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Welcome to my webpage! A primary purpose of this webpage is to help people find information on the seminars that I provide that are open to the public. I have a big heart for giving people the information and tools for improving their own and others lives. Indeed, if you look around this webpage you will find that there are some recorded sessions you can listen to.

Another purpose for this webpage is for my clients and others I work with to be able to find further resources, including copies of handouts I have given them (See Handout Section).

A third focus, and passion, of this website is church communities and church leadership in particular. Good mental health knowledge and self-care have often not been prioritized in such groups, but there is often a big need for. Church leadership often feel that they have to appear strong and that seeking help would somehow undermine God’s Good News. If church and spiritual context is of interest to you, please check out the “For Churches” tab.”

Upcoming Events Open to the Public

The Internet, Apps, and Social Media: Controlling Your Use So They Don’t Control You

Dr. Klausen will provide education on what all adults should know about how they are shaped by their use of apps, the internet and social media. Principles will be provided regarding how to prevent them from shaping our thinking and behaviors and how to stay in deliberate control.

November 17^th 10:15-11:15am

Pilgrim Church

535 Stow St., Fond du Lac WI 54935

Recent Events Open to the Public

Romans 12:10

Dr. Klausen preached at his home church of Water City on 07/21/24. Romans 12:10, calls us to love and honor one another within the body of Christ. The service and sermon is available on YouTube channel of the church.

443 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh.

www.watercitychurch.org.

On June 18th, 2023, I preached at my home church in Oshkosh – Water City Church (https://watercitychurch.org/). I am humbled by the trust they put in me, and grateful for the blessing they have been to my family and me over the last couple of years. The sermon is titled “An Invitation to Relax and Enjoy the Bible” and talked about using imagination when reading the Bible, as well as reading the Bible as meditation literature.

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Title: Understanding and Managing Stress and Anxiety

April 28th, 2022 at Waupun Junior/Senior High School

Meal: 5:30-6:00pm (cafeteria)

Seminar: 6:00-7:30pm (auditorium)

This event was open to Waupun School District’s students and parents.

Main topics

Understanding stress and anxiety in general, and for students in particular
Understanding how the pandemic has been, and still is, affecting student anxiety and how to mitigate these effects
Applied strategies and principles in managing stress and anxiety at both the individual and family level

Preaching at Lighthouse

On Sunday November 14th I preached at Lighthouse Christian Church in Fond du Lac. Sermon topic: Our Human Spirit. A recording of the service can be found on YouTube

I get introduced and start speaking at about the 56 minute mark.

My preaching should not be taken as an endorsement of the expressed or implied views of others speaking during the service.

Park Falls Seminars

On October 7th, 2021, I provided four 1-hour seminars on preventing depression across the lifespan, understanding memory and attention, understanding dementia, and finally a session on preventing and slowing dementia as well as care-giver self-care.

This program was at, and hosted by, Park Falls Public Library (a little under 4 hours Northwest of Fond du Lac).

Managing Interpersonal Stress at 6:00pm 02-23-2021 and 11:00am 02-25-2021 open to participants in the Women’s Empowerment Series.

The slides in PDF format: Managing Interpersonal Stress

NAMI hosted an online speaker series in November and I was one of the speakers.

Getting the Most Out of COVID-19

Strategies for Helping Consumers Increase Oxytocin While Socially Distancing and Getting Out of the Pandemic Strengthened

Awaken Women’s Conference

Dr. Klausen provided a break-out session at 2020’s Awaken Conference February 29th.

The Awaken Conference is open to all women and is an all-day Christian women’s conference at Community Church in Fond du Lac.

For more information about this wonderful conference, visit http://ccfdl.org/awaken/

Dealing with Anxiety: Flesh and Spirit Dr. Klausen will start by giving you a better understanding of how the Bible approaches flesh and spirit. From this foundation, the seminar will discuss the nature of anxiety, including why God equipped us with it, how it at times goes awry, and foundational principles in living with it.

Getting The Most Out of Your Memory

Dr. Klausen will help you better understand how different parts of our memory works, and things you can do to get the most out of it and get your memory to work better.

Recording:

This talk was free and open to the public. It was held in conjunction with NAMI’s annual meeting Wednesday February 12th 5:00-6:00pm. Thank you to the great crowd. Great questions and discussions as I have come to expect when working with NAMI. Great believer in the work you are doing!

Held at Lakeland Care, N6654 Rolling Meadows Drive, Fond du Lac. This talk is sponsored by NAMI and Fond du Lac County’s Department of Community Programs and hosted by Lakeland Care.

Flyer: NAMI 02/12/2020

For more information regarding the wonderful organization that NAMI is, visit https://namifonddulac.org/

No Regrets Men’s Conference

Dr. Klausen provided two break-out sessions at 2020’s No Regrets Men’s Conference February 1st.

