Telemental Health Throughout Wisconsin
You don't have to know
why you feel this way.
Maybe you just recognize something needs to change. Whether you're carrying the weight of trauma, stuck in patterns you can't break, navigating a relationship that's fraying, or just feel like somewhere along the way life went off the rails, then this is a place to start.
With over 30 years of experience spanning military service, corrections, forensics, and clinical therapy, I provide grounded, practical, and highly specialized care to help you move forward and reclaim your wellbeing.
Jason Fairweather
LPC • CSAC • ICS
Licensed Professional Counselor, Clinical Substance Abuse Counselor, and Clinical Supervisor.
Trauma-informed counseling for people who want steady, specialized care grounded in real-world experience and evidence-based treatment.
Who I work with
Most of my clients don’t arrive with a diagnosis. They arrive with a feeling: exhausted, stuck, numb, anxious, angry, sad. Sometimes they're struggling with life. Sometimes they're fighting with that voice inside that tells them all the bad things about themself. The circular thoughts that won't stop. Or the pingpong of thoughts that won't stop racing. They want someone who'll take that seriously, and listen, without turning it into a label or telling them they just need to go for a walk.
Whatever brought you here, you’re in the right place, and you are welcome here.
Signs You Are in the Right Place
You just feel off
Nothing catastrophic happened. Life looks fine on paper. But something feels flat, heavy, or wrong, and you can't quite name it. That's enough of a reason to reach out.
Relationships are hard right now
A partnership that's eroding. A pattern you keep repeating. Feeling alone even around people. The connection you want keeps slipping away, and you're not sure why.
Anxiety & Stress
Your body feels constantly on edge, your mind keeps racing, and you feel like you can never fully relax. The tension has become the background noise of your daily life.
Depression & Disconnection
You feel shut down, unmotivated, isolated, detached from others, or like life has lost some of its color. Getting through the day takes more than it should.
Stuck in a pattern you can't break
You know what you're doing isn't working. You've tried to change it. Something keeps pulling you back. That's not a character flaw. It's a signal worth paying attention to.
Trauma & PTSD
You survived trauma but your body, your mind, or somewhere deep inside you hasn't forgotten and won't let you move forward without the responses that interfere with daily life.
Grief, loss, and transition
A death, a divorce, a career, an identity. Loss doesn't have to be dramatic to be real. Sometimes the hardest transitions are the ones no one around you seems to recognize.
Substance Use & Recovery
Whether you're questioning your use, deep in it, working recovery, or navigating relapse, there's no threshold you have to meet to deserve support. This is a space without judgment.
Shame & Self-Worth
You know you're trying, but part of you still feels not good enough, guilty, or defined by your worst moments. You're more than those moments.
Frontline & Career Burnout
First responder, healthcare worker, veteran, or simply someone who gives a lot: when the weight of work bleeds into who you are, something has to give.
You don't need to fit neatly into any one category or match any of those categories at all. Reach out. The free consultation is a chance to ask questions, explain what you're looking for, and decide whether working together feels right to you. If, for any reason, I can't help, I'll help you find someone who can.
You're a person
who has survived.
Trauma responses are your body and mind trying to keep you safe when there is no threat anymore. When we've lived through trauma, it's normal for our limbic system to try to protect us by sensing threat where there is none. Our system's job is to protect us, and so it does. And our mind, our body, and our emotions respond. It's exhausting.
What we might explore together
Finding some quiet in the noise
Gently working with the anxiety, panic, and hypervigilance that have been keeping you on guard.
Making sense of the past
Processing old pain at your own pace, so it has less hold on how you feel today.
Rebuilding trust, including in yourself
Understanding old relationship patterns and beginning to feel safe with people again.
Grounding when things get hard
Building practical tools you can actually use when something catches you off guard.
Care grounded in experience that goes beyond the office.
One of the things I bring to therapy is range.
My background spans military service as an infantryman and close-quarters battle instructor, nearly two decades in corrections and forensic work, crisis intervention, clinical supervision, international trauma-related work, and trauma-focused psychotherapy.
