Parenting Therapists in Golden Valley, MN

Life has difficult challenges that we all face. Whether you are currently experiencing relational difficulties, a painful life transition, parenting issues, grief and loss, or just feel stuck, I would like to help you move towards the life you envision for yourself. Let's work together and examine what is holding you back from living your life to the fullest and work towards making the changes necessary to live your life authentically and fully.

There are times when life feels unbearable. Being off-balance mentally, emotionally, physically, socially, or spiritually makes it hard to be resilient and hopeful. My style is to be compassionate and direct in helping you unpack challenges such as living with ADHD, figure out relationship issues, manage parenting struggles, or transition to a new phase in life. I enjoy helping women of any age utilize their strengths to find hope and courage in redefining themselves to step into a higher level of their own power.

I consider it a privilege to hear your story and to collaborate with you to identify and encourage possible steps toward a more peaceful and satisfying life and relationships. My past experience with children and families in churches, in culturally diverse schools, and in supervised court-ordered visits between nonresidential parents and their children has equipped me to help children and parents with behavioral issues, resulting individual or marital stress, and issues of loss -- death, divorce, disasters and disappointment.

It is my experience that the fullest, most satisfying healing involves our whole person, mind, body, and spirit. By focusing on patterns of movement in the body as well as thinking, we work together to achieve your goals for therapy. A body based and energetic focus is often a new and effective way for people to resolve issues that only talking about them did not reach. I look for resistance and protective actions that no longer serve a person. I emphasize developing aliveness in the body, feeling joyful, free, and peace.

Ingrid has experience in working in counseling for over 9 years. She works with children 8+ years, teens and adults who struggle with depression, anxiety, trauma, relational or family issues, parent coaching, student issues, life transitions adjustment, spiritual issues, immigration adjustment, health issues, death and loss, adoption, among other disorders. She offers therapy in Spanish (Terapia en Español).

My goal as a licensed psychologist is to help my clients create the change they seek in order to live their best life possible. People seek my help at various points in their life for a number of different issues. Regardless of where you are in your journey, seeking help is the first step toward achieving goals, reducing symptoms and increasing personal, life and relationship satisfaction. I work together with clients in order to achieve the life satisfaction and wellness they seek and deserve.

My work involves providing therapeutic support for people struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, as well as parenting , family and couple conflict. I am a Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist, and focus on Level 1 Autism, or what use to be called Asperger's Syndrome. I am also happy to work with individuals that are experiencing loss, grief, and spiritual questioning/transition.

I enjoy working with individuals ages 16 and older, from all walks of life. I dedicate my work to helping individuals navigate through major life transitions, anxiety, depression, relational problems, trauma, parenting challenges, grief/loss, eating disorder, body image concerns, identity development (especially with LGBTQ populations), personal growth and development.

Life can be hard. You may worry too much. Maybe you have difficulty finding the energy to do what you need to do. Or saying things that you regret later. Maybe you have trouble concentrating and focusing. And sometimes the hopes and dreams you have for the future don't always turn out the way you expected. When these things happen, you may forget how to draw on your strengths and capabilities to make things different for yourself. I can help you rediscover strengths as well as develop new, effective strategies for bringing back your joy for living and having deeper, more meaningful relationships.

I believe in creating a safe space for people to process life's difficulties. I enjoy helping clients learn how to use their inner strengths to obtain contentment with a variety of life's issues. I specialize in ASD and related disorders. I have worked along side children and parents to help manage the day to day struggle unique to these diagnoses. I have supported clients at home, worked with educators and developed strategies for community involvement. I have a passion for helping children, adolescents, teenagers and their parents manage the problems and stressors that come with having ASD and other executive functioning issues.

Life can be hard and when it is you may feel alone, but you don't have to be. Have you felt anxious, overwhelmed, sad, hopeless, or angry? Do you or your child have trouble concentrating on one thing at a time? Do you ever wonder what is happening to my child? Have you wondered where are all of these feelings coming from? Or, do you just want to talk to someone who will listen? If you have answered yes to any of these questions I can help you. I will offer you a safe space to work through all of those feelings.

I provide therapy through a strengths-based, trauma-focused lens, and view each person as a resilient individual system capable of developing agency of their lived story and gaining mastery of their whole self. My clients include individuals and families living with challenges complicated by mental illness, emotional and behavioral disorders, trauma and family violence. My therapy services and community provider trainings are designed to provide an holistic and trauma-informed, culturally-attuned approach to understanding and healing from the abuse and trauma affecting individuals, relationships, families and systems.

Are you struggling with anxiety, depression, or trauma? Is your child struggling with their behaviors, especially during transitions, like bedtime, or getting ready for school? I may be able to help. I specialize with working with both children and adults, ages 5+, to help ease suffering and improve overall functioning. I can work with parents to help solve problems with their children, provide support for the difficulty of parenting , and psychoeducation about the challenges their child is facing. I also have experience with clients who struggle with trauma, grief, self-harm and suicidality.

Are you struggling with having enough strength to get up every day and take care of yourself or engage in your responsibilities? Are you a woman trying to parent and figure out how to overcome generational stress or trauma? Be the best mom you can be? You know you're living a better life than you had but something still feels like it's missing? Are you making bad choices in relationships and with men? You're smart and you know better but you're stuck in a cycle? Are you married and struggling to like one another but you know you want to work it out? You've read so many books, done so much self-help you're going to explode.

My passion is helping people to create and live their best life. I believe that values, acceptance, compassion, and forgiveness are the keys to leading a meaningful life while managing life’s curveballs. While I will approach our work together with genuine care and unconditional acceptance, I also believe that being able to explore a different way of seeing things is helpful. My own life experiences help me to relate to people at all life stages including early adulthood, parenting , divorce and starting over and the changes associated with transition to retirement. Together we can utilize your strengths to find your best self.

I believe good therapy involves having a positive healing experience that includes your whole self and can be translated to your everyday life. I utilize creative approaches along with concrete tools to assist your body, mind and spirit with building a greater sense of safety and calm, leading to growth and connection with self and others. I especially welcome families or individuals navigating growth and change; parents of children with chronic health needs; couples seeking greater connection in their relationship; or individual adults seeking body-centered care for trauma, anxiety, or depression.