The No Regrets Conference is open to all men and is an all-day Christian men’s conference first Saturday each February.

Biblical Conflict Resolution Dr. Klausen will teach you Biblical and compassionate principles and skills for resolving conflict, whether for use at work, in the church, between friends, or in the home.

The Beatitudes: Christ’s Personalized Promise to You Discouraged? Frustrated? World wary? Longing for peace? Tired of how this world is going? Using the Beatitudes and your specific personality, Dr. Klausen will help you identify Christ’s specific promise for you.

BeatitudesHandout

For more information about the No Regrets Conferences, including recordings of last year’s break-out sessions, please visit: http://www.noregretsfdl.org/

Espen Klausen, Ph.D.

Klausen Consulting, LLC

A licensed psychologist and public speaker based in Fond du Lac, serving Central/Eastern Wisconsin

Espen Klausen, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist who provides private services under the umbrella of Klausen Consulting, LLC. Such services include, among other things, seminars, trainings, and consultations. Klausen Consulting, LLC has also started working with rural counties that have a hard time accessing good psychological assessments for adolescents that have not had success in treatment or where it otherwise is a need to figure out how to best understand what is going on with the the youth and help the youth. In this capacity, Dr. Klausen is providing assessments through CCS. Dr. Klausen, through Klausen Consulting, LLC, would also consider private pay assessments.

Dr. Klausen is also a psychologist and clinical supervisor with Fond du Lac County’s Department of Human Services. His work includes outpatient therapy with couples, families, and individuals of all ages, as well as psychological assessments as needed to support other County services. He also oversees the department’s psychotherapists and helps with the day-to-day running of the outpatient clinic. Dr. Klausen manages the mental health component of the Fond du Lac’s Youth Fire Intervention Program. He also helped run and establish the PACE (Providing an Alternative to Corrections through Education) program housed at juvenile detention until this grew to the point where permanent dedicated staff was hired. Dr. Klausen provides consultations and trainings for various programs ran by the county.

Dr. Klausen consults on a volunteer basis on the training committee for SSM/St. Agnes Behavioral Health’s pre-doctoral psychology internship program. The program has a designated internship slot for each of Trauma, Child, and Health Psychology, and is rapidly developing a reputation as an internship that comes as advertised, where interns grow, learn, and enjoy their experiences.

Dr. Klausen periodically runs seminars on spiritual and mental health topics at churches in the area. His home church is Water City in Oshkosh (https://watercitychurch.org).

Dr. Klausen also does talks in Fond du Lac and surrounding areas for various organizations and companies on a variety of topics relating to motivation, communication, stress management, and mental health.

Dr. Klausen grew up in Norway and attended college at Concordia College in Moorhead Minnesota where he received his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Political Science/History. He graduated with his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He completed his pre-doctoral internship at Mendota Mental Health Institute, a state psychiatric and forensic hospital.

Podcast Appearance

You can also learn more about me by checking out Andrea Wenburg’s podcast series. I was her first guest.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1223799516

If you can’t access iTunes, you can also go to http://andreajoywenburg.com/

Andrea Wenburg is on a mission to help people find their voice. She has chosen me to be the interview object to launch the series with. Mrs. Wenburg is the author of Unfrozen: Stop Holding Back and Release The Real You. In this personable and easy to read account, she shares her own journey to find her voice. Ms. Wenburg is also a public speaker and personal consultant.

Ms. Wenburg also interviewed me regarding helping pastors and other ministry leaders www.voiceofinfluence.net/68

as well as about the psychology of changing (or not changing) one’s mind: https://voiceofinfluence.net/…/the-psychology-behind…/

I seek to reach out more deliberately to church communities in general, and have added a “Churches” tab with further information and sample education and training topics.

Testimonials

Regarding assessment report:

“You coming to assess [consumer] is like Christmas and birthday for us”

“Thank you so much for all of your time and thought! I have just begun reading this… and as I figured it is amazing and so helpful!”

“[I] have enjoyed reading through everything!”

“Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is exactly what we needed! You hit on EVERYTHING we had questions about”

On seminars:

“BRAVO feedback on the interpersonal stress talk for NAMI!”

“Everybody needs to hear this!” – pastor commenting to his neighbor during one of my anxiety talks for Community Church

“Exactly what we needed” – pastor’s summary of the participants’ responses at the forgiveness and understanding anger sessions at the 2016 No Regrets conference

“Premium speaker” – Great Marriages of Sheboygan County

“I came because my son, who was dragged to your other talk, said you were great and I should not miss this!”

“Witty, informative, would attend further lectures.”

“Please have more lectures from Dr. Klausen!”

“Wow, lots of lightbulb moments! Thank you!”

“Great job today! Everyone at my table found your talk very helpful!”