Services
Wellness Works provides a safe, confidential space to understand what is happening, build coping tools, and work toward healthier patterns.
One-on-one support for anxiety, depression, stress, life transitions, self-esteem, grief, trauma, and feeling stuck.
Individual therapy gives you a private, steady place to sort through thoughts, emotions, patterns, and decisions with support that fits your goals.
Support for children and adolescents using practical, developmentally appropriate care.
For younger clients, Dar incorporates play-based and creative strategies so children can express feelings, practice coping, and work through challenges in ways that feel natural.
Guidance for communication, conflict, emotional distance, trust, and relationship stress.
Couples therapy helps partners understand patterns, speak more clearly, and rebuild healthier ways of responding to each other.
A structured space for families to improve communication, resolve conflict, and strengthen connection.
Family sessions look at the patterns affecting the whole system so each person can be heard and the family can move toward more stable relationships.
EMDR-informed care for trauma, distressing experiences, and symptoms that keep intruding on daily life.
EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess difficult memories so they feel less emotionally charged over time.
Counseling for identity, relationships, stress, family dynamics, and mental health concerns.
The goal is a respectful therapeutic space where clients can talk honestly and work toward steadier wellbeing.
Support Areas
Therapy is personal. These areas are listed publicly across the practice’s own site and professional directory profiles.
Focused Support
These pages can help you get a clearer sense of what counseling may look like before you reach out.
Support for communication, conflict, emotional distance, trust, and relationship stress.
Explore Couples CounselingPractical support for family communication, conflict, parenting stress, changing routines, and major transitions.
Explore Family TherapyPrivate counseling for stress, anxiety, low mood, grief, trauma, relationships, and difficult life changes.
Explore Adult TherapyPractical support for chronic stress, exhaustion, boundaries, mental overload, and finding a more sustainable way forward.
Explore Burnout TherapyPractical support for intense frustration, conflict, stress, communication, and healthier ways to respond.
Explore Anger Management TherapyPrivate support for job pressure, anxiety, boundaries, difficult work dynamics, and finding a steadier way forward.
Explore Work Stress CounselingSteady support for major changes, difficult decisions, grief, uncertainty, and rebuilding a workable routine.
Explore Life Transition CounselingPractical support for worry, panic, stress, overwhelm, and anxiety that is affecting daily life.
Explore Anxiety TherapyCompassionate counseling for low mood, exhaustion, disconnection, self-criticism, and feeling stuck.
Explore Depression TherapyChild-centered counseling for big feelings, behavior, school stress, friendships, and family changes.
Explore Child TherapyRespectful counseling for school stress, anxiety, relationships, big emotions, and life changes.
Explore Teen TherapyA compassionate place to talk about loss, change, and the parts of life grief has made harder.
Explore Grief CounselingPractical counseling for attention, organisation, emotional regulation, and daily stress.
Explore ADHD TherapyRespectful counseling for identity, relationships, family stress, mental health, and everyday life.
Explore LGBTQ+ Affirming TherapySteady, trauma-informed counseling for difficult experiences and the ways they may still affect daily life.
Explore Trauma TherapyTelehealth may be available for Iowa clients who want counseling support without coming into the Ankeny office.
In Person & Online
Some clients prefer the calm of the office. Others need the flexibility of meeting online. The right format depends on clinical fit, availability, and what helps you stay consistent.
Counseling In Ankeny
Wellness Works offers in-person counseling from the Ankeny office for children, teens, adults, couples, and families.
See what counseling can support, where the office is located, and how to request an appointment.
Find practical, age-appropriate counseling for children and teens who are dealing with worry, big feelings, school stress, or changes at home.
Child & Teen Counseling
Wellness Works offers child and teen counseling that meets young people where they are, with practical support for the child and a clearer path forward for the family.
Learn more about EMDR-informed counseling for trauma, distressing experiences, anxiety, and related stress.
Trauma & EMDR
Wellness Works offers trauma-informed counseling in Ankeny, including EMDR-informed care when it is a good fit for your needs and goals.
Start Here
Request an appointment online, call the practice, or send a message. For a mental health crisis, call or text 988.
Request Appointment
Phone(515) 446-8490
Emailwellnessworks47@gmail.com
702 SW 4th Street, Suite 103
Ankeny, IA 50023
