Calm with Care Therapy

Calm with Care Therapy I help adults navigate anxiety, trauma, self-esteem, relationships, and depression with compassion and evidence-based tools. EMDR trained.

Offering telehealth across WI using CBT & DBT. Optional individual 8-week Calm the Chaos anxiety program. I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) offering virtual therapy for anxiety, depression, and trauma. Using EMDR, CBT, DBT, and a person-centered approach, I’m passionate about helping people build confidence, heal, and make meaningful changes in their lives.

🌿 New Blog Post – October 2025 🌿This month in The Calm Corner I’m reflecting on something we all crave: connection.Why d...
10/20/2025

🌿 New Blog Post – October 2025 🌿

This month in The Calm Corner I’m reflecting on something we all crave: connection.

Why do some relationships fade even after deep closeness? How do we reconnect with others and ourselves when disconnection sets in? This post explores the ebb and flow of human connection and offers gentle ideas for finding your way back.

✨ Read the full reflection here: https://sites.google.com/calmwithcare.com/calmwithcaretherapy/the-calm-corner

Wishing you calm,
Kristen Rose, LCSW
Calm with Care Therapy

Hello everyone! - HAPPY SATURDAY. Hopefully you’re all enjoying your weekend and taking care of yourself. I wanted to co...
08/23/2025

Hello everyone! - HAPPY SATURDAY. Hopefully you’re all enjoying your weekend and taking care of yourself. I wanted to come on here and first apologize for being MIA and also offer another “therapy basics, real talk segment.”

One thing I see with a lot of my clients is difficulty with feelings identification and expression. This means - that sometime or even oftentimes that you don’t know how to describe your feelings or express what’s bothering you - for example - “I feel anxious today because I’m going to a new place OR I feel frustrated because I got into a fight with my significant other.”

Based on how we grow up, we learn how to identify and express how we feel or we learn that it’s not emotionally safe to acknowledge or express our thoughts and feelings. Do this exercise daily to increase feelings identification and expression.

1. Look at the feelings wheel below.
2. Pick the most appropriate emotion(s)
3. Provide the reason why you feel that way.

Once you’ve done this - you’ve successfully did feelings identification and expression. The more you make it apart of your daily life, the more positive consistent habits you’re creating for yourself - which ultimately helps improve your quality of life.

“Therapy basics, real talk” one of the most powerful things that can occur in therapy is sitting with discomfort. The pa...
08/01/2025

“Therapy basics, real talk”

one of the most powerful things that can occur in therapy is sitting with discomfort. The painful emotions that we try to tuck away to protect ourselves, you’re actively choosing to confront and sit with those emotions. Sitting with discomfort isn’t supposed to be fun. It isn’t supposed to be painless. But it does serve a purpose. It allows you to show yourself that you’re capable of managing your mental health symptoms. It shows you that your emotions do not control you and that you can be in control of your emotions. It teaches you to not immediately distract yourself. It shows you that the way to effectively heal is to go through it, not around it.

Sit with the discomfort.
Show yourself what you’re capable of.

I’ve been dabbling with the idea of running a virtual DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) skills group and I’d love to kn...
07/19/2025

I’ve been dabbling with the idea of running a virtual DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) skills group and I’d love to know if this is something that would be helpful for others.

The group would meet on a weekday evening or weekend morning for 8 weeks. It would be a psychoeducational group focused on learning practical, real-life tools from DBT including:

🧠 Mindfulness (being present without judgment)
💬 Interpersonal Effectiveness (communicating clearly & setting boundaries)
🌪️ Emotion Regulation (understanding and managing intense feelings)
🔥 Distress Tolerance (getting through hard moments without falling apart)

This approach can benefit a lot of different challenges, especially if you:
– Feel emotionally overwhelmed, angry, or reactive;
– Experience mood fluctuation or shutdowns;
– Look “put together” on the outside but feel like you’re falling apart inside.

I really want to focus my energy on something meaningful, and this feels like the right next step. This group may be insurance eligible. I’m happy to walk you through it if you’re curious.

💬 I’m just gathering interest right now, no commitment. If this sounds like something you’d want to hear more about, drop a 🙋‍♀️ or send me a message!

“Therapy basics, real talk.” What is therapy? Many people hear the word therapy and have different interpretations of it...
07/16/2025

“Therapy basics, real talk.”

What is therapy? Many people hear the word therapy and have different interpretations of it. Therapy isn’t just about getting the same advice from your friends. Therapy isn’t just about getting someone to agree with you. Therapy isn’t about friendships.

Therapy is about looking at your situation and realizing that you want something to be different with it. It requires internal motivation, active participation, and is client driven. I always tell my clients - imagine we’re in a car and you’re in the drivers seat and I’m in the passenger seat. I’m here to help give feedback, challenge perceptions, guide the conversation, give psychoeducation, etc. Therapy is about actively participating in the session and carrying the content outside of the session to real-world application for lifelong changes.

