A New Year Begins!

We wish you all a joyful and exciting new year and hope 2023 brings health, happiness, and the personal tools to conquer whatever challenges are thrown your way.

Welcome Ross Buttner!

We are very excited to welcome Ross (Phillip) Buttner to the Samaritan team! He will officially start seeing clients for therapy on February 1st, 2023, and is accepting new clients ages 18 and up! If you would like to become a new client of Ross, please call our new client line at 608-663-0763 ext. 100 and we can work on the new client process.

Phillip (Ross) Buttner, Ph.D, LP

Phillip (Ross) Buttner is a Licensed Psychologist (LP). Ross received his Bachelor's degree in Psychology from UW-Madison and Ph.D in Clinical Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in California. He has traveled extensively and spent two years at a meditation center completing numerous extended silent meditation retreats.

Ross has completed trainings in the somatically-based Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Existential group process work, and has expertise with anger-management and communication skills from his 7 years working with domestic violence clients. Ross has worked in both community counseling as well as acute partial hospitalization settings.

Ross brings over 25 years of practice and research of mindfulness to his sessions, bringing presence and humor into his sessions in treating depression and anxiety-related concerns, including trauma, grief, identity and life-change crises. Ross has also completed our specialized training to integrate one's own faith into the therapy process.

Ross is currently credentialed with Medicare, Medicaid, UnitedHealth Care, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Cigna. We are in the process of getting credentialed with additional insurances as well, including Quartz and Dean.

Here is a link to the website bio for Ross if you would like more information about him:

https://samaritancounselingcenterwi.org/therapists/phillip-ross-buttner/

This month marks the nine year anniversary of Rick Badger joining the Samaritan family. We couldn't be more happy to have worked with him all these years and we hope to continue working with him for many more.

Thank you, Rick!

We also are celebrating our three year anniversary since moving across the hall into our newer, bigger office space.

On Monday, January 16th, 2023, our offices will close to observe the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King J.

Although born on January 15th, 1929, the United States recognizes him on the third Monday of January each year.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the strongest voices of the time for nonviolent activism in the Civil Rights Movement. He inspired progress and, for that, we thank and honor him.