Our Team
Shannon Juniper Neimeko, MAAT, LPC
Pronouns: They/Them
Identifies as White, Queer, and Genderqueer
Licensed to provide counseling in Wisconsin & Minnesota
Individual Counseling ages 17+
Assessments in support of letters for gender affirming medical care
Art Therapy
Shannon is the owner of The Center for Community Healing and is a counselor and art therapist with a specialization in serving LGBTQ+ and TGNC people, identity development, and supporting those experiencing minority stress. In their practice, Shannon aspires to support you in building resilience, crafting and owning narratives in ways that honor your strength and knowledge, and partnering with you in the service of your therapeutic goals.
As the former coordinator for Trans & Gender Non-Conforming Mental Health Services at UW-Madison's University Health Services, they have extensive experience providing counseling for TGNC and gender expansive people and in writing letters in support of HRT and gender affirming surgeries. They also have experience supporting individuals who are dually diagnosed with mental health and substance use concerns, and are trained in utilizing harm reduction psychotherapy. Shannon operates from a feminist and anti-oppression framework.
WI Licensed Professional Counselor 5517-125
MN Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor cc04112
NPI 1043785082
Accepts the Alliance, Dean (commercial & medicaid/badgercare) & Quartz (commercial & medicaid/badgercare) - not currently accepting new clients
Dean Amethyst Dvorak, LPC-IT
Pronouns: They/Them
Identities: White, Queer, GenderQueer, NeuroQueer
Individual Counseling ages 18+
Couples Counseling
Trans & Non-Binary Adult Support Group facilitator
Dean is a counselor-in-training under the supervision of Shannon Neimeko. They focus on creating strong and trusting therapeutic relationships as a vessel for supporting growth and change, defined by you! They believe the role of a therapist is not to "save" you, but to support you in saving yourself. They enjoy working with LGBTQ+ adults, particularly trans and non-binary people navigating gender affirming care, identify development, and life transitions.
They are passionate about supporting Autistic adults with a neurodiversity affirming and disability justice lens. Using feminist, narrative, harm reduction, and trauma-informed frameworks are all important parts of their work. They have experience supporting and advocating for survivors in past roles with the Dane County Rape Crisis Center and find working with trauma survivors on long term healing and recovery to be deeply meaningful work. They additionally have completed their internship with University Health Services working with undergraduate and graduate students for individual and group therapy, gaining experience supporting young adults. They deeply believe that anti-oppressive values and a commitment to collective liberation are essential parts of their clinical work, and have supported this through active engagement in culturally responsive and affirming leadership training through the LEADRs program.
WI Licensed Professional Counselor - in Training (LPC-IT) 8034-226
Currently accepting private pay clients. Please reach out if you have the Alliance and Quartz (Medicaid only) as Dean will soon be in network with these insurers
Email them at dean@center4communityhealing.com
Katt Cochran, PhD
Pronouns: They/She
Identifies as White, Queer, and GenderQueer
Katt is a Licensed Psychologist in Wisconsin providing teletherapy for folks located throughout the state, and is located in Milwaukee. Katt provides individual therapy to adults and adolescents exclusively through our telehealth platform.
As a therapist Katt seeks to build collaborative therapeutic relationships that are genuine, supportive, nourishing, and creative. Katt strives to create a therapeutic dynamic that honors a client's strength and knowledge and is empowering for clients to work towards their therapeutic goals.
Katt practices from an interpersonal, feminist, and liberation-focused framework. This means they see clients as experts on themselves, and seek to empower individuals to enact change within their lives and systems. They are also actively assessing how systems of inequality and oppression have sharped a client's lived experience, and the strategies they have developed for facing these systems, with an ultimate goal of liberation from and dismantling of systems of oppression.
Katt values the opportunity to address a variety of issues with clients, and believes the relationship/fit between client and therapist and the therapeutic style of the provider are the most impactful aspects of treatment. Katt often incorporates humor into the therapeutic space, and approaches therapy with unconditional empathy, encouragement, and care, and has a warm but direct communication style.
Katt works with a variety of concerns with clients, including stressors related to life transitions, identity exploration and development, relationship concerns, anxiety, depression, grief/loss, and concerns related to traumas experienced including intergenerational and systemic trauma. They also work as a counselor educator at Alverno College and enjoys working as a therapist for other therapists and/or folks proving clinical care and doing healing work for others.
WI Licensed Psychologist 3903-57
NPI 1821369869
Katt is not accepting new clients
Maple -
Semi-Professional Cuddler
Maple will be working with Shannon for in person sessions. She is hypoallergenic and very smol.
