March Madness Conclusion!

This year, Samaritan continued its annual tradition of an office wide March Madness bracket competition for both Men's and Women's basketball!

As always, we celebrated with a classic Pizza Party and enjoyed wearing our Samaritan March Madness Medals for the day!

Our Winners

Women's:

1st - Paulina Wertsch

2nd - Rick Badger

3rd - Dan Feaster

Our Winners

Men's:

1st - Angela Laufenberg

2nd - Andra Matthews

3rd - Ross Buttner

Accepting New Clients

We welcomed Ross (legal name Phillip) Buttner to the Samaritan team last month! He is still open and accepting new clients ages 10 and older! 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 has completed trainings in the somatically-based Focusing-Oriented 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 for those interested.

Ross is currently credentialed with Quartz, Dean Health, Medicare, Medicaid, UnitedHealth Care, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Cigna.

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/

Administrative Professionals Day

Happy Administrative Professionals Day to our administrative support team of Andra and Paulina! For those of you that don't know, Andra is our Administrative Assistant and Paulina is part of our Billing Staff. Both of them fill in where needed and Samaritan would not be operational without these wonderful women and all they do. We appreciate you more than you know!

Solihten Institute

Our center is affiliated and nationally certified with a large network of Samaritan centers across the US. The headquarters once called the Samaritan Institute, is now called the Solihten Institute.

In April, our Samaritan Counseling Center of Southern Wisconsin was honored to host other Samaritan Executive Directors that are part of a team to share best practice ideas.

Earth Day