Women's Issues Therapists in South Saint Paul, MN
People who see me for individual therapy are usually facing turmoil either due to current stressors or past issues that keep surfacing and prevent them from moving forward in their lives. Often, people tell me that they feel "stuck" and need direction/guidance. By working with me they identify their inner strengths and capabilities; they feel confident in themselves to take on challenges that come their way. In therapy we identify things that should change because what clients are doing currently is not helping. I problem solve and discuss ways to make their present meaningful. My strength based approach resonates with clients.
People who see me for individual therapy are usually facing turmoil either due to current stressors or past issues that keep surfacing and prevent them from moving forward in their lives. Often, people tell me that they feel "stuck" and need direction/guidance. By working with me they identify their inner strengths and capabilities; they feel confident in themselves to take on challenges that come their way. In therapy we identify things that should change because what clients are doing currently is not helping. I problem solve and discuss ways to make their present meaningful. My strength based approach resonates with clients.
My ideal client is a prenatal or postpartum mother feeling overwhelmed by the emotional and physical demands of pregnancy or motherhood. She may struggle with stress, anxiety, relationship tensions, identity shifts, or fears about not being a “good enough” mom. She often feels pulled between caring for her baby and staying connected to herself, longing for clarity, balance, and a sense of grounding during this major life transition.
My ideal client is a prenatal or postpartum mother feeling overwhelmed by the emotional and physical demands of pregnancy or motherhood. She may struggle with stress, anxiety, relationship tensions, identity shifts, or fears about not being a “good enough” mom. She often feels pulled between caring for her baby and staying connected to herself, longing for clarity, balance, and a sense of grounding during this major life transition.
Amanda Ripley-Kayala
Counselor, MA, LPCC, LADC, EMDR
3 Endorsed
South Saint Paul, MN 55075
Waitlist for new clients
I am grounded in Trauma-Informed Care and Sex Therapy, while also drawing from Queer Theory and Intersectionality to understand how overlapping identities impact mental health and sexual well-being, creating a space that is both emotionally safe and nonjudgmental. My work acknowledges that trauma—whether from abuse, neglect, medical experiences, or relational harm—can affect desire, arousal, boundaries, trust, and identity.
I am a therapist who integrates trauma therapy and sex therapy while specializing in LGBTQ+, kinky, and polyamorous populations works with a deeply affirming, inclusive, and non-pathologizing lens.
I am grounded in Trauma-Informed Care and Sex Therapy, while also drawing from Queer Theory and Intersectionality to understand how overlapping identities impact mental health and sexual well-being, creating a space that is both emotionally safe and nonjudgmental. My work acknowledges that trauma—whether from abuse, neglect, medical experiences, or relational harm—can affect desire, arousal, boundaries, trust, and identity.
I am a therapist who integrates trauma therapy and sex therapy while specializing in LGBTQ+, kinky, and polyamorous populations works with a deeply affirming, inclusive, and non-pathologizing lens.
Morgan Phillips
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, CSAC, LICSW, LADC
2 Endorsed
South Saint Paul, MN 55075
Do you find yourself repeating the same painful patterns in relationships — feeling anxious, unseen, or disconnected? Many of these struggles are rooted in early experiences that shaped how safe it feels to connect with others and with yourself. Clients often come to me seeking help with the following: healing from childhood or relational trauma, building healthier, more secure attachments, navigating anxiety, shame or self-doubt, breaking free from people-pleasing or fear of abandonment and restoring a sense of connection, balance and trust.
Do you find yourself repeating the same painful patterns in relationships — feeling anxious, unseen, or disconnected? Many of these struggles are rooted in early experiences that shaped how safe it feels to connect with others and with yourself. Clients often come to me seeking help with the following: healing from childhood or relational trauma, building healthier, more secure attachments, navigating anxiety, shame or self-doubt, breaking free from people-pleasing or fear of abandonment and restoring a sense of connection, balance and trust.
Life can be challenging when we experience adjustments, trials and loses, causing us to experience loneliness, conflicting emotions, anxiety, depression or simply feeling something is missing in our lives. Therapy can provide a way out to help you return to wellness. It requires great courage taking the first step to reach out. I would be honored if you allow me to walk alongside to unlock your full potential. I strive to follow your lead and adapt to your personal style and needs and together, create a safe and nurturing environment. Hablo nativo Español al 100% y me encantaria servirte!
Life can be challenging when we experience adjustments, trials and loses, causing us to experience loneliness, conflicting emotions, anxiety, depression or simply feeling something is missing in our lives. Therapy can provide a way out to help you return to wellness. It requires great courage taking the first step to reach out. I would be honored if you allow me to walk alongside to unlock your full potential. I strive to follow your lead and adapt to your personal style and needs and together, create a safe and nurturing environment. Hablo nativo Español al 100% y me encantaria servirte!
