Jenna Landry

Clinical Practicum, She/Her

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I enjoy working with youth, adults, and relational dynamics. My areas of interest include developmental trauma and PTSD in adults and youth, chemical health from a harm reduction lens, and relational work with monogamous and non-monogamous couples and polycules.

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My approach to therapy is client-centered, relationship-based, and systemic. In therapy, my goal with you is to co-create a space of trust, authenticity, and curiosity in which we can begin to move towards healing, understanding, and hope. Community and connection are vital to the healing journey, and I am grateful to be able to offer connection by hearing your story and navigating the next chapter with you.

Locations: St. Louis Park, Telehealth

Anna Ruehlow

MA, She/Her

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I enjoy working with youth, adults, and folks in relationships navigating various life stressors. My special interests include processing life transitions, relationship difficulties, identity exploration, emotional disengagement, and sexual concerns. I strive to affirm and celebrate diverse identities and relationship structures in my work.

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I have a casual, direct approach in therapy, drawing from a client-centered, collaborative, and systemic framework. This means I focus on individual experience while keeping in mind all the intersections and impacts of identity, community, and society as a whole. My goal as a therapist is to create a space to empower you to fully be yourself, to invite critique of systems or "rules" you have been taught that are not working for you, and to help you make your own meaning out of life. I work from strength-based, trauma-informed, harm-reduction, and anti-oppressive lenses. Queer-identified provider.

Locations: Nicollet, Telehealth

Grace Heneghan

MSW, LGSW, They/Them

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​I enjoy working with folks exploring gender, sexuality, and relationships. Additional areas of interest and experience include, sex therapy, neurodiversity, grief and loss, body image, self-worth, anxiety, depression, and COVID-19-related processing and support.

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I am a white, queer, non-binary, fat, and neurodivergent pre-licensed therapist. My work is grounded in queer theory, fat liberation, disability justice, depathologizing, and liberatory practices.I strive for anti-oppressive and collaborative therapy that centers on hope, healing, recovery, and humility.

When we work together, my hope is to foster a therapy space that is non-judgmental, client-centered, supportive, affirming, sex-positive, trauma-informed, and free from shame as we navigate and unpack your stressors, supports, and goals in building your healing journey. 

Locations:  Lyndale, Teletherapy

Tonya Le

Clinical Practicum, She/They

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My approach to therapy is trauma informed, client-centered, and anti-oppressive. I am passionate about working with children, adults, families, and partnerships navigate through life changes, marginalization, attachment issues, identity exploration, trauma, and relational connection.

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I hope to empower you in making sense of your life, your unique goals, and to help you build the skills needed to achieve those goals as the expert in your life. As a systemic and intersectional thinker, I strive to provide a therapeutic space that is collaborative, affirmative, and supportive. I believe in the power of love and strongly believe relationships and connection are an integral part of our lives. I am drawn to narrative therapy, IFS (internal family systems), attachment theory, and experiential therapy

Locations: Telehealth, Nicollet

Justin Levy

Clinical Practicum, He/They

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I work with people individually or relationally around themes of anxiety, depression, body image, identity exploration, gender, sexuality, relationships, boundary development, communication,  and attachment. My work as a therapist is grounded and energized by anti-oppressive practices and liberation. Within our time together, I will hold a mindfulness to the ways in which a socially unjust society impacts mental health. I am committed to a collaborative and connected approach to therapy that is client-centered and trauma informed.

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 My role in therapy is to create a non-judgemental space centered in compassion where we can discuss your struggles and look towards where you hope to go with curiosity and affirmation.  You can expect me as your therapist to work to find the connections in life that are not always front and center. I will approach our time together with a wonder to recognize and identify as much of the full picture as possible.
​Locations: Telehealth, Lyndale

Lisa Michel

Clinical Practicum, She/Her

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I trust clients as experts of their own lives, each with unique strengths and needs. Working from a place of respect and humility, my goal is to offer a safe space to rest, let go, and heal—whatever that means for you. Areas of clinical interest include anxiety, depression, body image concerns, and workplace/career stress.

