Beth Wanke, LCSW

Beth Wanke is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Wisconsin with seven years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, substance use concerns, parenting challenges, and self-esteem issues. Her work also focuses on adoption and foster care, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and related family problems.

She uses straightforward, skills-based work in sessions. That can mean noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing different responses. She also draws on motivational interviewing to explore readiness for change and DBT skills for managing intense emotions and behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is part of her approach for changing thinking and behavior patterns.

Beth’s background includes outpatient mental health, substance use treatment, correctional settings, in-home therapy, and child welfare services. That experience informs how she talks about family dynamics, parenting stress, and trauma-related concerns. She has provided individual and group work in those settings.

She has worked with issues tied to divorce, domestic violence, drug and alcohol addiction, codependency, control issues, and communication problems. She also notes experience with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) and first responder issues. Her practice includes addressing guilt, shame, and the practical problems that come with caregiving and blended families.

Beth aims to help people build practical tools they can use between sessions. She supports clients in setting small, testable goals and tracking what works. The focus is on clear strategies, simple skills, and steady progress over time.

How Beth uses structured approaches online