Therapists in Minnesota

Your story deserves a safe place to be heard. You may be in a chapter that is painful or confusing, not knowing where to go next. My desire is to come along side you and guide you to a chapter of discovering hope knowing that your story is not over. There is so much to uncover in you! I look forward to creating an environment for you to be known, understood and to gain new tools to keep moving forward in life. I enjoy working with teenagers, young adults, and adults. I am passionate about various issues women face today and empowering and supporting women through them.

Work with adolescents and their families is where my passion lies. I understand and believe that the system a person is operating in can impact all parts of one's life experience. I believe it is important in therapy to meet you where you are at and explore where you want to go. Creating a path to becoming your most authentic self is one of the most rewarding and challenging acts you can do. I am honored to be a part of your process.

My goal is to support clients to improve their quality of daily life and I am committed to supporting them achieve better outcomes for themselves. I work with clients and their families to learn healthy strategies for managing anxiety and depression that may be debilitating or preventing them from doing things they once loved and enjoy doing.

I am a Pre-Licensed Clinician working towards licensure as a Professional Clinical Counselor supervised by Amy Engelhard, LMFT. I have over 10 years of experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and families. I believe that with warmth, support, and curiosity, as people we can bring awareness to our patterns and begin reflecting on how we would like to move forward with living in our present and future life. I have experience helping clients with generalized and social anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation and self-esteem, family changes, school challenges and life transitions.

Estimated 8-12 week wait. I have been a therapist for over 15 years and currently own a group practice in Edina. I provide therapy for individuals who want help with sexual concerns, disordered eating maintenance/body image recovery, prenatal/postpartum issues, burnout/moral injury in helping fields, trauma recovery, and problematic drinking/sober curiosities. I want to understand what it is you hold most dear and find meaningful in your life and relationships. By doing this, I can help you identify and navigate how to align with your values, intentionally, through awareness of unhelpful patterns and incremental behavioral change.

I work with couples who experience lack of effective communication, struggle with sexual desire, and connection. I am a PREPARE/ENERICH facilitator and can facilitate pre-marital counseling. I work with youth and adolescents who currently or have experienced trauma, anxiety, and depression. I do ADHD coaching with adolescents, their parents, and adults. I work with the Queer community as I am an openly Queer therapist. I work with people of color as I identify as a person of color as well. I work with the Kink community and gender and sexual health issues.

Ever feel stuck in life due to unforeseen circumstances and are unsure about how to move forward? I imagine that you are struggling with developing healthy lifestyle habits, or positive coping strategies and may be experiencing persistent depression or anxiety. Perhaps your depression and anxiety stem from a major life change, traumatic experiences, conflict in relationships, financial hardships, chronic or terminal illness, or the loss of a loved one. If any of those things are true for you, then I can help you become unstuck and live your most fulfilling life. You deserve to move forward and begin your healing journey.

I believe individuals’ thoughts, beliefs, behaviors, and bodily sensations need to be brought into our awareness, as insight is essential for change. I also believe that humans want to find purpose and meaning in their lives, that most people want to feel loved, validated, and that their needs are being met. When these are not present, unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, such as avoidance or negative self-talk can arise and cause distress in our lives. I use cognitive behavioral therapy, emotion-focused therapy, and the therapeutic relationship as tools for alleviating symptoms and supporting other goals of healing.

For the past 25 years, I have worked extensively with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression or other complex feelings related to difficult life transitions, relationships, traumas. My overall goal of therapy is simple: to help each client connect with tools and supports that will allow them to live the meaningful life they are striving for. I am humanistic, compassionate, actively engaged and enjoy humor. My goals are to work hard alongside you in creating a life that matches your values, while also creating a safe place for you to explore.

Letting a therapist in on the difficulty in your life can be vulnerable and scary. I strive to create a safe place for couples and relationships to explore themselves and to find a new way of being that feels deeply authentic and connected. My therapeutic approach is to be collaborative, sensitive, sometimes silly, and always genuine. I would love to connect!

I am an experienced, mental health therapist, with specialized skills in trauma informed, and addiction informed psychotherapy. My philosophy of therapy is both collaborative and holistic. I view therapy as a collaboration between my clients and myself. In addition to resolving the client’s specific concerns, I hope to empower my clients with the ability to enrich their overall quality of life. I strongly believe in taking a strengths-based, resilience approach, and highlighting the positives that exist in one’s life.

I believe therapy can be beneficial for everyone, as we all experience difficulty in life, a need for healing, a desire for wholeness, or just for things to "get better." If you are struggling, be it with grief, relationships, or a sense of stuckness, you don't have to do it alone. I'm happy to be on your life journey with you! I work with adolescents, adults, and children age 10+, as well as couples and families. As a chaplain and pre-licensure marriage and family therapist, I work from a relational and systemic perspective, honoring the spiritual and religious backgrounds of all people as we explore what's meaningful to you.

I enjoy working with children, adults, individuals, couples and families. I assist in helping others to explore deeper motivations and recognize their own special gifts and talents.

Are you struggling with self-esteem, relationship issues, lack of boundaries, or always prioritizing others? I place tremendous value on building a trusting therapeutic relationship and providing a safe, compassionate, and non-judgmental space where you feel seen, heard, and accepted. You can expect a warm, empowering, creative, patient, and explorative environment. I enjoy working with individuals of all genders, races, and cultural backgrounds from ages 12 and up. I am passionate about helping individuals increase self-awareness, self-compassion, identify and utilize their strengths, and develop skills to navigate challenges.

I work with families, couples and individuals. I help families address problematic relationships, parenting, and understanding mental health. I help couples to address difficult relationship dynamics and work to heal and improve their communication, connectedness, and intimacy. Finally, I help individuals with anxiety, depression, anger issues, integrating faith, and more. I specialize in working with those who want to integrate their faith into the therapeutic process and welcome people of all backgrounds.

Seeking and making changes takes courage. The evolutions that happen in the therapeutic process take place within the relationship between client and therapist. It's my role not to provide instant or easy answers, but to help you discover and understand your strengths and the things that keep you feeling hurt and stuck. We find the way through together.

*WAITLIST FOR NEW CLIENTS AT THIS TIME* Are you feeling overwhelmed? Are you living with pain that feels like a heavy overpowering wave? Are there unwanted thoughts that won't go away? Often our lives can feel unmanageable and begin to feel like chaos. Hurts from the past hold a strangling grip and current struggles feel hopeless. The pain can make you feel stuck, as if trying to function while living in quicksand. You try to explain it to friends and family but feel like no one understands. I can walk beside you in your healing journey. I can help you move forward again.

Are you struggling with day-to-day life due to the thoughts in your head and/or choices you've made? Do you currently have a diagnosis that is confusing? Would you like to understand yourself better? Are you willing to make small incremental changes to change or even enrich your experience? I am here to help you discover what patterns or how your responses to your life's experiences may be holding you back from living as you desire.

At Summit Guidance Center we specialize in working with people who suffer with depression, stress, anxiety, and trauma. Empathetic understanding and action-oriented skills training underscores our treatment philosophy. We utilize a client centered approach with cognitive, behavioral, and mindfulness based strategies to strengthen clients' adaptive response to difficult emotions and events.