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My approach is holistic, designed to help you build self-awareness and nurture connections between mind, body, and spirit. I believe that growth comes from recognizing and replacing old, unhelpful beliefs with ones that honor your authentic self. Key to my collaborative style is embracing flexibility and ongoing communication to ensure therapy is meeting your needs. I work with clients of all intersectional identities and backgrounds.

Locations: Telehealth, Nicollet

Ruby Fry

Clinical Practicum, She/Her

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My approach to therapy is trauma informed, and client-centered. I am passionate about working with individuals, couples, and non-normative partnerships and practice from an attachment-based, psychodynamic, and narrative therapy approach. 

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I believe that therapy is a relationship built on trust, understanding, and hope between people. We will work together to understand how your experiences with people, trauma, and the joys and
hardships of life have shaped how you view yourself, others, and the stories that define your life and your relationships. During therapy, we can examine these long-held beliefs and narratives to reshape them into ones that empower you and meet your needs in healthier ways. I practice from a trauma-informed, attachment-based, psychodynamic, and narrative therapy approach. I live and practice from an
anti-oppressive and anti-capitalist stance and believe all people across the spectrum of gender identities, sexual identities, and relationships deserve to have lives of contentment and to feel safe and secure.

I am passionate about working with queer and trans individuals, couples, and alternative partnerships. I work with clients to ensure they feel that therapy with me is a safe space in which they can fully explore and express their authentic selves.

Life is far from easy.  It can be hard to ask for help and to try and live a life that better meets one’s needs. We will work together as you cope with life’s challenges and find a way to increase your joy, purpose, and self-acceptance.

Locations: Telehealth, SLP

Hannah Rogak

LMFT

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I enjoy supporting individuals & couples through interpersonal conflict, developing communication skills, mood regulation, and trauma healing.  I work with older teens, adults, couples, and adult family members and use trauma-informed and somatic modalities.

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I am a client-centered and trauma-informed and my approach is both rooted in a belief that healing happens in relationship to others and that personal, interpersonal, and societal transformation are deeply connected. My practice is informed by narrative, collaborative, somatic, and relational therapies in order to shift how we hold pain in our bodies, and create change in ourselves and our relationships. A kink and sex-positive provider.


Locations: Telehealth, St. Louis Park

Stacy Hatke

Clinical Practicum, She/Her

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​I work with individuals, couples, and polycules. My interests include sexuality and gender expression, relational counseling, particularly non-normative relationships, sexual health & sex therapy, fat liberation, and trauma work. I consider myself sex positive, body positive, and kink-affirming. My approach is client centered and anti-oppressive.

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Locations: Telehealth, St. Louis Park

Sinta Fergus

MSW, LGSW, She/Her

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I work with individuals and people of all relationship styles who are seeking support regarding anxiety & depression, relationships, identity exploration, and complex trauma including work around reproductive/perinatal loss. 

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As a therapist, I hope to create a warm, compassionate space for clients to reconnect with who they are, develop tools for navigating challenging situations, and become a more authentic and grounded version of themselves. My approach is strengths-based, relational, and rooted in exploring the interactions between our thoughts, emotions, nervous systems, somatic experiences, and identities. I aim to create a collaborative, non-judgmental environment where clients feel safe and encouraged to show up honestly and fully. I draw from a variety of psychotherapy modalities and frameworks, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), polyvagal neurobiology, Attachment Theory, parts work (IFS), and Mindfulness. My approach is systemic and greatly informed by the impact of oppressive systems on mental and emotional well-being. Together we will establish your goals for therapy and check in regularly to assure you feel satisfied with your therapy experience. Trauma-informed, queer & trans-affirming, anti-oppressive, and sex-positive provider.

Pronouns: she/her​
Locations: Nicollet, Telehealth

Rachel Bauer

LAMFT, She/Her

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I specialize in working with couples, individuals, and families experiencing inter-relational conflict with a focus on relationship.

