Shoshana Rivers

CLINICAL PRACTICUM

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I care deeply about supporting people to cultivate healthy, nourishing relationships with their loved ones, their community, their spirituality, their sexuality, and most importantly, themselves.

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​​I specialize in parts work, developmental trauma, and working with those who hold one or more marginalized identities including BIPOC, immigrants, Jews, LGBTQIA+ folks and those who are differently-abled, neuro-diverse and and/or in non-normative relationship structures.  In addition to working with adults, I love working with children, teens, young adults, couples, and families. I incorporate a wide range of tools in my practice depending on clients interests and needs including Internal Family Systems, somatic embodiment and movement, storytelling, ancestral healing, astrology, visioning, art, ritual and writing. I am currently working toward getting certified as a sex therapist and am passionate about therapeutic work related to gender, sexuality, sex, and sexual trauma.
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Pronouns: She/they
​Locations: S. Minneapolis, Telehealth

Ben Powers 

MA, LPCC

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I specialize in helping individuals experiencing difficulties related to gender and sexuality, chemical dependency and family change.
​I provide an LGBT*QIA+ 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: he/him, they/them
​Locations: S. Minneapolis, Telehealth

Madigan Shank

MSW, LGSW

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 I work with the LGBTQIA+ community, non-monogamous clients, and clients who have struggled to find a place in the therapeutic environment. My focus is on adolescents as well as adults with a background in trauma, attachment, gender and sexuality, and issues relating to food and body image.

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I enjoy working with adolescents and adults working through trauma—with specific interest in early childhood/complex trauma and sexual trauma—attachment, dissociation, self-esteem, gender and sexuality, and issues relating to food and body image.
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I accept individuals, families, and couples seeking to increase connection and learn tools for interpersonal healing and the development of deeper communication channels.

I am trained in Somatic Experiencing and integrate DBT, CBT, narrative, mindfulness, and other creative methods based on the needs and desires of the individual. I strive to create a safer space that is free from judgment, through which clients can find self-empowerment to explore and heal. Through a social justice lens, I work with the LGBTQIA+ community, non-monagamous clients, and clients who have struggled to find a place in a therapeutic environment.

Pronouns: They/them
Locations: Edina & Telehealth

Isabelle Lankhorst

MA, LMFT

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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.

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I am a sex and relationship therapist focusing on issues of trauma and attachment. I enjoy working with couples in a tough place, such as those deciding whether to open up the relationship or close it off. Finally, I like working with adolescents and young adults, and have experience working with families around sexual trauma and development. I also practice using EMDR.

Pronouns: she/her
Locaations: Telehealth only

Bekkah Olson

MSW, LGSW

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I work with teenagers and adults, especially LGBTQIA+ individuals, around issues of mood, attachment, trauma, 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

Joanna Diem 

MA, LMFT

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My areas of special interest include families coping with chemical addictions, anxiety & depression, grief & loss, and intimate relationships.

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I empower couples, individuals, and families to overcome personal obstacles. I assist my clients to find an understanding of themselves in order to strengthen their connections and their relationships. I am a relational therapist and have my degree in Marriage and Family Therapy.

​Pronouns: she/her
Locations: St. Louis Park, Teletherapy

Amanda Hohag

MS, LMFT

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I enjoy working with adolescents (15+), adults, and couples to ground, address anxiety, depression, self-esteem, grief/loss, and interfamilial/relational concerns.  I provide a collaborative space to explore, challenge, and change patterns that no longer serve you. A sex-positive provider.    

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Therapy is a unique opportunity to explore ourselves, and how we relate to others, in an intentional way.  I’ve been providing therapy for 10+ years and believe a supportive therapeutic relationship is the foundation for a meaningful therapy experience.  You can expect compassion, curiosity, and even humor to be a part of our work together.  I love to support clients in both symptom reduction, as well as improved wellness and a better sense of self.

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


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Kristy Gloe-Thordin

MSW, LICSW

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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. 

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 I also enjoy supporting folks that identify as being on autism spectrum, and I appreciate the beauty and value of neurodiversity.   My approach is informed by narrative therapy principles, which is another way of saying that I believe that therapy is a place where we can examine the stories that are told about us and chosen for us, and begin to find and name our own, authentic alternatives to these stories. 
I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. I completed my Masters of Social Work through the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. 
Pronouns: They/them, she/her
Locations:  Teletherapy, Nicollet
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Anne Bauers 

MA, LMFT

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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.

Pronouns​: she/her
Locations: S. Minneapolis, Telehealth

Jari Welle

MA, LMFT

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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: Lyndale, Telehealth

Maggie Druschel

MSW, LICSW

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Pronouns: They/Them
I enjoy working with adults & older teens around themes of early childhood/complex
trauma, identity exploration, queer and trans liberation, alternative relationship styles, internalized oppression, fat liberation, interpersonal issues, and impacted life functioning.

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 I welcome clients who are queer & trans, people of all relationships styles, and people experiencing oppression and marginalization.

My theoretical framework is rooted in liberation psychology and multicultural feminist theory, which means that I center liberation and the influences of identity and societal
context on lived experiences. I continue to engage with these concepts as they evolve and inform my work towards being anti-racist and anti-colonial. My approach incorporates Narrative Therapy, Attachment Theory, polyvagal
neurobiology, and the Adaptive Internal Relational (AIR) Network model for treating complex trauma and people with dissociative abilities. I strive to create a sex-positive,
affirming, safer space free from judgement, in which to engage in a therapeutic relationship that is client-centered and collaborative.

