Parenting Therapists in Minneapolis, MN
Larry is the owner and co-founder of Kente Circle. He identifies himself as a relational therapist and believes that isolation is a major cause of mental illness and the cure for this disease lies within relationships. Larry enjoys helping individuals, couples and families navigate life's challenges. He believes that everyone has strength that can aid them at their lowest moments in life. His approach is grounded in focusing on each person's strengths.
Larry is the owner and co-founder of Kente Circle. He identifies himself as a relational therapist and believes that isolation is a major cause of mental illness and the cure for this disease lies within relationships. Larry enjoys helping individuals, couples and families navigate life's challenges. He believes that everyone has strength that can aid them at their lowest moments in life. His approach is grounded in focusing on each person's strengths.
I specialize in working with children, adolescents, young adults, and parents navigating anxiety, ADHD, emotional dysregulation, behavioral challenges, OCD, life transitions, and neurodivergence.
My approach is warm, collaborative, and evidence-based. I integrate CBT, DBT, ACT, ERP, PCIT, and SPACE while tailoring treatment to each client's strengths and goals. I provide neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed care that helps clients build coping skills, improve relationships, and navigate challenges with greater confidence.
I specialize in working with children, adolescents, young adults, and parents navigating anxiety, ADHD, emotional dysregulation, behavioral challenges, OCD, life transitions, and neurodivergence.
My approach is warm, collaborative, and evidence-based. I integrate CBT, DBT, ACT, ERP, PCIT, and SPACE while tailoring treatment to each client's strengths and goals. I provide neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed care that helps clients build coping skills, improve relationships, and navigate challenges with greater confidence.
I am passionate about helping young adults and parents navigate life’s challenges.
In our work you can expect a compassionate, nonjudgmental space where you are heard and valued. We will work together to identify your goals and develop tools you need to feel more empowered and confident in navigating challenges. Whether you’re looking for ways to better manage your ADHD, improve your relationships or heal from trauma, here for you!
I am passionate about helping young adults and parents navigate life’s challenges.
In our work you can expect a compassionate, nonjudgmental space where you are heard and valued. We will work together to identify your goals and develop tools you need to feel more empowered and confident in navigating challenges. Whether you’re looking for ways to better manage your ADHD, improve your relationships or heal from trauma, here for you!
Patricia Ann Lucas
Licensed Professional Counselor, PhD, R-DMT, LPCC
4 Endorsed
Minneapolis, MN 55416
I work with pregnancy, birth issues, infant mental health, post-partum, and parenting.
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.
I work with pregnancy, birth issues, infant mental health, post-partum, and parenting.
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.
As a parent of three, all adopted transracially, I have faced both the joy and struggle of parenting.
As a certified performance coach, I see you and your family as complete and capable while needing support, understanding, and options. Building on your strengths, I help you create strategies, develop unique skills, and establish clear goals so you can calm the chaos, reclaim your family...and yourself.
As a parent of three, all adopted transracially, I have faced both the joy and struggle of parenting.
As a certified performance coach, I see you and your family as complete and capable while needing support, understanding, and options. Building on your strengths, I help you create strategies, develop unique skills, and establish clear goals so you can calm the chaos, reclaim your family...and yourself.
I also provide walking therapy (talk therapy while walking) for adults who are navigating anxiety, parenting stressors, identify as neurodiverse or are a part of the LGBTQ+ population.
I build rapport with the individual, gain understanding of their family system and establish goals. I utilize integrative approaches such as play based therapy, strengths based therapy, CBT, mindfulness and family systems.
I also provide walking therapy (talk therapy while walking) for adults who are navigating anxiety, parenting stressors, identify as neurodiverse or are a part of the LGBTQ+ population.
I build rapport with the individual, gain understanding of their family system and establish goals. I utilize integrative approaches such as play based therapy, strengths based therapy, CBT, mindfulness and family systems.