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I am passionate about working with relationships! I believe our relationships can be a place of great healing, even if they hold a painful past. For you, this may look like struggles with communication, infidelity, substance use, different levels of sexual desire, divorce, coparenting, grief, managing family structures, and family or relationship cut-off.


I use a systemic approach in my work with clients, meaning I'm always considering the relationship structure at play - even with individuals. I hold a Master's degree in Marriage and Family therapy and am certified facilitator of Prepare and Enrich. 

​Locations: St. Louis Park, Telehealth

Anne Bauers 

LMFT, She/Her

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I specialize in working with couples and individuals experiencing challenges related to sex. ​For couples, this might look like having different levels of desire, struggling with infidelity, or managing the effects of past sexual trauma.

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Individuals may want to address performance difficulties, sexual pain, or struggles with past sexual abuse. I’m also passionate about working with individuals and couples that are considering or going through separation or divorce, as you seek to heal and build a new kind of family. My goal in therapy is to create a safe environment where we can openly address your challenges. I welcome clients of all relationship styles and backgrounds, including the LGBTQ community and those in non-traditional relationships. I hold a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy.

​Locations: S. Minneapolis, Telehealth

Ben Powers 

LPCC, He/Him, She/Her, They/Them

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I specialize in helping individuals experiencing difficulties related to gender and sexuality, chemical dependency and family change. I provide an LGBTQIA+ and Sex-Positive approach to create an open and accepting environment free of judgment and stigma.  ​

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I use cognitive behavioral, narrative, and mindfulness techniques to provide counseling that is tailored to each person’s individual needs.  I provide an LGBT*QIA+ and Sex-Positive approach to create an open and accepting environment free of judgment and stigma.  ​

Pronouns: she/her, he/him, they/them
​Locations: Telehealth

Emalie Coplan

LMFT, She/They

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Client-centered and trauma-informed, I enjoy supporting individuals & couples through interpersonal conflict, depression, anxiety, and trauma work.  I work with LGBTQIA+ folx, older teens, adults, couples, and non-traditional family systems. 

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My  approach is rooted in a belief that healing happens in relationship to others and that personal, interpersonal, and societal transformation are deeply connected. My practice is informed by narrative, collaborative, somatic, mindfulness based, critical, and relational therapies in order to shift how we hold pain in our bodies, our stories, and our relationships. LGBTQIA+-identified provider.

​​Prounouns: She/They
​Locations: Nicollet, Telehealth

Jari Welle

LMFT, She/Her

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My interests include relationships, adults and couples, interpersonal communication, sexuality, health/chronic pain, life transitions, spirituality, and creativity. I often use grounding methods in my work and am trained in embodied practices.

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I deeply value holding space for couples as well as individuals, and enjoy working within relational dynamics. As a trained Yoga teacher, I often incorporate mindfulness, meditation, and cognitive coaching strategies to support my clients in making holistic, embodied change within themselves and their relationships.

​Pronouns: She/her
Locations: St Louis Park, Telehealth

Isabelle Lankhorst

LMFT, She/They

email & appointments

Focus areas include body image (HAES), obsessions and compulsions, anxiety, launching into adulthood or new life phases, desire, sexual pain, intimacy, and power play/differentials in relationships. I'm passionate about working with adults on concerns surrounding body image, sex and sexuality, trauma, and the intersections of all three.  

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I have strong lenses in fat and queer liberation, attachment theory, and primarily view trauma through EMDR and the body's lived experience under white supremacist systems of oppression. I also welcome those in or interested in non-monogamous relationships, as well as neurodivergent folk.
Pronouns: She/They
Locations: Telehealth only

Maggie Druschel

MSW, LICSW, They/Them

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I work with people, individually and relationally, around themes of identity exploration, life transitions, climate grief and climate anxiety, developing boundaries, and communication skills. I am particularly energized by work at the liberatory intersections of disability, transness, and fatness. 

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My work centers the influences of identity and societal context on lived experiences and mental health. As a white, small fat, disabled, trans and queer person, I know that an identity-conscious and liberatory approach is itself part of therapeutic and healing work. I work collaboratively with folks to create spaces and relationships that are anti-racist, anti-colonialist, anti-ableist, and resist internalized and externalized fatphobia, queer- and transphobia, and shame of all forms.

