Growth isn’t always loud; sometimes it’s the quiet choice to try again.

Grief is a natural healing process. Grief can stem from experiences that may not be recognized or acknowledged by family, friends, or society. It can arise after mental or physical health diagnoses. It may accompany pregnancy loss, the end of a relationship—even an unhealthy one—or when life turns out differently than expected. Grief may also emerge from experiences with a child or adult's intense behaviors or it could stem from addiction, whether through one’s own struggle or through the addiction of friends or family. 

At Everlight, we honor grief as a profoundly personal journey. Together, we explore the layers of loss and the many factors that shape your experience. We discuss how grief alters your brain and behavior and offer tangible ways to heal. Our goal is to provide a safe, compassionate space where you can tell your story, understand your feelings, and move through grief at your own pace. You do not have to carry it alone.

Our family stress management services help parents identify the root causes of stress in the home and respond in healthy, supportive ways. Everlight primarily serves parent/s, or those in a parental role, without the children present. To Everlight, kids can be aged newborn to adult. We honor that parents represent all genders and identities, and families come in many forms, including chosen families,  We use your definition of family to guide services.

Everlight partners with parents to reduce stress, strengthen coping skills, and build more connected relationships. We provide support around divorce, addiction, trauma, mental illness, intense behaviors, intimate partner violence, and/or child abuse or neglect. If you're stressed out, Everlight's services are for you. Our goal is to help create safer, more caring, more organized, and more connected homes. 

Everlight’s Life Skills Support Services help individuals nurture self-awareness, build emotional resiliance, and foster self-compassion through education, guidance, and skill-building. Services focus on reducing stress and anxiety, and enhancing overall well-being. Participants are encouraged to recognize their thinking and relationship patterns, explore how stress and trauma feel in the body, and understand how current life circumstances may be rooted in trauma or adverse childhood experiences. Each person is supported in building the skills necessary to overcome challenges and create meaningful change at their own pace.

This service is especially helpful for adults experiencing symptoms of ADHD, depression, anxiety, or other mental wellness challenges, or who are in or leaving an abusive relationship. Personal growth and a more peaceful life are encouraged through emotional regulation skill building and improved executive functioning skills. Executive functioning skills help us manage tasks, solve problems, and adapt to new situations. These skills include working memory, emotional regulation, and cognitive flexibility, as well as planning and prioritizing, task initiation, organization, time management, self-monitoring, and sustained attention.

Everlight’s  Life Skills Support Services also focus on strengthening and repairing relationships. Clients learn what is and is not healthy in relationships while developing new ways to communicate, resolve conflicts, rebuild trust, and deepen connection. We offer a safe, supportive environment to explore what is working, what needs attention, and how to move from feeling stuck in patterns of stress toward greater calm, freedom, and connection. 

If you feel like your life is out of control, Life Skills Services may be the right fit for you.

Not to be confused with the parent education classes required in Wisconsin divorce or custody cases, Everlight’s Parent Education Program focuses on parents and caregivers involved in the child welfare system (CPS) or those who need more intensive education and support. All parents love their children. Everlight's parent eduation program helps parents show their love through their words, actions, and making their child/ren feel emotionally safe.

Everlight's Parent Education Program is a structured, virtual service offered in six, eight, or twelve sessions and is tailored to each family’s individual needs and circumstances. Parents and social workers /service facilitators can choose from a menu of topics, including improving parental protective capacities and understanding why traditional discipline often fails if the child has a trauma history. The program shares information on child development, focusing on age-appropriate behaviors and why your child may not be behaving at the level you feel they should be. Additional topics explore how intense behaviors are often rooted in past trauma, acute stress, physical or sexual abuse, neglect, or attachment disruption. 

Everlight can provide a syllabus for court review and written updates on service engagement and progress for social workers and/or the court. The program can also be adapted to meet initial or ongoing foster parent education needs. It can be customized to fulfill pre-adoptive and/or foster care licensing requirements for child-specific education.

Jenny, Founder and Director of Everlight,, has over 30 years of teaching and training experience. on a variety of topics including, but not limited to: 

• Why Children Experience Grief Differently than Adults and How to Support Them
• How Grief Impacts Your Brain and Behavior and How to Heal
• Death, and Other Reasons Children and Adults Experience Grief and How to Heal
• Invisible Grief and How to Cope (children and adults)
• How Domestic Violence Impacts Children and How to Support Them
• How Nutrition Impacts the Brain and Behavior