Location
If clients have particularly high risk lives or have high risk employment, I may decide that we need to meet virtually.
About
I work with clients experientially to feel deeply into their own emotions that may be locked away. I seek out glimmers of core emotion in the present moment -- that is where the magic or possibility for change lives. I help clients learn to relate to people in a healthier, more wholesome way -- this may be learning to reach out, or it may mean having a sense of what you need and want so you can get those needs met in your relationships. I work by listening closely and pushing clients know what's going on internally. I tell them what I am feeling and ask clients to be in touch with their bodies and feeling not just their thinking.
My interest is to work on a deeper level with clients on big and small traumas. My work is to gently assist clients to know themselves--their raw thoughts, feelings, and their sensations. Some times building a simple meditation practice is a tool to get there.
I work for myself because I want to be able to develop trusting, potentially long-term relationships with clients, unhindered by a clinic. I see adults, couples, and adolescents. I am the past president of the Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. I have been training in a therapy model called AEDP as well as ISTDP. I am a level 3 AEDP therapist.
Call or Email Joel Grostephan for a free 15 minute consultation now - (612) 839-5853
Finances
- Session Fee: $150 per session
- Sliding Scale: Yes
Pay By:
Cash, Check, Health Savings Account, Mastercard, Paypal, Visa
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Anthem
- BHP
- Blue Cross
- Blue Shield
- BlueCross and BlueShield
- PreferredOne
- UCare
- Out of Network
Verify your health insurance coverage when you arrange your first visit.
Qualifications
- License: Minnesota / 20930
- School: University of Minnesota School of Social Work
- Year Graduated: 2011
Additional Credentials
- Certificate: Society of Psychoanalytic Studies
- Certificate: Minnesota Society for Clinical Social Workers
Endorsements
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LICSW
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MA, LICSW
Counselor, MA, LPCC
Psychologist, MA, LP
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, CST
Location
Specialties
- Relationship Issues
- Depression
- Trauma and PTSD
Issues
- Alcohol Use
- Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder
- Child
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Life Transitions
- Men's Issues
- Peer Relationships
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Sexual Abuse
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Ideation
Mental Health
- Mood Disorders
- Personality Disorders
Sexuality
- Bisexual
- LGBTQ+
- Lesbian
Client Focus
Ethnicity:
Black and African American and Hispanic and Latino
I also speak:
I speak Spanish but cannot do therapy in Spanish.
Faith:
Buddhist
Age
- Elders (65+)
- Adults
- Teen
- Preteen
Communities
- Gay Allied
- Lesbian Allied
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- AEDP
- Attachment-based
- Culturally Sensitive
- Eclectic
- Emotionally Focused
- Family / Marital
- Integrative
- Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)
- Interpersonal
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
- Trauma Focused
Modality
- Individuals
- Couples
- Group
Last Modified: 25 Oct 2022
(612) 839-5853