My approach incorporates narrative therapy; attachment theory; trans, queer, and fat liberation; disability justice; somatic and embodiment practices; and the AIR Network model for treating complex trauma and working with people with dissociative abilities. I strive for all of my work to be sex-positive, affirming, relational, collaborative, and client-centered.
Locations: Lyndale & Telehealth

Andrew Kishel

LICSW, He/Him

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I work with adult individuals on trauma, mood, and connection with others. I have a special interest in working with people who have been oppressed or excluded because of non-dominant spiritual beliefs, lived LGBTQIA+ experience, homelessness or substance use. DBT/Polyvagal provider.

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It is my job to create a compassionate space to process your struggles and focus your aspirations.  My approach draws from science about the nervous system (polyvagal/interpersonal neurobiology), DBT, parts work (IFS), acceptance and commitment therapy, and mindfulness. 
 
I am a sex-positive and affirming therapist and I strive to understand and honor the many ways social justice and mental health are connected.  I form a collaborative and nonjudgmental relationship with each of my clients that we use to recognize, prepare, and move forward.

Pronouns: he/him
Locations: Lyndale, teletherapy

Bekkah Olson

MSW, LGSW, They/Them

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My current work focuses on sex therapy. Additionally, I work with adults and older teens– especially queer, trans and LGTBQIA+ people —around issues of mood, attachment, addiction, and identity. I enjoy helping clients explore what mental, emotional, and sexual health mean in their own lives and relationships.

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I believe that everyone has the right to sexual health. I specialize in working with individuals whose bodies, identities, or experiences of desire fall outside of dominant cultural norms. My approach is sex-positive, queer/trans inclusive, and affirming of BDSM, kink, and non-monogamous relationships. My therapeutic style is informed by principles of narrative therapy, which positions the client as the expert of their own life, and systems theory, which considers the role of the systems impacting the individual. My areas of interest include racial identity, disability justice, chemical health, and harm reduction. I am interested in the ways in which our bodies store memory and emotion, and the possibilities for how we might unlearn pain. 
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Pronouns: they/them
​Locations: St. Louis Park, Telehealth

Elissa Allen

MSW, LICSW, She/Her

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I enjoy work with teens, adults, and relationships particularly around issues of trauma, anxiety/depression, sexuality & emerging identity, self-esteem, and mood regulation. I enjoy working with LGTBQIA+ individuals and center a feeling of safety as the basis for both narrative exploration and trauma-informed care.

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I bring humor, compassion, and pragmatism to the work. I have an empathic, direct style and enjoy partnering with adolescents (and adults) to work through life transitions, identifying meaningful steps for change while holding and cultivating identity, at any age. A queer-identified provider.

Pronouns: She/her
Locations: Lyndale, Teletherapy

Olivia
Schwendinger

MA, She/Her

email & appointments

I am passionate about supporting adults and families/partnerships across the spectrum navigate through relational connection and challenge, identity exploration, sexuality, marginalization, and life changes. I support diverse family structures, centering individual experiences within greater systems.

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I am committed to providing a therapeutic space that is collaborative, affirmative, and supportive, centering your unique lived experience. As a systemic thinker, I strive to validate the intersections of mental wellbeing and social constructs with a social justice lens. Compassion and celebration of all parts and a genuine belief in the human ability to grow are at the center of my approach. I hold a Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy.
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Pronouns: She/her
Locations: Teletherapy, Nicollet

Deidra Ennis

Clinical Practicum, They/Them

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I deeply enjoy working with adults, teens, and couples. I have experience working with topics like: anxiety, attachment issues, gender & sexual identity/lived experience, body image/fatphobia, and climate anxiety.

