Mads Owen, Clinical Intern (they/them)

Mads (they/them) is a counseling intern and second-year master’s student at UW-Madison. They are committed to providing therapy that honors clients’ identities, cultures, and lived experiences. Mads develops an open, nonjudgemental, and authentic relationship with their clients, offering them the safe base needed to explore new ways of relating to oneself and others. Mads adapts their approach to each client’s needs– whether that means offering gentle guidance, structured support, or collaborative exploration– and is passionate about incorporating emerging evidence-based practices and ways of healing into their work.

 

Mads is particularly interested in supporting LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent individuals at any step of their journeys, drawing from their own lived experiences as a neurodivergent, trans-nonbinary, and queer individual. They enjoy providing inclusive spaces for queer, trans, and nonbinary folx, as well as for individuals with ADHD, OCD, and autism. They also welcome clients with relationship and attachment concerns, depression, anxiety, trauma, life transitions, and more. They provide counseling for adults and adolescents aged 14 and up. Mads’ practice is grounded in interpersonal processing therapy and identity-affirming care. Mads is growing their skills in providing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Above all, Mads centers trauma-informed, social justice, and intersectional frameworks, tailoring their approach to each client’s unique goals.