Shoshana Alexander-Daniels
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LICSW
Minneapolis, MN 55408
Waitlist for new clients
I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW), an artist, a parent, and an educator.
I center liberation, consent, and joy in my work. Drawing from somatic (body centered) healing, Black feminism, narrative therapy, and internal family systems ("parts work"), and improv play therapy. I work with each client to choose a healing pathway that fits their values, identities, and hopes.
I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW), an artist, a parent, and an educator.
I center liberation, consent, and joy in my work. Drawing from somatic (body centered) healing, Black feminism, narrative therapy, and internal family systems ("parts work"), and improv play therapy. I work with each client to choose a healing pathway that fits their values, identities, and hopes.
My experience includes anxiety, depression, trauma, EMDR, substance use disorder, eating disorder, self esteem, body image, perinatal mental health, and parenting.
Clients who are looking for a nonjudgemental compassionate connection can book sessions with me either virtually or in-person. I have a wide range of skills and experience working with sensitive content and marginalized populations. I have a DBT informed therapeutic lens and offer EMDR as a tool in healing.
My experience includes anxiety, depression, trauma, EMDR, substance use disorder, eating disorder, self esteem, body image, perinatal mental health, and parenting.
Clients who are looking for a nonjudgemental compassionate connection can book sessions with me either virtually or in-person. I have a wide range of skills and experience working with sensitive content and marginalized populations. I have a DBT informed therapeutic lens and offer EMDR as a tool in healing.
My goal is to help you manage the role of parenting in a supportive and non-judgmental environment, develop a more balanced family life and address emotional and behavioral concerns within your home.
Whether you are the parent of a new child or a young adult, parenting is the most challenging and most rewarding role you take on everyday. If you find that you or your child/adolescent is in need of help Mindful Families is here.
My goal is to help you manage the role of parenting in a supportive and non-judgmental environment, develop a more balanced family life and address emotional and behavioral concerns within your home.
Whether you are the parent of a new child or a young adult, parenting is the most challenging and most rewarding role you take on everyday. If you find that you or your child/adolescent is in need of help Mindful Families is here.
You’ve spent so long in survival mode that you’ve forgotten what it feels like to actually thrive. If you’re tired of being the 'strong one' who carries everyone else’s weight while your own needs go unseen, I'm here to tell you, you don't have to do that anymore. Together we will move past the guilt of boundaries and the exhaustion of people-pleasing to help you finally trust yourself again.
You’ve spent so long in survival mode that you’ve forgotten what it feels like to actually thrive. If you’re tired of being the 'strong one' who carries everyone else’s weight while your own needs go unseen, I'm here to tell you, you don't have to do that anymore. Together we will move past the guilt of boundaries and the exhaustion of people-pleasing to help you finally trust yourself again.
My passion for marriage and family therapy stems from a deep belief that relationships are the foundation of personal well-being and community health. Over the years, I have witnessed how unresolved conflict, emotional disconnection, and unspoken pain can erode even the strongest bonds. This understanding has fueled my commitment to helping couples, families, and individuals navigate challenges with compassion, clarity, and evidence-based strategies that will provide you with concrete tools to address communication and long-standing attachment needs.
My passion for marriage and family therapy stems from a deep belief that relationships are the foundation of personal well-being and community health. Over the years, I have witnessed how unresolved conflict, emotional disconnection, and unspoken pain can erode even the strongest bonds. This understanding has fueled my commitment to helping couples, families, and individuals navigate challenges with compassion, clarity, and evidence-based strategies that will provide you with concrete tools to address communication and long-standing attachment needs.
Need a mental health squad that actually gets it? We're your go-to crew for life's plot twists!
At The Healing Hideout, we're part coach, part listener, all human. Share anything from epic fails to deep secrets—zero judgment, maximum support.
Our vibe? Positive. Our approach? Whole-family friendly with a side of fun. We'll tackle stress together, crush problems like a team, and make change feel less scary.