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I view therapy as a place for people to share and experience their full selves- the awesome stuff, the not so great stuff, and everything in between. My approach to therapy is trauma-informed, client-centered, and justice oriented. This means that you can expect me to honor your personal experiences as a person, discuss how society influences our lives, and how healing can help the general collective.
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Locations: Nicollet, St Louis Park, Telehealth

Maya Bergman-Corbet

Clinical Practicum, She/Her

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I enjoy working with people and families of all ages and configurations. I have a particular interest in neurodiversity, chronic illness, life transitions, anxiety, depression, and trauma. My practice is grounded in sex positive, anti-oppressive, and liberation ethics. 

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Locations: Lyndale, Telehealth

Julia Hagen

MS, She/Her

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I approach from a systemic and feminist framework. My clinical interests include individual and couples’ therapy focusing on sexuality and gender, sense of self, sexual behaviors and pleasure, kink, BDSM, non-monogamy and polyamory, and sexual shame. ​

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I enjoy working with clients of all ages and stage of life to live congruently and work towards balance in all aspects of life. I incorporate a systemic lens to help clients identify the influence of one’s family system and greater social systems on their presenting issues, and try to incorporate humor and genuine connection in each of my therapeutic relationships. ​

Locations: Telehealth, St. Louis Park

Abi Farmer

Clinical Practicum, She/They

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I work with teens and adults, particularly neurodivergent and LGBTQIA+ individuals, in addressing difficulties related to mood regulation, trauma, self-image, and identity. I enjoy helping clients to explore what mental and emotional health means to them in their lives and relationships. I am a board certified music therapist and I enjoy using music as a therapeutic tool in session.​​

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 I use compassion and humor to create a safe and collaborative therapeutic space. My approach is intersectional, sex-positive, queer/trans inclusive, and social-justice oriented. I strive to practice therapy that is affirming, client-centered, and free of judgement.
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​Locations: St Louis Park, Telehealth

Ashley Hansen

MSW, LGSW, She/Her

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I enjoy working with individuals and partnered adults interested in exploring sexual identity, reducing shame related to sexuality, and increasing intimacy. Other areas of interest include depression and anxiety, self-image, trauma, effective communication and boundary setting, chronic illness/pain, life transitions, grief and loss, executive dysfunction, somatic manifestation of trauma, and emotional regulation. ​​

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My approach is warm, empathic, and relaxed. I value a collaborative, relational approach where the client is trusted as the expert. My work is informed by a systems-based, trauma-informed lens. I am committed to meeting my clients with unconditional positive regard and affirming care that acknowledges the intersections of their identities. I am HAES aligned and enjoy exploring the intersection of fatness, queerness, and disability. I view the therapeutic relationship as ever-evolving and value feedback to tailor an individual approach that feels most beneficial and comfortable to you.
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Locations: St Louis Park and Telehealth

Cloud Erickson

Clinical Practicum, They/Them

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I enjoy working with late teens and adults around identity, gender, sexuality, spirituality, anxiety, self-worth, and all the many ways we construct meaning in life. I have a strong interest in working with queer and trans individuals, as well as folks exploring kink, consensual nonmonogamy and polyamory, and de/reconstructing spirituality.

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I strive to create a non-judgmental, sex positive, space for individuals to find the voice of their values, boundaries, and desires. My goal is to create a therapeutic alliance and relationship where individuals can engage their emotions, explore desire and pleasure, and engage and make sense of the sometimes-conflicting parts of themselves. I believe therapy and social work are inherently political and strive to help individuals build the best lives they can in face of political, social, and economic oppression.

My approach draws upon a variety of modalities such as narrative therapy, mindfulness, solution focused therapy, and self-compassion. I also draw upon principles of DBT and somatic and embodiment practices, as well as from the existential and humanistic schools of thought, attachment theory, conflict theory and marxism, feminism, and queer, trans, and fat liberation movements.

Locations: Lyndale, Telehealth

Shiloh Edwardh

Clinical Practicum, They/She

Email & Appointments

I specialize in working with queer and trans individuals, and particularly enjoy working with individuals exploring gender and sexuality. I also work with individuals who are navigating relationships/polyamory, sexual identity and sexual health, neurodiversity, and complex trauma.

