Not a crisis service. If you need help now, call or text 988, any hour.
Telehealth across Wisconsin · (608) 555-0142
Not a crisis service. If you need help now, call or text 988, any hour.
Telehealth across Wisconsin · (608) 555-0142
Since 2012 on Monroe Street in Madison: eleven licensed therapists, four rooms and a video studio, and a person, not a voicemail, on the first call.
You
The left arc, turned toward the room
Your therapist
The right arc, turned toward you
The gap
Room for what you are not ready to say
Why Ovel
Turn two chairs toward each other and look down at them from above: they make an oval, open at the top and the bottom. That is our name, and our whole idea of therapy. No couch, no desk between you, and a gap left on purpose for whatever is not ready to be said yet.
I opened Ovel in 2012 with two rooms and one rule: the first person you speak to is someone who works beside a therapist, never a voicemail. Fourteen years on we are eleven therapists, four rooms and a video studio. The rule has not changed.
Leah Brandt
Leah Brandt, PsyD · founder and clinical director
The waiting room, Suite 2 · open from 7:45 am
Suite 2, Monroe Street
When we moved into Suite 2 in 2019, we rebuilt it before we painted it. Every wall, door and seat below is there so you can come and go without being seen.
C
Room 1
Couples · three chairs
Room 2
Two chairs, a window
Room 3
Families · a sofa and floor space
A
Waiting room
Six seats, all facing the window
Office
Intake and records
Studio
Video sessions · soundproofed
D
Entrance
Monroe Street · step-free
Room 4
Play room, ages 4 to 12
B
Side exit
Out to Harrison Street
A
No names called out
Your therapist meets you at the waiting room door, by first name only. The six seats face the window, not each other.
B
A second way out
Sessions end through the side exit onto Harrison Street, so you never walk past the next client.
C
Walls you cannot hear through
Insulated walls in every room, and a white-noise machine outside each door.
D
Step-free from the street
Ground floor, wide doors, an accessible restroom and two parking spaces by the entrance.
Directory, Suite 2
Therapist
Works with
Room
Since
Leah Brandt, PsyD
Trauma, grief · founder
Room 2
2012
Daniel Reyes, LMFT
Couples, blended families · Spanish
Room 1
2014
Maya Ortiz, LPC
Anxiety, burnout, life changes
Room 2
2015
Marcus Bell, LCSW
Men, fathers, anger and stress
Studio
2016
Priya Nair, LPC
New and expecting parents
Room 2
2017
Tom Lindqvist, LMFT
Families with teenagers
Room 3
2018
Grace Okafor, PsyD
OCD, panic, health worry
Room 2
2019
Rosa Delgado, LCSW
Children 4 to 12 · Spanish
Room 4
2020
Samuel Kim, LPC
Students, adult ADHD
Studio
2021
Hannah Weiss, LCSW
Eating and body image
Room 2
2023
Owen Fischer, LPC
Older adults, caregivers
Room 1
2024
Jess Moreau
Intake coordinator · the first voice on the phone
Office
2013
Measured, not guessed
Two minutes, nine questions on mood, worry and how the sessions feel to you. You see the answers, and we read them together. If nothing has moved by session eight, we change the approach or help you find someone who fits better.
Check-in, session 8
A sample client of Maya Ortiz, LPC
2 of 9 questions shown
Feeling nervous or on edge
These sessions feel useful
Worry score since the first session · lower is calmer
Session 1
14
Session 4
11
Session 8
7
Honest about our limits
A good practice knows where it stops. When what you need is outside our work, we tell you on the first call and hand you on with a name, not a website.
Not at Ovel
Where we send you
Crisis care
988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, by call or text at any hour, or 911 if you are in danger.
Prescribing medication
Your doctor or a psychiatrist. With your written consent, we keep them up to date.
Custody and court evaluations
A forensic psychologist. We share the names of three we trust in Dane County.
Day and residential programs
A program near you. Our intake team helps you find one and calls until you have a start date.
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