Reach out with caution. After initial contact, and a lot of loose promises– Wild Iris has dropped the ball allowing vulnerable clients to drop through the cracks causing more harm than good. Having clients drive in over an hour just for staff not to be onsite, nor returning phone calls. Highly disappointed in the agency. If I was a board member, I’d be humiliated for the many ways women have been let down and forgotten about.

I'm not sure about their shelter or other services, but I definitely cannot recommend their peer counseling services. Three times I made an appointment with someone and all three times the people who I was supposed to meet with weren’t there. No one called me to let me know or reschedule. The first two times I got to talk with someone else, but because it was someone new each time I just had to repeat my reasons for being there. The last time there wasn't anyone there for me to talk to, so I had made the trip for nothing and was stuck waiting for my ride for an hour. Update: I took away a star because the therapist-in-training that I had begun seeing individually through Wild Iris canceled her appointment with me then completely blew me off after I complained here about their shoddy scheduling practices, basically confirming that they are unreliable and vindictive. How unprofessional! In hindsight, I wish that I had never sought out their services, as the poor treatment that I received actually made the issues that I was seeking counseling for worse. It took a lot of courage and commitment to healing for me to even attempt to address the PTSD that I have from abuse. The treatment that I received from Wild Iris basically concreted feelings of worthlessness and hopelessness in someone who was actively experiencing a mental health crisis. They showed me that if I am drowning and reach out to an organization like this for help I can expect only to have my head held under the water.