Sara Goldstein

Clinical Practicum, They/She

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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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I am passionate about creating a space for clients that is affirming and validating where we can explore life’s challenges together.
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Locations: Lyndale, 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.
My work is grounded in queer theory, fat liberation, disability justice, depathologizing, and liberatory practices.

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I am a white, queer, non-binary, fat, and neurodivergent pre-licensed therapist. As a pre-licensed therapist, I meet with clients independently and receive supervision and consultation about how to support clients in the best ways possible from fully licensed clinicians. 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/Her

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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 am committed to supporting adults, teens, families, and partners across a wide range of lived experience. At my core is an orientation towards holding space and understanding about how the larger factors in life can affect mental health and the health of families and partnerships of all kinds.

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I care deeply about providing support for folks with identities that are impacted by systemic oppression and making sure there is a collaborative and supportive environment to discuss intersecting identities. ​

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

Sinta Fergus

MSW, LGSW, She/Her

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

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

Isabelle Lankhorst

LMFT, She/They

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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. 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

Bekkah Olson

MSW, LGSW, They/Them

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​My current work focuses primarily on sex therapy. Additionally I work queer and trans adults, around issues of depression, anxiety and 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

Anne Bauers 

LMFT, She/Her

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

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

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

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

Rachel Bauer

LAMFT, She/Her

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

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

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

Olivia Schwendinger

MA, She/Her

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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

Abi Farmer

Clinical Practicum, She/Her

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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/or deconstructing/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

Deidra Ennis

Clinical Practicum, They/Them

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I enjoy working with LGBTQIA+ clients, teens, young adults, and adult populations. I work with clients around topics of divorce, family change, anxiety, depression, relationships, and gender and sexual identity.

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Clients can expect me to meet them with non-judgement and care in our sessions. I believe in working collaboratively with clients, bringing our own valuable skills to the table. 
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Locations: Lyndale, 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

Sam Trewick

MA, He/They/Sam

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I am a trauma-informed, mindfulness-based counselor, and I often integrate meditation, movement, breath practices, spirit, art and music, neurology, and attachment theory into my sessions. I specialize in complex trauma among queer folx. 

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I feel a deep connection to people who struggle with their sexuality, body image, trauma of all kinds, and systemic oppression. I am a member of the queer/gender non-conforming community, and take a social justice approach to therapy.

I am inspired by the notion that everything we need for healing already resides within us, but we sometimes require help in accessing it. Tears and belly laughs are equally likely during a session and it’s my belief both hold inherent healing potential.

​My focus in therapy is on collaborating with clients to form a safe, healing container in which both strengths and struggles can safely arise and be worked with. 

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.

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Adults, couples, sexual health, individual psychotherapy, group therapy

Pronouns: she/her
Locations: Nicollet, Teletherapy

Kel Harding

MSW, LGSW, 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

Morgan Sieglaff

LAMFT, She/Her

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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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Kristy Gloe-Thordin

MSW, LICSW, They/Them

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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
Locations:  Teletherapy, Nicollet
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Jackie Jasken 

LMFT, She/Her

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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. 

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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: Teletherapy

Florence Blessing

MCP, He/They

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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. 

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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: they/them
Locations:  Teletherapy, Lyndale