Hello! And Welcome

Sondercove Wellness was founded in 2024

Dominique Christian, President & CEO Thank you for visiting Sondercove, a Black-led center for peer support and community wellness serving Madison, Dane County, and communities across Wisconsin.

We provide culturally responsive, peer-led mental health and substance use support through Wisconsin’s Comprehensive Community Services (CCS), youth and parent peer programming, recovery-focused services, and community-based care rooted in lived experience.
On this site, you will find information about our peer support services, Black mental health initiatives, youth and family programs, recovery and harm reduction support, workforce development opportunities, and ways to partner with or contribute to our mission.
Whether you are seeking support for yourself or someone you care about, exploring culturally responsive mental health services in Madison, or looking to join a growing movement in community-based care, you belong here.

We believe in the power of people’s stories and in creating spaces where those stories can be shared without shame, fear, or judgment. The word sonder reminds us that every person we meet is living a life as complex and layered as our own, carrying histories, struggles, hopes, and resilience that often go unseen. That understanding shapes how we practice peer support in Madison and across Dane County and Wisconsin. As a Black-led center for peer support and community wellness, we approach mental health and substance use support with cultural humility, lived experience, and deep respect for autonomy. Whether someone connects with us through Comprehensive Community Services (CCS), youth peer support, parent peer support in Wisconsin, recovery support in Madison WI, or reentry mental health support after incarceration, we see challenges within the broader social, racial, and community contexts that influence wellbeing. We believe the person is not the problem; systems, trauma, and isolation often are. Our work is holistic and community-based, grounded in Black mental health awareness, harm reduction, trauma-informed care in Madison, and Medicaid services in Wisconsin that make support accessible. Healing does not happen in isolation—it happens in relationship, in community, and in spaces where dignity is protected and hope is sustained.

Our Services

  • Peer Support

    Peer support is different from traditional therapy. It is built on mutuality, shared power, and connection. Our peer specialists in Madison walk alongside individuals offering emotional, social, and practical recovery support grounded in real-world experience.


  • Parent Peer Support

    Our Certified Parent Peer Specialists (CPPS) are parents with lived experience navigating systems such as Child Protective Services (CPS), special education, juvenile court, and family court. We understand the emotional weight of advocating for your child

  • Service Facilitation

    Through Comprehensive Community Services (CCS), individuals receive service facilitation, a structured case management mental health service that coordinates treatment planning, goal setting, and system navigation.


  • Housing Support

    Offer housing services in Madison, Wisconsin designed to support individuals and families experiencing housing instability, risk of eviction, or homelessness. Our approach is grounded in Housing First principles, harm reduction, and dignity-centered care.


  • Individualized Skilled Dev. (ISDE)

    Focuses on strengthening skills that support stability, confidence, and emotional wellbeing. Through personalized, community-based support, participants build coping strategies, strengthen communication and relationship skills, develop routines and independent living skills, and gain confidence navigating schools, housing, employment, and other community systems.

  • Therapy

    We offer culturally responsive psychotherapy in Madison as part of our integrated, peer-informed mental health model. Therapy may support individuals navigating trauma and PTSD, anxiety and depression, substance use concerns, justice system involvement, or family and relational stress. Our licensed therapists work in close collaboration with other providers.

  • Youth Services

    Offer support for both young people and their caregivers, recognizing that healing rarely happens in isolation. We support developing coping strategies, communication, daily stability, independence building. In partnership with families, we navigate various systems with collaborative advocacy and support strengthening relationship skills, social-emotional learning, and goal setting.

  • Employment Related Services (ERST)

    Focus on supporting individuals build meaningful, sustainable career pathways that align with their strengths, interests, and long-term goals. We support career exploration, resume development, job searching, interview preparation, and workplace skill-building, and navigating other systems like DVR, IRIS, and other community supports.

  • Physical Health Monitoring

    We work alongside individuals to better understand medical care plans, track changes in sleep, energy, nutrition, or medication routines, and build sustainable wellness habits that support emotional stability and daily functioning. This work is non-clinical, —we do not diagnose or treat. When requested, we integrate body-centered practices such as trauma-informed stretching, mindful movement, nature walks, and grounding exercises to support regulation, reconnection, and overall wellbeing

Community-based and in-home services.

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