of meaningful service.
Services
Individual Therapy
- Crisis & transitions
- Anxiety & depression
- Grief & loss
- School or work problems
- Trauma issues
- Eating disorders
Family Therapy
- Parent/child Issues
- Infant & early child mental health
- Adolescent/teen issues
- Divorce/separation adjustment
Relationship Therapy
- Premarital/marital counseling
- PREPARE/ENRICH
- Communication issues
- Sexual concerns
Identity Therapy
- LGBTQAI
- Ethnic
- Cultural
- Spiritual
Alcohol & Drug Use Disorders
- Individual Support
- Couple/Family Counseling
Support Groups
Men's Group
Held weekly on Thursdays from 1-3pm via WebExThe Men's group meets weekly to discuss the impact mental health has on their lives. By connecting and interacting, the men in this group discover new and inspiring ways to navigate the obstacles preventing them from experiencing life to its fullest.
Women's Group
Held weekly on Thursdays from 11:30am-1pm via WebExThe women's support group meets weekly and is open to clients of The Family Center as well as anyone who identifies as a woman in the community at large – all are welcome! This group will create an ongoing space for women to give and receive support from others in their community.
Crisis Support
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:
800-273-8255 | suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Dane County Crisis:
608-280-2600
Dane Co. Behavioral Health Resource Center:
danebhrc.org
Crisis Text Line:
text HOME to 741741 | crisistextline.org
Fees
The Family Center offers confidential, affordable psychotherapy services for children, teens, individuals, couples and families of the South-Central Wisconsin community.
Our clinic has a very generous sliding scale fee structure, ranging between $15 and $75 and based on the federal poverty guidelines. We accept cash, checks and credit card payments for services. Payment is due at the time of service.
We are unable to accept insurance.
Staff
Clinical Director
Sam Egelhoff, LMFT
Core Faculty & Supervisor
Operations Manager
Julie Jensen, MS MFT
Core Faculty & Supervisor
Psychotherapists
Our staff of mental health clinicians and graduate interns has been trained in the family systems approach. This means that we believe problems are best understood in the full context of everything a person faces. Our staff will help you examine the many factors that contribute to the issues you are experiencing.
Services are provided by second-year graduate students and professionals working with and under the supervision of Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and AAMFT approved supervisors.