Therapy, Coaching & Psychological Services for Mequon & Thiensville
Thoughtful psychological care just minutes from Mequon and Thiensville.
Neuma Psychological Services provides psychotherapy, coaching, and psychological consultation for individuals, couples, families, and organizations in Mequon, Thiensville, and the surrounding North Shore communities.
Our office in Glendale is approximately 10–15 minutes south of Mequon and Thiensville, with convenient access via I-43. For people who prefer the flexibility of meeting from home or work, we also provide telehealth psychotherapy throughout Wisconsin and virtual coaching more broadly.
We are a small practice founded by Zach and Alicia Meyer. We share a relational and psychodynamic approach to psychological health while bringing different areas of training, experience, and interest to our work.
We are also interested in something larger than symptom reduction. Therapy sometimes begins because anxiety, depression, OCD, trauma, relationship difficulties, or another concern is causing genuine suffering. But psychological health can also involve greater self-understanding, healthier relationships, increased discernment, stronger boundaries, greater connection, and a clearer sense of what makes a life meaningful.
Our goal is not simply to help people feel less bad.
We want to help people live well.
Therapy for Teens & Adolescents in Mequon & Thiensville
Adolescence can be particularly complicated in communities where young people have access to excellent schools, abundant opportunities, and considerable expectations for what they will eventually accomplish.
Having opportunities is a good thing. It does not necessarily make growing up easier.
Teenagers may struggle with anxiety, ADHD, motivation, perfectionism, social difficulties, relationships, family conflict, identity, confidence, school performance, or the increasingly complicated task of developing independence while remaining connected to their families.
Some adolescents are clearly struggling. Others appear remarkably successful while carrying much more anxiety, self-criticism, uncertainty, or pressure than the adults around them realize.
Zach works extensively with adolescents and teenagers. His approach combines practical help when something concrete needs attention with deeper exploration of the patterns, relationships, beliefs, and developmental questions underneath the immediate concern.
Therapy can help teenagers manage what is difficult now while also developing greater self-awareness and internal authority as they become young adults.
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College Students & Young Adults
The transition from high school into college and young adulthood can be especially complicated for students who have spent years preparing to succeed.
A young person may have worked hard, earned strong grades, participated in activities, gained admission to a good university, and accomplished many of the things expected of them—only to arrive at adulthood uncertain about what they actually want.
The difficulty is sometimes less about having good options than knowing which options are good for you.
College students and young adults may seek therapy for anxiety, ADHD, OCD, depression, perfectionism, social difficulties, relationships, motivation, academic performance, family relationships, identity, or uncertainty about the future. Others are functioning reasonably well but want help developing a stronger sense of direction and ownership over the life they are beginning to build.
Zach has spent much of his professional life working with adolescents, college students, and emerging adults and considers this developmental period a particular focus of his practice.
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Therapy for Adults
Adults seek therapy for many different reasons.
Sometimes there is an identifiable mental health concern such as anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, or trauma. At other times, someone may recognize recurring difficulties in relationships, emotional patterns that have become exhausting, questions about identity or faith, or a growing sense that the way they have been living no longer fits particularly well.
Both Zach and Alicia work with adults and share a relational and psychodynamic foundation. We are interested in what is happening now as well as the experiences and relationships that have shaped how a person learned to understand themselves and the world around them.
Our areas of focus also differ in useful ways.
Zach works particularly with ADHD, emotional regulation, perfectionism, creativity, identity, and the challenges that accompany transitions through young and middle adulthood. He is trained in Internal Family Systems and frequently incorporates IFS and other parts-oriented approaches into his work.
Alicia works particularly with trauma, codependency, boundaries, relational patterns, identity, and the ways earlier relationships continue influencing present life. She is a certified EMDR therapist and brings a strong family-systems perspective to her clinical work.
Anxiety, OCD, depression, identity, and religious trauma are shared areas of interest and expertise.
Couples & Intergenerational Family Therapy
Relationships are among the most important sources of meaning in our lives, and some of the places where our most persistent psychological patterns become visible.
Both Zach and Alicia provide couples therapy. Our work with couples focuses on helping partners understand the patterns that develop between them, communicate more effectively, express needs more clearly, establish healthier boundaries, and develop greater understanding of both themselves and one another.
Alicia also specializes in intergenerational family therapy with adult family members. This work may involve parents and adult children, adult siblings, or other generations of a family trying to address longstanding conflict, estrangement, changing family roles, caregiving, boundaries, or relationships that have become stuck.
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Coaching for Mequon & Thiensville
Not every important psychological question is a mental health problem.
People also seek help because they are making consequential decisions, entering a new stage of life, struggling to turn intentions into action, reconsidering what they want from work or relationships, or simply wanting to understand themselves better.
Coaching allows us to bring substantial psychological training and clinical experience to these questions without unnecessarily treating ordinary human development as pathology.
Zach and Alicia both provide coaching, with different areas of emphasis.
Student & Young Adult Coaching with Zach
For students and young adults, coaching can provide a particularly useful middle ground between doing everything alone and entering psychotherapy for a problem that may not actually require mental health treatment.