Do you find yourself struggling with daily tasks due to your trauma, anxiety, or substance use? If so I am here to help! Clients come to me looking for a therapist who can provide a safe, supportive, and light setting, while exploring symptoms or experiences. Therapy should be a place where you feel heard and validated in session. Sessions with me are focused on your current needs while challenge thought patterns, beliefs, and better understanding your symptoms. Together, we achieve the growth and healing you need to improve your daily routine, we always go at your pace, never pushing to a place you don’t feel ready to be.
Do you find yourself struggling with daily tasks due to your trauma, anxiety, or substance use? If so I am here to help! Clients come to me looking for a therapist who can provide a safe, supportive, and light setting, while exploring symptoms or experiences. Therapy should be a place where you feel heard and validated in session. Sessions with me are focused on your current needs while challenge thought patterns, beliefs, and better understanding your symptoms. Together, we achieve the growth and healing you need to improve your daily routine, we always go at your pace, never pushing to a place you don’t feel ready to be.
Do you often feel overwhelmed and burned out from being a neurodivergent parent? Have you or are you currently going through infertility and experiencing any grief that comes with infertility or parenting? Are you a couple that is adjusting to the transition of parenthood and needing support navigating this difficult time because at least one partner is feeling anxious, depressed/isolated, or resentment? I am passionate about working with individuals and couples going through the childbearing and childrearing stages of the family life cycle.
Do you often feel overwhelmed and burned out from being a neurodivergent parent? Have you or are you currently going through infertility and experiencing any grief that comes with infertility or parenting? Are you a couple that is adjusting to the transition of parenthood and needing support navigating this difficult time because at least one partner is feeling anxious, depressed/isolated, or resentment? I am passionate about working with individuals and couples going through the childbearing and childrearing stages of the family life cycle.
Building relationships and trust are at the heart of my practice, and I believe everyone has unique and resilient qualities that can be tapped into, especially during difficult times in life. I strive to create a safe, non-judgmental, therapeutic environment, where clients feel accepted and understood. My professional philosophy is framed within a holistic approach to treatment. I help clients integrate the mind/body and gain a sense of cognitive and emotional balance.
Building relationships and trust are at the heart of my practice, and I believe everyone has unique and resilient qualities that can be tapped into, especially during difficult times in life. I strive to create a safe, non-judgmental, therapeutic environment, where clients feel accepted and understood. My professional philosophy is framed within a holistic approach to treatment. I help clients integrate the mind/body and gain a sense of cognitive and emotional balance.
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As a mother and first-generation immigrant, my lived experience has informed my clinical practice. I enjoy helping others navigate stressful life changes. I provide clients with Adrelian psychotherapy and trauma-informed care, including AF-EMDR. While all clients are welcome, I have focused on helping mothers navigate the challenges of parenting, pregnancy, post-partum concerns, difficulties with fertility, and divorce; as well as First Generation immigrants navigate the acculturation process. Recently, I have branched out, providing services for neurodiverse and twice-gifted clients.
As a mother and first-generation immigrant, my lived experience has informed my clinical practice. I enjoy helping others navigate stressful life changes. I provide clients with Adrelian psychotherapy and trauma-informed care, including AF-EMDR. While all clients are welcome, I have focused on helping mothers navigate the challenges of parenting, pregnancy, post-partum concerns, difficulties with fertility, and divorce; as well as First Generation immigrants navigate the acculturation process. Recently, I have branched out, providing services for neurodiverse and twice-gifted clients.
Thank you for taking the time to review my profile. I want to commend you for taking the courageous step to seek therapy. I hope you will find my office to be a supportive, trusting, safe space for you to explore the struggles and challenges you experience in life. It is very important to me that you feel heard and seen in therapy with me. We will take the time to explore and celebrate the important aspects of your identity. I also understand that you likely need more than empathetic listening to get “un-stuck” in life.
Thank you for taking the time to review my profile. I want to commend you for taking the courageous step to seek therapy. I hope you will find my office to be a supportive, trusting, safe space for you to explore the struggles and challenges you experience in life. It is very important to me that you feel heard and seen in therapy with me. We will take the time to explore and celebrate the important aspects of your identity. I also understand that you likely need more than empathetic listening to get “un-stuck” in life.
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (PA, FL, MN) and Clinical Supervisor ( approved by AAMFT , FL, MN) with nearly 20 years of experience working with individuals, couples, and families. I specialize in supporting Women of Color—especially those who grew up in environments where softness, rest, or vulnerability weren’t options. Women who learned early on how to hustle, how to hold it all together, and how to keep pushing—because falling apart wasn’t an option.