Come for the therapy, stay for the genuine connection. Because mental health support doesn't have to be boring—it can be your ultimate power-up!
Ready to level up your life? Let's do this!
Need a mental health squad that actually gets it? We're your go-to crew for life's plot twists!
At The Healing Hideout, we're part coach, part listener, all human. Share anything from epic fails to deep secrets—zero judgment, maximum support.
Our vibe? Positive. Our approach? Whole-family friendly with a side of fun. We'll tackle stress together, crush problems like a team, and make change feel less scary.
Come for the therapy, stay for the genuine connection. Because mental health support doesn't have to be boring—it can be your ultimate power-up!
Ready to level up your life? Let's do this!
Saleha Erdmann
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LICSW
1 Endorsed
Minneapolis, MN 55406
Waitlist for new clients
I am also a mother to two young children and care fiercely about supporting the wellbeing of parents.
My work is informed by client-centered, attachment and trauma theories and grounded in an understanding of intersectional identity and commitment to healing justice. I am also a musician, dancer, and gardener, all things that help me to understand the ways our bodies can hold and release trauma and how movement, the arts, and nature can support our healing.
I am also a mother to two young children and care fiercely about supporting the wellbeing of parents.
My work is informed by client-centered, attachment and trauma theories and grounded in an understanding of intersectional identity and commitment to healing justice. I am also a musician, dancer, and gardener, all things that help me to understand the ways our bodies can hold and release trauma and how movement, the arts, and nature can support our healing.
With parents, we dig into the emotional and the practical!
You have a trans child and Trump will be our next president. Now what? You have been put in an impossible position: to advocate for your child’s needs and to protect them from a bigoted world. How do you balance these seemingly competing needs when so many unknowns are looming? In short, how do you honor your child’s safety and sovereignty?
With parents, we dig into the emotional and the practical!
You have a trans child and Trump will be our next president. Now what? You have been put in an impossible position: to advocate for your child’s needs and to protect them from a bigoted world. How do you balance these seemingly competing needs when so many unknowns are looming? In short, how do you honor your child’s safety and sovereignty?
Examples of issues I have worked with include depression and anxiety, infertility, life transitions, relationship difficulties, parenting, and family of origin and attachment issues.
My work with clients is respectful and kind. I seek to build on clients' unique strengths, bringing in spirituality, creativity, humor, and problem-solving. I have advanced training in developmental and relational trauma (family of origin), Accelerated Resolution Therapy (trauma), Internal Family Systems (parts of self), mindfulness and somatic approaches.
Examples of issues I have worked with include depression and anxiety, infertility, life transitions, relationship difficulties, parenting, and family of origin and attachment issues.
My work with clients is respectful and kind. I seek to build on clients' unique strengths, bringing in spirituality, creativity, humor, and problem-solving. I have advanced training in developmental and relational trauma (family of origin), Accelerated Resolution Therapy (trauma), Internal Family Systems (parts of self), mindfulness and somatic approaches.
Colleen Dale
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LICSW
2 Endorsed
Minneapolis, MN 55419
Waitlist for new clients
I am particularly drawn to supporting issues related to parenting, relationships, attachment, identity concerns, and childhood trauma.
I commonly use approaches like Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), reparenting/inner-child work, and DBT. I lead with curiosity and compassion and am often described as open-hearted. I tend towards a more direct communication style. And I like to think I have a good sense of humor!
I am particularly drawn to supporting issues related to parenting, relationships, attachment, identity concerns, and childhood trauma.
I commonly use approaches like Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), reparenting/inner-child work, and DBT. I lead with curiosity and compassion and am often described as open-hearted. I tend towards a more direct communication style. And I like to think I have a good sense of humor!
Are you a parent wondering where the manual is?
There are many different ways to approach life's difficulties and can depend on what feels the best for you. And, you don't have to know in the first session, we'll explore options together and often use multiple strategies. I am able to utilize body-based, thought-based, spiritual-based, and relationally-based strategies for holistic change and growth.
