Wausau Child and Family Counseling
Individual and family counseling is available for children and adolescents who need help with:
- Physical or sexual abuse, neglect or other trauma.
- Depression and anxiety.
- Low self-esteem.
- Problems due to divorce, separation, remarriage or the death of a loved one.
- Parent-child conflicts.
- Pre- and post-adoption transition.
 Anger management issues.
- Academic or behavioral school problems.
Services offered:
Location and directions
Galleria IV Building
705 S. 24th Ave., Suite 400
Wausau, WI 54401
(715) 848-1457
Map
Hours
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday
Our staff
Susan O'Day, MS, LPC is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she earned her master's degree in Educational Psychology. She has an interest in assessing and treating attachment disorders with young children. She works with parents to help them identify how their personal mental health impacts on their child's interaction with them. Her primary area of interest is working with young children and their parents. Susan regularly attends the Midwest Sexual Abuse Conference to stay abreast of the most recent updates in treating children who have been traumatized by physical, sexual or emotional abuse. She has been providing intensive in-home clinical services to children and their families in Marathon and Lincoln Counties for the past eight years.
Kao Xiong, MS, LPC is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he earned his mater's degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Guidance Counseling. He specializes in working with children and adolescents struggling with a variety of issues such as depression, anxiety, social and academic behavioral problems, family dynamics, grief issues, and stress. He works directly with the child as well as parents, who often need support and guidance. His primary area of interest is working with delinquent adolescents and acculturation adjustment issues with families. Kao has led workshops on marriage and family problems, family stress management, and resolving anger issues. Kao has participated in training involving mind-body techniques for depression, play therapy, trauma, anxiety and pain, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder and grief. He cofacilitates a treatment group for Hmong male domestic violence abusers.
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