The Kosciusko Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday, April 17, for the business, now located at 3562 E. U.S. 30, Warsaw. They formerly were on Winona Avenue.

Tyler Zielasko, therapist and owner of Human Wellness Collective, said, “We have always had the desire to hire more therapists and grow as a business so we can grow in some of the services that we offer so we felt like moving here would be a better option because it now provides us with more space, and we had pretty much outgrown the other place.”

He said they had two full-time and two part-time people “squeezed” into two offices at their former location.

“This gives us triple the space and a lot of opportunity for growth,” Zielasko said.

Gabe Koser, therapist and owner of Human Wellness Collective, said they’ve also hired a third full-time person in Bekah Rowe, who only sees children and specializes in those with autism and children who have experienced trauma.

“We’re really excited to be able to offer services in a private practice for kids, which just is really lacking in our area so moving spaces was absolutely necessary as far as that is concerned, adding her and bringing her on board,” Koser said.

Currently, Human Wellness Collective is only offering mental health counseling and most of the staff are licensed as mental health counselors.

Zielasko said, “We’re hoping to expand some of our services into more of a wellness space into the future.”

Expanding into wellness in general would include “treating the whole body, the whole person and just allows us to treat more than mental health,” he said.

Koser said, hopefully, in the near future they will be looking at “incorporating some integrative health and wellness modalities and things that we can offer to people that are not just face-to-face talk therapy, but more incorporating, even starting from a mental wellness perspective and just wellness for the body as a whole in helping people to take control of their own health from a kind of a functional or integrative standpoint. So, be looking for those things, hopefully in the next few months as we expand services, and even expanding to being able to see children and meeting more of a mental health need will help us be able to provide some of those services that focus on just being well and what are some of the things that we need as humans that will help us be well.”

Koser and Zielasko have both been therapists for years, but their business only started about two years ago.

“We’re always interested in continuing to expand to meet community need and just develop services that will help in wellness for the entire community, and so we want to continue to develop and grow, so this (new location) offers us that opportunity to start that, and we hope to be able to expand services again really quickly,” Koser said.

“We’re excited about this space and filling it up and we’ll do that however we do it and we’ll go from there,” Zielasko said.

For more about Human Wellness Collective, visit its website.