Are you a parent wondering where the manual is?
There are many different ways to approach life's difficulties and can depend on what feels the best for you. And, you don't have to know in the first session, we'll explore options together and often use multiple strategies. I am able to utilize body-based, thought-based, spiritual-based, and relationally-based strategies for holistic change and growth.
I work with couples to enhance their communication and connection, with a particular focus on supporting parents in navigating the changes, challenges, and unique aspects of each chapter of parenthood.
My approach is compassionate, down to earth, strengths-based, and action oriented. Through developing a strong and trusting connection with my clients, I learn what's important to them and what type of growth and change they're looking for. I support them in building awareness and putting new strategies into practice to enhance their lives and relationships.
I work with couples to enhance their communication and connection, with a particular focus on supporting parents in navigating the changes, challenges, and unique aspects of each chapter of parenthood.
My approach is compassionate, down to earth, strengths-based, and action oriented. Through developing a strong and trusting connection with my clients, I learn what's important to them and what type of growth and change they're looking for. I support them in building awareness and putting new strategies into practice to enhance their lives and relationships.
Parents and teenagers who are making sense of unbelievable stressors.
I offer a compassionate, expert witness to people's lives, as they are. In welcoming the whole of their life and history to the room, I help them think about how they've been in their life and how they might choose to be in their life differently in the future. I draw on relational psychodynamics, DBT, and family therapy to witness and help.
Parents and teenagers who are making sense of unbelievable stressors.
I offer a compassionate, expert witness to people's lives, as they are. In welcoming the whole of their life and history to the room, I help them think about how they've been in their life and how they might choose to be in their life differently in the future. I draw on relational psychodynamics, DBT, and family therapy to witness and help.
You're not crazy! Relationships are hard and they require hard work. They can also be extremely rewarding and worth all the work. Therapy is quite similar. Do you need help to bring the spark back into your marriage? Heal your relationship after an affair? Work through painful or traumatic memories? Help coping with life cycle transitions? Develop better communication? As your therapist I will support you in achieving these goals by encouraging and respectfully challenging you in order to create the change you are seeking through therapy.
You're not crazy! Relationships are hard and they require hard work. They can also be extremely rewarding and worth all the work. Therapy is quite similar. Do you need help to bring the spark back into your marriage? Heal your relationship after an affair? Work through painful or traumatic memories? Help coping with life cycle transitions? Develop better communication? As your therapist I will support you in achieving these goals by encouraging and respectfully challenging you in order to create the change you are seeking through therapy.
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Parenting Therapists
What does therapy for parenting look like?
Therapists may work with parents individually, together, or include the whole family to find solutions for the problems a parent faces. Many parent-based therapies work on a parent’s relationship with their children, problem-solving within the family, and analysis of family dynamics. Therapy conducted remotely by video may be helpful in allowing a therapist to observe how families interact in their own homes.
When should a parent seek therapy?
When behavioral problems begin to disrupt the healthy functioning of a family, it may be a good time to look into therapy. If parents find that children are acting out in school, have started using drugs or alcohol, have developed eating disorders, or other similar red flags, a therapist may be able to help.
How long does therapy take for parenting problems?
Depending on the severity of a family’s challenges and the type of treatment utilized, therapy for parenting can last from weeks to months. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a pragmatic therapy type that can be brief, most often ranging from between 5 and 20 sessions. Structural family therapy, which inspects family dynamics, often takes several months. Parent-child interaction therapy is typically shorter-term, lasting between 10 and 20 sessions. For any therapy, the duration will depend on the progress made and results realized.
Can therapy help parents dealing with burnout or stress?
Parenting is difficult. Parents may dismiss or conceal feelings of exhaustion, overwhelm, or escape ideation—imagining withdrawing from their parental obligations altogether. but left unattended, these feelings can have negative effects on the whole family. A therapist can help parents work on the skills they might need to better cope with the burdens of parenting and help them be the best parents they can be.