HealthPartners of MN and WI Therapists in Maple Grove, MN

We Hear You. We See You. You Matter. We are proud to provide an environment of a calm, peaceful setting. This will be the place you want to come, an oasis from the outside world, and an opportunity to work with a therapist that is able to provide the therapy type that you need. We believe that providing an environment that is warm and welcoming, where you can focus solely on building a trust-based connection with the therapist that meets your needs is vital to your personal healing process and sets you up for success, and provides coping skills to apply as you experience challenges throughout your life.

I hold a strong cultural value in treating people with dignity and respect. Much of my clinical work has been focused on helping people to recover a sense of themselves in the midst of highly traumatic and frequently chaotic lives. My delivery of services is competency-based and culturally focused in a way that promotes healing and liberation. I may be the right fit for clients who are seeking support with understanding the impact of historical, individual, cultural, and intergenerational trauma, as well as identity development particularly relating to gender identity/expression, and sexual orientation.

My primary goal with therapy is to assist clients on their journey towards an increased sense of self awareness, understanding, and acceptance. I am passionate about working with adults of all ages, couples, and families. I also have experience working with co-occurring (mental health and substance abuse) disorders.

I work primarily with adolescent and adult clients that have experienced various traumatic events in their lives. Often times individuals are unaware of the impact that these events have had and continue to have on their day to day lives. I work with individuals to help them learn more about what events are traumatic to them and increase their awareness of how those events continue to impact relationships, work performance, school performance, etc. I am dedicated to helping my clients identify their goals and teach them skills to reach these goals while learning how to navigate and manage life circumstances.

Are you struggling with emotional and/or relationship issues and not sure how to deal with them? Seeking help is not easy and I recognize it takes courage to take that first step to reach out to a professional. For that reason, I use gentle, compassionate, and affirming methods to create a safe environment and work at a pace that is most comfortable to you. Sometimes it’s easy to talk about the issues and at other times, it feels too private or painful to reveal. When memories are too painful to share I can even work with them silently. I also incorporate many holistic approaches, honoring the mind, body and spirit connection.

Do you feel on-edge, worried, or frustrated more than you'd like? Are you distracted and struggling to focus or follow through on tasks that are usually no big deal? Is your high intensity job pushing you to your limit? These are the things I can and want to help you resolve! I work well with ANXIETY (i.e. stress, frustration, overwhelmed, hard to focus, irritable), GRIEF/LOSS (i.e. loss of loved ones, breakups, job changes, life phase problems), and treatment of TRAUMA (i.e. feeling stuck in the past, "on-alert", nightmares, don't trust people, panic attacks).