Therapy is about having a third, non-biased party to help you navigate situations that you (and the others around you) might be too close to. Therapy is a transitional process. It’s about needing support with your mental health, so you come and receive support, process through information, make behavioral changes, and eventually feel empowered and confident to manage your own mental health. It’s not meant to be a permanent thing. It’s not meant to be a forever thing.

It’s meant to be an empowering thing.
Therapy is not something to be ashamed of. It is not weakness. It is strength ✨

Something that I’ve noticed about myself in the therapy-realm is that I like (and I’m good at) giving psychoeducation (f...
07/09/2025

Something that I’ve noticed about myself in the therapy-realm is that I like (and I’m good at) giving psychoeducation (fancy way of saying education about therapy), so I’ve created this series called “therapy basics, real talk.” Maybe you’ve done therapy before and want to tag along or maybe you want to learn more about therapy concepts - still feel free to tag along.

I want to discuss one of the things that I consider to be the foundation of therapy - COPING SKILLS! Most people think of coping skills as something that you utilize when you’re already feeling distressed. Which is somewhat correct. But, what some people don’t know is that coping skills need to be practiced, preferably daily, to build what’s called “mastery” with the skill.

This means that once you’ve practiced it you will know how to use it and how it will work for you in times of distress so it’s even more effective. If you try to utilize a new coping skill when you’re already distressed, you will probably just feel even more distressed because you don’t know how to use that coping skill yet or how it works for you.

You need to give your mind and body time to really absorb the skill. Practice it many times - across multiple environments - at different times of the day. See what your mind and body likes - don’t worry, it’ll let you know what it does and doesn’t like.

Having a good foundation of coping skills is what makes it possible to discuss the deeper things in therapy - like processing trauma if that’s something you want to do, or just to have deeper discussions about your past adverse experiences, relationships/family dynamics, hardships, etc.

If you have no idea where to start with coping skills - look at this list below and see what you’d be interested in doing (and challenge yourself to start actively practicing them). If you already have some favorites, drop them below ⬇️ so we can share ideas with others who may need them 🌸 A lot of times people are already doing coping skills without even knowing it.

I’ll start - some of my go-to coping skills include breathing techniques, listening to music, taking walks, cleaning (or being active), taking bike rides, diamond art, coloring, and puzzles.

I hope you find a piece of this valuable.
Wishing you calm ✨

I started this page because I wanted to bring something authentic to people. I wanted people to come here and resonate w...
07/07/2025

I started this page because I wanted to bring something authentic to people. I wanted people to come here and resonate with what I was saying.

Lately, I’ve found myself tired. Not tired of the work I’m doing or the people I’m supporting, but of the silent pressure to show up in a certain way.

Creating content every week is something I genuinely want to do. It’s something I care deeply about. It matters to me that it’s helpful, valuable, and meaningful.

I don’t want to post just to have something to post. I want to share something you read and actually connect to.

I care immensely about showing up for women navigating anxiety, self-doubt, and emotional fatigue. But it can be exhausting to hold that while also being a full-time therapist, a mother, a wife, and a human.

So, I want you to hear this from me. If things start to look a little different here, less structured and more spacious, this is why.

I want you to feel like this page meets you where you’re at. And I want to know that I’m meeting myself where I’m at too.

I’m not stepping back. I’m giving myself permission to show up with honesty instead of pressure. To learn as I go. To share what feels true, not just what fits the plan.

I’m still here. Still grounded in this work. Still committed to connection. Just with more breath between the posts.

Thank you for being here with me.

Wishing you calm,
-Kristen

🌿 Tired but TryingThe Calm Corner (blog): July 2025Even when you’re doing all the things: showing up for your kids, mana...
07/07/2025

🌿 Tired but Trying
The Calm Corner (blog): July 2025

Even when you’re doing all the things: showing up for your kids, managing the house, holding it together at work, you may still carry the weight of not being enough somewhere else.

And that quiet question lingers: "How am I supposed to carry it all without losing myself in the process?”

This month’s blog explores:
– The emotional toll of over-functioning;
– The inner pressure no one else sees;
– And how to gently redefine what enough looks like using a practice I call the "Bare Minimum Check-In."

📝 Read the full post now: https://sites.google.com/calmwithcare.com/calmwithcaretherapy/the-calm-corner

You’re not alone in this. This blog is for every woman who’s doing her best and still feels like it’s not enough.

Wishing you calm,
Kristen

🟪 Feelings FridaySometimes the biggest shift comes from simply letting yourself feel.You paused.You cried.You laughed un...
07/04/2025

🟪 Feelings Friday
Sometimes the biggest shift comes from simply letting yourself feel.

You paused.
You cried.
You laughed unexpectedly.
You named what was hard.

That wasn’t weakness. That was movement. That was proof you’re human — and healing.

🌀 Small moments of emotional honesty create big internal change.
👉 What feeling came up for you this week that surprised you?

Wellness Wednesday 🧠Your nervous system doesn’t know the difference between a “small” win and a big one - it just feels ...
07/03/2025

Wellness Wednesday 🧠

Your nervous system doesn’t know the difference between a “small” win and a big one - it just feels the relief. Pause. Breathe. Celebrate the quiet victories.

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