That experience is more than a list of credentials. It is a life shaped by sitting with people in some of the most difficult, high-stakes, and underserved circumstances that exist.
It changes how I show up in therapy. It helps me stay steady when the material is heavy, realistic about what people actually face, and less likely to pathologize the ways people have learned to survive.
I work best with people who want therapy that is grounded, practical, honest, and deeply respectful of what they have lived through, whether they are ready to begin or just beginning to consider it.
Approaches I draw from
EMDR
Evidence-based processing that helps the brain work through memories it's been stuck on, without requiring you to talk through every detail.
Brainspotting
A body-based approach that accesses trauma stored beneath the level of conscious thought, often reaching what talk therapy alone cannot.
Clinical Hypnosis
Used carefully and collaboratively to ease defensive patterns and access a calmer, more receptive state for processing.
Neurosomatic Psychotherapy
Polyvagal-informed therapy addressing how trauma is held in the body. Nervous system education and regulation help you understand and shift how your body responds.
Substance use and recovery support
Practical, judgment-free work on use patterns, relapse, and recovery. There is no threshold you have to meet to deserve support, and no version of your story that disqualifies you from care.
In addition to psychotherapy, I provide clinical evaluations and assessments across legal, regulatory, and occupational contexts, work that draws on the same forensic, institutional, and psychotherapeutic experience that shapes how I practice.
Learn more ↗
LPC • CSAC • ICS
Walk of Life Counseling, LLC
Telehealth across Wisconsin
About Jason
I started this practice because I knew something was missing.
I wanted to offer therapy that takes people seriously without making them feel like a case to be managed. Most of my adult life has been spent around people navigating hard circumstances. The military, corrections, and correctional forensics, in crisis settings.... I noticed a gap between genuine therapeutic connection and effective care, especially around trauma.
That hasn't made me detached from it. If anything, it has made me more committed to this work and more careful about how I do it.
I'm not a blank slate therapist. I show up with perspective, with steadiness, and with a genuine belief that the people in front of me are more than their worst moments or their hardest years.
A grounded place to begin again.
The first step doesn't have to be perfect. It only has to be a step.
Whether you know exactly what you want to work on or only know that something needs to change, we can begin there.
If, for some reason, I'm not the right fit, I'll do my best to help you find someone who is.
What the free consultation is
A real conversation, not a sales call
We talk about what's going on for you, what you're looking for, and whether working together feels like a good fit.
A chance to ask anything
How I work, what therapy might look like, what to expect. There are no wrong questions at this stage.
No pressure to commit
You're not obligated to schedule a session. This is simply a conversation to help you decide if this feels right.
Available by phone or video
Whichever feels more comfortable. Telehealth across Wisconsin means we can meet wherever you are.
Making therapy accessible.
Insurance can be one of the biggest barriers to starting therapy. This information is here so you can check before you have to ask.
Private pay rates are available. Current rates are listed on the Fees & Insurance page.
See full details ↗Not in my network? You may still have coverage.
If I am not in-network with your insurance, you may still be able to use your benefits. I can provide a superbill, a detailed receipt you submit directly to your insurer for out-of-network reimbursement.
Some clients are able to recover a portion of session costs this way, depending on their plan. The process is usually straightforward, and I can walk you through it.
It is worth a quick call to your insurance company to ask about your out-of-network mental health benefits before assuming coverage is not available.
What to expect in your first session.
Starting therapy can feel intimidating, especially if you've tried before without much success, had a poor experience, or if you're unsure where to begin.
The first session isn't an intake form or interrogation. It's a conversation. You bring what you can, and we start from there.
You're never required to share more than you are ready to share.
You don't need to have everything figured out before we meet.
Good trauma therapy never looks like recounting every detail.
By the end, my hope is that you leave feeling clearer, not necessarily resolved, but clearer.
Whenever you're ready.
There's no perfect moment to start. There's only the one where you decide to reach out.
Whether that's today or after sitting with this for a while, the door's open, and I'll be here.
jason@walkoflifecounseling.com
Serving clients throughout Wisconsin via secure telehealth.