Pronouns: They/Them
Locations: Lyndale & Telehealth

Olivia Schwendinger

Clinical Practicum

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I am passionate about supporting adults and families/partnership across the spectrum navigate through gender role exploration, identity, sexuality, marginalization, life changes, and relational connection. 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.

Pronouns: She/her
Locations: Teletherapy, Nicollet

Cara Mielke

MA, LMFT

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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

Trelawney Cernuto

MA, LAMFT

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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

Jackie Jasken 

MA, LMFT

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I take special interest in working with individuals who are experiencing relationship issues due to self-esteem/body concerns, anxiety, and depression as well as family system issues. Not accepting new clients at this time.

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I am a relational therapist and have experience working with individuals and families coping with chemical dependency and substance abuse. Other interests include working with individuals struggling with depression, anxiety, intimacy, and communication with others.

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

Rachel Bauer

MS, MHP

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​I specialize in working with couples, individuals, and families experiencing inter-relational conflict with a focus on relationship. Other areas of focus include: substance use, grief, navigating kink/BDSM, and Health at Every Size/body image work.​

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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, different levels of sexual desire, divorce, coparenting, managing non-normative 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 welcome clients of all relationship styles and backgrounds.

Pronouns: she/her​
Locations: S. Minneapolis, Telehealth

Emalie Coplan

MA, LAMFT

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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/her
​Locations: S. Minneapolis, Telehealth

Andrew Kishel

MSW, LICSW

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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

Allen Stock

MA, LP

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Allen Stock is a Licensed Psychologist who specializes in neurocognitive and diagnostic assessment of children, adolescents and adults.

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His work includes: ADHD, learning disorders/disabilities, mood disorders (like depression or anxiety), memory and executive function deficits, emotional and behavioral issues, Autism Spectrum Disorders, substance abuse, traumatic brain injury and chronic/persistent mental illness.

​Allen is a life-long resident of the Twin Cities.  He has worked as a mental health professional in the Twin Cities since 1986 (LP since 1992). Allen has conducted assessments in clinical and academic (k-12 and post-secondary) settings, for forensic purposes and in correctional facilities throughout Minnesota. Allen works in collaboration with all concerned parties to formulate a comprehensive evaluation and treatment plan.

Pronouns: he/him
Locations: Edina, St. Louis Park

Contessa Johnson

MA, LPCC

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Trauma-informed, I'm experienced working with couples, adults, and teens with anxiety and depression, trauma, and addictive cycles. I work from a sex-positive lens to discuss how healthy boundaries, communication, and self-acceptance can enhance our lives. EMDR certified.

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I am passionate about working with issues related to sexual health because I believe sexuality is 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 enjoy their own sexuality to the fullest. I am experienced working with adults and teens from a sex-positive lens to discuss how healthy boundaries, communication, and self-acceptance can enhance our lives. My approach is to evaluate what messages one may have received about values, bodies, relationships, and sexual behaviors in order to encourage a more authentic expression of self.

Focus Areas:
Adults, couples, sexual health, individual psychotherapy, group therapy, psychosexual evaluations. Eclectic approach: Client-centered, psychodynamic, existential, behavioral, CBT, EMDR, DBT, systems, as tailored to the client’s needs.

Pronouns: she/her
Locations: S. Minneapolis, Teletherapy

Morgan Sieglaff

MS, LAMFT

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I work with individuals, couples, trauma, and sexuality.  I have a sex-positive approach to my relational work and I am affirming of kink, non-monogamy, and LGBTQIA+ relationships and communities. EMDR trained.

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I'm experienced as a sexual assault advocate and am passionate about providing excellent care to victim-survivors of sexual violence, both individually and in partnership. I hold my Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, with a certificate in sex therapy, and deeply appreciate working with relationships of all kinds, at all phases, as well as with sex and sexuality directly.  I embrace and emphasize intersectionality in life and the complexities of the world around us.  As a bisexual, biracial Latina, I am passionate about defining your identities as YOU see fit. I firmly believe that you are the expert of your own life; however, I will seek to support you in meaningful ways and together we may be able to create a new path and perspective for your story.

​Pronouns: she/her
Locations: St. Louis Park, Telehealth

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Florence Blessing

MA, MCP

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My goal is to support you in creating space for your most authentic and empowered self to emerge. I work with the understanding that we each have a unique path to walk, tender pieces to hold, and gifts to share. Guided by Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), I’m passionate about healing within all forms of relationship; to yourself, to others, and the world at large.  Pronouns: She/her, they/them

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My approach is centered on deconstructing the ways that systems of oppression have become ingrained in ourselves and our social contexts, investigating the impact of these systems on our experiences with race, gender, sexuality, ability, and our movement through the world. 

I hope to explore with you, to honor you, and to perhaps challenge some restricting notions along the way. I am here to support you individually, with your partner(s), or within your family system. My practice is trauma-informed, anti-oppressive and LGBT*QIA+ affirming. I am particularly interested in working with those exploring minority identity, gender and sexuality or navigating accessibility. 


Pronouns: She/her, they/them
Locations:  Teletherapy, Nicollet