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My name is Greg Gintz, MSW, LCSW and I have been living a life helping others in my local community. Growing up I volunteered at local food pantries, created a Giving Tree Program in Verona, WI, was an active Eagle Scout, and did what I could to help improve my local community. I was a tutor, mentor, and the Vice President of the Social Work Student Organization in college. I graduated with my undergraduate degree in Social Work from UW-Whitewater with highest honors and went on to get my Masters Degree in Social Work from UW-Madison. I enjoyed my many job experiences that followed graduation and helped shape me into the clinician I am today. I am a state trained trainer of Person Centered Planning and have helped plan and implement trainings in Sauk County across many service areas. I learned to specialize in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Exposure Therapy, Crisis planning, mindfulness and created my niche as a Therapeutic Youth Mentor.

I founded Therapy Without Walls in June of 2011 to help fill a serious void in the mental health service field. During my years of practice in community mental health, I repeatedly observed that many adults and youth encountered significant obstacles to accessing quality and consistent mental health care. I noticed that these obstacles typically resulted in poor follow through with mental health treatment. Barriers to accessing treatment may result from mental and/or physical health issues which impair a person’s ability to leave the home to access services; a lack of financial resources to transport to services in the community; or, age related difficulties that make transporting difficult. While practicing clinical social work in the community, I recognized that many people feel more comfortable and open to treatment in the comfort of their own homes and communities. I learned of the serious lack of programs to bring mental health care to people in the comfort of their own homes and to be able to meet in their local communities.

I put the pieces into place to offer in home counseling and social services by founding Therapy Without Walls. Initially, I had great success working with adolescent males from the age 4 to 18 that previously did not engage in any type of therapy offered. I created a blend of mentoring and individual psychotherapy called Therapeutic Youth Mentoring. This has been successful engaging consumers in the therapeutic process while having the experiential aspects of mentoring in their local communities. This type of work has led to increased engagement and improved outcomes with consumers of services.

I am now the owner and clinical supervisor for Therapy Without Walls. I train my staff in Person Centered Planning and integrate recovery oriented services developed to empower the consumers that we work with. I continue to provide therapeutic youth mentoring and individual psychotherapy while working to expand my private practice to meet the needs of more consumers. Some of our current initiatives involve reaching fidelity measures with implementing Motivational interviewing into our practice (2015) and becoming nationally certified as a Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapist 2016).

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