CARING COUNSEL. Uplift Counseling has expanded its offerings in 2024, including through the creation of a new wellness center in Eau Claire. (Submitted photos)

When it comes to your holistic health, Uplift Counseling (4330 Golf Terrace, Suite 202, Eau Claire) is offering additional options in 2024 to make the process easier for the community. Since 2020, Uplift Counseling has been providing compassionate counseling services through their main providers, Sara Bowe and Alex Anderson. This year, they’re expanding their offerings to make their mental health services more accessible.

Their first new offering is night therapy, available Mondays and Tuesdays from 8pm-midnight online via Telehealth. These sessions are perfect for anyone with unusual work schedules or other obligations that prevent them from being able to take part in therapy during regular daytime hours.

“A lot of times for people, I think night is a time where their thoughts just spiral and go to those bad places,” Bowe explained. “Sometimes during the day, it takes a little bit more effort for us to go and figure out what’s happening, but then at night, before you’re going to bed or when the world is quieter, it’s just easier to capture those thoughts that people are having.”

Uplift Counseling does not currently accept insurance, and their sessions run at a flat rate of about $100. However, they are now working with an intern, who is holding sessions at a discounted rate of only $50. They also have discounts for students and two pro-bono spots that open up occasionally for those who may need them. “We’ve always tried to make it our mission to really balance quality care with affordability,” Bowe said.

The biggest development for Uplift Counseling, however, is Bowe’s creation of the Elevate Health Center. Coming to Eau Claire in the fall of 2024, Elevate Health Center will be a one-stop shop for holistic healing, including mental health services, life coaching, energy healing, massage therapy, and more.

Bowe said the space at the tentative new location will be about 3,000 square feet and will include 10 fully furnished treatment rooms – six for face-to-face counseling and coaching and the remaining four for bodywork services. There will also be a training side, where people can host holistic training services. Bowe says the hope is to have different community providers in the space who don’t want to commit to a full lease.

“We’re really promoting integrated care,” Bowe said. “So you’ll have providers who are training together and maybe your counselor and massage therapist are working together to figure out how to somatically heal you from each of their angles and approaches.”

Alex Anderson and Sara Bowe.

Along with the new space, Bowe is putting together the Elevate Health Collective, a network of local healing businesses that will provide options outside of insurance for business owners to offer their employees a certain amount of services within the network.

“It's just another way for companies to offer mental health and bodywork type sessions for their employees as a benefit and have that be low cost,” Bowe said. “Because insurance companies are mostly covering mental health sessions, but they don't cover massage or energy work, and those are still really important.”

More information on the Elevate Health Collective and Elevate Health Center can be found at elevatehealthcollective.org. You can schedule an appointment for Uplift Counseling by calling (715) 559-9428 and learn more at upliftcounseling.com.