​Glenda joins Gals as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She earned a bachelor’s degree from UW-Stevens Point and a Master of Social Work from UW-Milwaukee’s Helen Bader School of Social Work, becoming licensed in 2000. Glenda has over 10 years of experience working with adolescents in various treatment settings, including incarceration, inpatient and residential treatment settings. Glenda's clients have struggled with anger management, emotional regulation, self-harm, depression, anxiety, social anxiety, adoption complexities and post trauma stress. Additional areas of focus include family work, co-parenting, blended families, and divorce. Glenda loves to provide her clients with a supportive and healing environment to help them find their footing after difficult life experiences. Glenda is also comfortable engaging in grief work/ bereavement as well as life transitions such as menopause, retirement, launching young adults and experiencing aging parents while raising children (sandwich generation). The courage, resiliency and determination Glenda witnesses and shares with her clients humbles and inspires her every day.

Glenda is also a very dedicated and committed parent volunteer for the activities and interests of her own three children. Her parenting adventure has included being a band and choir parent, coaching middle school forensics, sewing and costuming casts for middle and high school musicals, coordinating book fairs, field trips and various school fundraisers. Glenda loves to knit and crochet for charity. She is a relentless advocate for Music and the Fine Arts in her children’s grade school and high school. To raise funds for the arts programs, Glenda proudly serves as the vendor coordinator for the largest juried craft fair in the state of Wisconsin, held at Brookfield East High School every November. Additionally, she served as a UW-Extension Master Gardener Volunteer for 15 years, where she educated children and the public on best garden practices. "Strong roots" and "grow through what you go through” are favorite mantras that apply to life experience.