Milwaukee Area Psychological Services
Milwaukee Area Psychological Services (MAPS) started as an idea literally written on the back of a napkin one night when Dr. Phelps and Dr. Skaistis were out for a drink. Both were working in therapy environments with strict session limits, meaning that clients could only be seen for a handful of sessions, often with weeks in between meetings. Settings like this force the individual patient to fit their needs into the narrow expectations of the system, unable to ask for more. So many of us grew up in families where we needed something that couldn’t or wouldn’t be provided. That same experience of deprivation that was bringing people TO therapy, was now being replicated IN therapy.
We knew there had to be a better way. And in 2015, MAPS was launched to help meet the need for therapy in Milwaukee that prioritized the needs of an individual client over the dictates of an agency or insurance company.
Over the past decade, our commitment to offering therapy that puts the relationship first has only deepened. In addition to standard continuing education, we are both recent graduates of the 2-year post-doctoral fellowship in Relational Psychodynamic Therapy, which you can learn more about here.
Friends outside of work, you can often find us taking in a concert at one of Milwaukee’s beautiful historic venues, or eyeing vintage treasures at a local antique shop.