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I center my work around anti-colonialism & anti-capitalism, anti-racism, and queer liberation. I believe in the power of presence, connection, and laughter. As a queer clinician, I work from an affirming, sex positive, trauma-informed, and client-centered lens, taking influences from existential theory, attachment theory, queer ecofeminism, relational, and mindfulness and somatic approaches. I value connecting to nature and the natural world as a therapeutic approach.

​Location: Telehealth and Lyndale

Cara Mielke

LMFT, She/Her

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I enjoy helping clients navigate issues related to sexual functioning and desire within the context of individuals and relationships.  I work from a systemic perspective with people from all relationship styles and identities.

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My work is collaborative, and I strive to promote opportunities for positive change in the lives of those I encounter.  In addition I am a certified ​PREPARE/ENRICH 
facilitator and can work with couples as the begin to grow their lives together. 

Prounouns: she/her
Locations: St. Louis Park, Teletherapy

Contessa Johnson

LPCC, She/Her

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Trained in EMDR, I am experienced working with individuals and couples from a relational, inclusive, and trauma-informed place.

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I am a believer that our sexual identities are an essential component of our personhood. My goal as a sex and relationship counselor is to create a safe place for clients to learn how to overcome trauma on a journey towards enjoying their own sexuality to the fullest. I am experienced working from a sex-positive lens to discuss how healthy boundaries, communication, and self-acceptance can enhance our lives. We can work together to evaluate what messages were received about values, bodies, relationships, and sexual behaviors to support the most authentic expressions of self.

Focus Areas:
Adults, couples, sexual health, individual psychotherapy, group therapy

Pronouns: she/her
Locations: Nicollet, Teletherapy

Kel Harding

MSW, LISW, She/Her

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I enjoy working with adult and older teens on concerns related to anxiety/depression, trauma, spiritual/faith transitions, life stressors, mood regulation, and difficult relationships with self or others.

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My professional background includes over 15 years of community nonprofit work and I am familiar with topics including insufficient income, immigration (including 2nd and 3rd generation individuals), multiple mental health diagnoses, criminal justice system involvement, child/adult protection involvement, and other ‘systems’ concerns.  I am a Queer and Trans affirming provider. I explore ways of moving forward that are practical and work in your day-to-day life and I have been described by others as reflective, thoughtful, compassionate, and pragmatic.

Pronouns: she/her
Locations: Nicollet, Teletherapy


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Trelawney Cernuto

LAMFT, She/Her

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I work with individuals, partners and families and my areas of focus include mood, trauma, attachment, queer identity, personal exploration, body image, neurodiversity, and substance use.

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I work with clients of all ages, gender identities, sexual orientations, and relationship structures, and welcome individuals, partners, and families. I am guided by EFT (emotionally-focused therapy), narrative, and experiential models and work from a trauma-informed and attachment-focused lens. My focuses are mood issues, trauma (developmental, complex, and situational), attachment issues, identity exploration, body image, neurodiversity, and substance use.
 
As someone with a systemic training background, I focus on relationships, whether to yourself (your emotions, sexuality, gender, life experiences, etc.), to your partner(s), friends, and family, or your relationships to larger social and global systems of relational power. I aim to create a safe, empowering, and sex-positive space for you to begin to explore what feeds you and work to gain tools that support you living as your authentic self.

Pronouns: she/her
Locations: Lyndale, Teletherapy

Sara Goldstein

Clinical Practicum, They/Them

NOTE: Not accepting new clients
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I particularly enjoy working with adults and older teenagers and specialize in the areas of mood, sexuality, gender, marginalization, life changes, sexual violence, and identity exploration. My therapeutic approach is at its core client-centered, trauma-informed, and collaborative. 

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Kristy Gloe-Thordin

MSW, LICSW, They/Them

email & appointments

My approach to therapy is trauma-informed, client-centered, sex positive and anti-oppressive. I enjoy working with queer and trans folks and supporting people in the process of gender exploration and transition.  I especially enjoy working with young people and am experienced in supporting folks in processing trauma, anxiety and depression.