Zach works with students and young adults around motivation, focus, study habits, independence, decision-making, vocational discernment, relationships, boundaries, healthy habits, and the transition into adult responsibilities.
College readiness coaching can begin before a student leaves home and continue after the transition. The move to college requires young people to manage an extraordinary number of things at once: academics, sleep, food, money, laundry, friendships, schedules, self-care, decision-making, and the emotional experience of being away from familiar support. Students who were highly successful in high school sometimes discover that the external structures supporting that success have suddenly disappeared.
Coaching can help students develop the practical skills they need while also thinking more deeply about what kind of person they want to become as their lives increasingly become their own.
Zach also provides coaching around vocation and creative work. Writers, musicians, performers, and other artists may seek support around creative blocks, burnout, perfectionism, self-doubt, performance anxiety, developing a creative voice, or building a sustainable relationship with their work.
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Coaching with Alicia
Alicia's coaching work brings her expertise in relationships, systems, boundaries, identity, and human development to people who are seeking greater agency and intentionality in their lives rather than treatment for a mental health condition.
This can be particularly valuable for women who have become highly capable at meeting the needs and expectations around them while becoming less certain about their own.
A woman may be navigating the competing demands of work, relationships, family, caregiving, leadership, and her own ambitions. She may recognize that she has difficulty establishing boundaries or tolerating other people's disappointment. She may be reconsidering a professional role, a relationship pattern, or assumptions about who she is supposed to be. Sometimes the work involves becoming more comfortable with authority, identifying and expressing needs, or developing a more empowered relationship with work and the other systems she inhabits.
Alicia's systems perspective is particularly useful here. People do not develop in isolation. The roles we occupy within families, workplaces, relationships, churches, and communities influence what we expect from ourselves and what we believe we are permitted to want.
Coaching creates room to examine those influences without assuming that something is psychologically wrong.
The aim is greater clarity, stronger boundaries, healthier relationships, increased self-understanding, and a more intentional sense of how you want to inhabit your life.
Because coaching is not psychotherapy, this work is not geographically limited to Wisconsin.
Parent Coaching
Parenting does not become simple because children get older.
In some ways, adolescence and young adulthood make the parental role more complicated. Parents are still responsible for providing guidance and support while simultaneously needing to allow young people increasing independence, privacy, responsibility, and ownership over their choices.
It can be difficult to know when to intervene and when to step back.
A teenager may be struggling academically, socially, emotionally, or behaviorally. A college student may appear to be making poor decisions or failing to manage responsibilities that their parents assumed they were ready to handle. Parents may find themselves caught between genuine concern and the recognition that repeatedly rescuing a young person can interfere with the very development they are trying to support.
Parent coaching provides a place to think through these questions with someone who understands adolescent and young-adult development.
The purpose is not to tell parents the one correct way to respond to their child. It is to help them understand what may be happening, consider what their child needs developmentally and psychologically, and respond in ways that support both connection and increasing independence.
Sometimes the young person is also in therapy.
Sometimes the parents are the people best positioned to create change.
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Psychological Consultation for Mequon & Thiensville Organizations
Mequon and Thiensville are home not only to families but to schools, churches, businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations dealing every day with the complexity of human behavior and relationships.
Neuma provides psychological consultation to organizations that want greater expertise around the people and systems involved in their work.
Zach's consultation work is particularly focused on organizations serving adolescents, college students, emerging adults, and creative communities. He consults around youth mental health, staff training, difficult cases, crisis response, program development, psychologically informed policy, performance anxiety, and the challenges organizations encounter when serving young people with increasingly complex psychological needs.
Alicia's consultation work focuses particularly on organizational systems, relational health, workplace dynamics, leadership, and conflict resolution. She has previously consulted with churches and parachurch organizations around organizational structure, relationships, and conflict and is particularly interested in supporting organizations and programs devoted to the development and empowerment of women.
Some organizations need one of these perspectives.
Others benefit from both.
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In-Person Care Close to Mequon & Thiensville
Our office is located in Glendale, approximately 10–15 minutes south of Mequon and Thiensville with straightforward access via I-43.
For many clients, that makes in-person therapy or coaching easy to incorporate into the week without traveling into downtown Milwaukee.
Others prefer telehealth even when they live nearby. Virtual appointments can make psychological care easier to fit around school, work, parenting, and other responsibilities.
Psychotherapy is available virtually throughout Wisconsin where our licenses permit us to practice. Coaching is not governed by psychotherapy licensure in the same way and can therefore be available to clients beyond Wisconsin.
The important thing is that geography does not have to create unnecessary friction in receiving care.
Finding the Right Kind of Support
You do not need to determine exactly what kind of service you need before contacting us.
A parent may begin by looking for therapy for a teenager and discover that parent coaching would also be useful. A young adult may be uncertain whether the concern they want to address belongs in therapy or coaching. An adult may know that something needs to change without having a particularly good name for what that something is.
Tell us what is happening and what you hope might be different.
We can help determine whether therapy, coaching, consultation, or some combination of support makes the most sense—and whether Zach or Alicia is likely to be the better fit.