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (PA, FL, MN) and Clinical Supervisor ( approved by AAMFT , FL, MN) with nearly 20 years of experience working with individuals, couples, and families. I specialize in supporting Women of Color—especially those who grew up in environments where softness, rest, or vulnerability weren’t options. Women who learned early on how to hustle, how to hold it all together, and how to keep pushing—because falling apart wasn’t an option.
Hello there, I look forward to meeting you! My name is Molly. I have been in private practice for over 12 years serving a broad population with varying diagnoses which I enjoy, and I developed the passion and experience (PMH-C) providing services supporting those going through pregnancy, postpartum, and all things perinatal mental health. As a mother myself, it is a gift to be able to support this population.
Hello there, I look forward to meeting you! My name is Molly. I have been in private practice for over 12 years serving a broad population with varying diagnoses which I enjoy, and I developed the passion and experience (PMH-C) providing services supporting those going through pregnancy, postpartum, and all things perinatal mental health. As a mother myself, it is a gift to be able to support this population.
Theresa J Crawford
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
2 Endorsed
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Waitlist for new clients
If you're feeling alone in whatever you're struggling with, I'm here to help. I have compassion and vast life experience to help support and guide you through this. I provide a safe and accepting space, where you can access your most creative, intuitive self, and find answers within. Together, things won't seem so hard. I am offering my regular services via telehealth or in person. Email me for more information.
If you're feeling alone in whatever you're struggling with, I'm here to help. I have compassion and vast life experience to help support and guide you through this. I provide a safe and accepting space, where you can access your most creative, intuitive self, and find answers within. Together, things won't seem so hard. I am offering my regular services via telehealth or in person. Email me for more information.
Looking for a therapist? We might be a good fit if you've found yourself needing help with learning effective ways to manage stress and the constant demands in life, learning how to communicate well with others and find your voice within relationships; healing from complicated relationships with your body and food; navigating the world as someone who feels things deeply, is sensitive to their environment, and is highly empathetic; reducing self-esteem issues and cultivating self-worth; learning to quiet your inner critic; or understanding of your ADHD symptoms and learning to function and thrive in ways that work best for you.
Looking for a therapist? We might be a good fit if you've found yourself needing help with learning effective ways to manage stress and the constant demands in life, learning how to communicate well with others and find your voice within relationships; healing from complicated relationships with your body and food; navigating the world as someone who feels things deeply, is sensitive to their environment, and is highly empathetic; reducing self-esteem issues and cultivating self-worth; learning to quiet your inner critic; or understanding of your ADHD symptoms and learning to function and thrive in ways that work best for you.
Reaching out to a therapist is a bold move. It takes courage to begin the process of self exploration and discovery, and it takes a safe place to do that important work. I am committed to providing that safe space for my clients. I believe that the relationship between a therapist and client is a unique and healing one. It is two minds coming together to explore the ways in which current life stresses intersect with painful past experiences to create suffering. When a client feels respected and seen, they are able to grieve their past hurts and find new paths for coping.
Reaching out to a therapist is a bold move. It takes courage to begin the process of self exploration and discovery, and it takes a safe place to do that important work. I am committed to providing that safe space for my clients. I believe that the relationship between a therapist and client is a unique and healing one. It is two minds coming together to explore the ways in which current life stresses intersect with painful past experiences to create suffering. When a client feels respected and seen, they are able to grieve their past hurts and find new paths for coping.
I'm so glad you are here. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker providing remote, individual therapy for adults who are experiencing mood disorders, including anxiety, depression, adult ADHD, and perinatal and postpartum mood & anxiety disorders (PMAD). I provide a safe, non-judgmental, and compassionate environment where my clients can identify and work to achieve effective, sustainable, personal shifts in their lives. During our sessions, my clients learn more about themselves, and what is necessary for them to achieve the freedom to live their most truthful and meaningful lives.
I'm so glad you are here. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker providing remote, individual therapy for adults who are experiencing mood disorders, including anxiety, depression, adult ADHD, and perinatal and postpartum mood & anxiety disorders (PMAD). I provide a safe, non-judgmental, and compassionate environment where my clients can identify and work to achieve effective, sustainable, personal shifts in their lives. During our sessions, my clients learn more about themselves, and what is necessary for them to achieve the freedom to live their most truthful and meaningful lives.
People are unique human beings with a long list of remarkable qualities. Sometimes though, we feel that we have qualities that we need to work on to be our better selves. I work with individuals to find those qualities and strengthen the ones we want to stay around. You may be a good fit for me if you: have ADHD, have children, are a family with adult children in the home, are a lifelong learner, are tired of looking at the positive side all the time, and willing to work on your problems in and out of therapy!
