About Us

Welcome to Odonata Wellness Center, LLC

As a Licensed Professional Counselor and founder of Odonata Wellness Center, LLC., I want you to know that this center is a tapestry interwoven from the finest threads of passion, knowledge, and creativity.

This vision began nearly 25-years ago as I began a journey to create a healing environment infused with complementary healing modalities to support Post Traumatic Trauma survivors and individuals who experience Complex Post Traumatic Stress Symptoms. As I traveled the road of life personally and professionally there were experiences, epiphanies, and aha moments that sculpted what is now Odonata Wellness Center, LLC. I look forward to being of support.

Passion:

Helping people heal is what motivates me to get up each day and plant my feet on the ground. I consider it an honor to be invited into my client’s lives at some of their darkest hours and support them with solid tools that strengthen, heal, and help them grow beyond what they thought was possible.

Traveling the road of life, I learned first-hand that there was a need for a wellness center with a sole focus on supporting betrayed partners and their loved ones who struggled with sexual or pornography addiction. I wanted to offer support that went beyond traditional talk therapy. Moreover, helping hurting people identify their internal locus of control so that each person feels empowered to metabolize the root causes of trauma and/or addiction.

Helping my clients pull out their strengths, along with new supportive tools, boundaries, and goals become the alchemy to create a healthy lifestyle and foundation for one’s loving relationship and life.

Knowledge:

Seeking support from an experienced and trained professional specializing in the field of sexual addiction and betrayal trauma is essential. Having lived through this myself, I can say firsthand that going to someone trained in this work was the key ingredient to the success in my healing. That experience allows me to hold the torch of hope for others on their healing journey.

Throughout my education and training, I have had the good fortune to work with some of the top doctors and clinical professionals in the following fields of study;

Mount Mary University Master’s in Art Therapy program
The International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals
The Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists
Brainspotting
Mindfulness Based Addiction and Trauma Therapy
The Gottman Institute – Support for couples based upon nearly 50-years of research
I also had the privilege to train under a leading Neuropsychologist and a leading Post Traumatic Stress expert here in the Midwest.

Creativity:

When people read or hear, “Art Therapist” it may conjure a memory of the last time you created art. The fact is I do a lot of talk therapy as it is essential to learn about your story, needs, and goals. I am also trained and have experience as a Brainspotting clinician, sexual and betrayal trauma specialist, as well as mindfulness based addiction trauma therapist. Art therapy and it's processes are one facet of the kaleidoscope of tools I offer.

Some clients like to engage in art therapy and some not. Art therapy is only one facet of the kaleidoscope of the tools I offer in my creative toolbox. Here is a brief list of some of the therapy tools my clients and I find most helpful in and out of sessions.

Throughout the years, my clients have shared with me how they have flourished because of talk therapy combined with art therapy and Brainspotting.

Elizabeth A. Poth

Licensed Professional Counselor

Certified Sex Addiction and Betrayal Trauma Therapist

Certified Telehealth Provider – Wisconsin

Contact Elizabeth for Support

SUPPORTIVE TOOLS

Tools used in and out of sessions

Talk Therapy

Talking with a psychotherapist about troubling circumstances or past experiences can help a person address unwanted thoughts, feelings, or behaviors that are impacting their lives, today.

Perhaps it has been a life-long struggle with a particular issue or emotion. Talking with a trained therapist can assist a person with new coping tools to elevate anxiety, stress, or depression.

In some cases a higher level of care may be required. We always encourage people to talk with their provider about their personal situation.

Art Therapy

Art therapy is a marriage between art and psychology. The the art process and product allows for a person’s internal world to be experienced and externalized in the form of art.

The art process and metaphor inherent in that, as well as the art often yield so much rich information for the client to engage in.

Wounded or unhealthy parts of themselves, as well as blocks to reveal the amazing talents and strengths a client may have long forgotten about can be viewed in the process of making art and the finished piece.

Mindfulness Based Addiction and Trauma Therapy

Developing healthy coping tools begin in therapy. Client's learn how to use mindfulness in their everyday lives to build, strengthen, and grow in the following areas of life:

Daily mindful focus
Relationship to self and others
Somatic awareness and physical activity
Relationship to money
Relationship to intoxicating substances
Identifying sleep issues and patterns
Fostering a healthy relationship with food and nutrition

Gottman Couples Therapy

Built upon a foundation of 40-years of clinical research, John and Julie Gottman founded the Gottman Institute, which is considered the preeminent couple's therapy research and training program in the world.

This a beautifully structured therapy journey that supports hurting couples to strengthen or in some cases rebuild and teach how to have healthy interpersonal conflict with solid evidenced-based tools that work. Each couple is treated as unique, and a specialized therapy process is tailored to meet each couple's needs.

Couples also learn how to date and foster deep and meaningful intimacy through shared purpose and goals.

Brainspotting

Brainspotting is a supportive tool client's can request or your therapist may suggest in session. In the simplest of terms, where you look affects how you feel, as discovered and developed by Dr. David Grand.

The process of Brainspotting has been identified as a solid therapeutic intervention to treat mental health issues like, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, processing traumatic activation (such, as shaking and tremors due to trauma).

Safe and Supportive Counseling for Sex Addicts and Partners A compassionate partnership in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
(414) 639-2441

Through a compassionate partnership, we work with clients by providing focused evidenced-based tools to support their recovery from sex addiction, pornography addiction, intimacy issues, couples infidelity and betrayal trauma.

Empowerment

Healing

Recovery

Transformation

ADA Compliant

Odonata Wellness Center, LLC is ADA compliant and can be accessed from the main parking lot entrance, located at the rear of the building.

Catered Meals

For a seamless experience during the one-day wellness programs, intensive, or workshops catered meals will be provided for an additional fee. We will make every attempt to accommodate allergy and food intolerance issues.

Lodging

There are hotels, cabins, and bed and breakfasts located within a four-mile radius of Odonata Wellness Center, LLC.

A creative healing journey begins…