People are unique human beings with a long list of remarkable qualities. Sometimes though, we feel that we have qualities that we need to work on to be our better selves. I work with individuals to find those qualities and strengthen the ones we want to stay around. You may be a good fit for me if you: have ADHD, have children, are a family with adult children in the home, are a lifelong learner, are tired of looking at the positive side all the time, and willing to work on your problems in and out of therapy!
I bring over a decade of professional expertise to therapy along with my own life experiences, empathy, understanding and hopefully a little humor along the way. When working with you (licensed in WI, MN, IL) I recognize the many roles you take on in day to day life. By using a client-centered approach, I will support you in your journey of emotional growth and well-being. More than anything, while my license is as a Marriage and Family Therapist, I aim to live my own life as authentically and intentionally as I can as a parent, family member and friend. I strive to bring that same authenticity and intentionality to our sessions.
I bring over a decade of professional expertise to therapy along with my own life experiences, empathy, understanding and hopefully a little humor along the way. When working with you (licensed in WI, MN, IL) I recognize the many roles you take on in day to day life. By using a client-centered approach, I will support you in your journey of emotional growth and well-being. More than anything, while my license is as a Marriage and Family Therapist, I aim to live my own life as authentically and intentionally as I can as a parent, family member and friend. I strive to bring that same authenticity and intentionality to our sessions.
ETA: 3/20/25 Low availability
Hello and welcome! My name is Amanda and I have been in the field as a therapist since 2011. As a therapist it is my goal to give you the space, time, and support to overcome the struggles you may be facing. I work hard to help you find your own empowerment to work through the difficulties that life throws your way. I am gentle, yet direct when needed, in therapy. When it comes to working with families or children/adolescents, my goal is to teach the family how to communicate and work together more effectively. I look forward to helping guide and support you in the ways you need to heal
ETA: 3/20/25 Low availability
Hello and welcome! My name is Amanda and I have been in the field as a therapist since 2011. As a therapist it is my goal to give you the space, time, and support to overcome the struggles you may be facing. I work hard to help you find your own empowerment to work through the difficulties that life throws your way. I am gentle, yet direct when needed, in therapy. When it comes to working with families or children/adolescents, my goal is to teach the family how to communicate and work together more effectively. I look forward to helping guide and support you in the ways you need to heal
You feel overwhelmed as a woman, thinking that you’re either too much or not enough. You’re trying to be a good wife, mother, daughter, employee, friend, but feel like you rarely get it “just right”. You’ve become disconnected from yourself. You want to feel confident and have your joy back. You want to feel like yourself again. Or as a couple, you keep having the same conflict over again, leaving you feeling disconnected. You’re arguing much of the time or not talking at all. It's hard to find joy and feel love. You want to make it work. You’re ready to stop fighting and feel happy again. You want real change in your relationship.
You feel overwhelmed as a woman, thinking that you’re either too much or not enough. You’re trying to be a good wife, mother, daughter, employee, friend, but feel like you rarely get it “just right”. You’ve become disconnected from yourself. You want to feel confident and have your joy back. You want to feel like yourself again. Or as a couple, you keep having the same conflict over again, leaving you feeling disconnected. You’re arguing much of the time or not talking at all. It's hard to find joy and feel love. You want to make it work. You’re ready to stop fighting and feel happy again. You want real change in your relationship.
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- West Saint Paul
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Women's Issues Therapists
How do you encourage a woman to go to therapy?
It’s helpful to express concern and love for the person while framing therapy as a tool for improving their life. Offering specific examples of how an individual may be suffering, and what effects it has on them, should be done with compassion and with empathy. It may be useful to devise a game plan—breaking the process down into parts, such as finding a therapist, making appointments, and looking into insurance coverage.
How can women prepare for therapy?
Women can prepare for therapy by being willing to talk about their past experiences and their private thoughts. Before a session, an individual may want to reflect on how they’ve felt since the last session and what’s happened in their lives. Between sessions, it can be useful to write down notes about their reaction to a given event or how they felt at a particular time.
How long does therapy for women’s issues often last?
As with any type of therapy, sessions depend on the individual and the challenges they face. Therapy types like Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Prolonged exposure therapy (PET), and Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) can be brief, most often ranging from between 5 and 20 sessions. In some cases, such as for women with eating disorders, residential treatment may be recommended for an individual who is judged to be at high risk of self-harm. For any therapy, the duration will depend on the progress made and results realized.
How can women overcome stigma around specific challenges in order to seek therapy?
Women dealing with domestic abuse, sexual assault, eating disorders, and any other number of troubles may feel a stigma around seeking help. It’s important to remember that these issues are not uncommon and there is no shame in getting help for them. Therapy is confidential, and women can talk about their experiences without fear of judgment. Seeking therapy can be a courageous and liberating act, and an important step toward healing and recovery.