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Alex sees clients of many ages, demographics, and presenting concerns. He sees individuals, couples, and family systems. He focuses his therapeutic attention on helping individuals foster quality relationships, as people are social beings who require strong and stable relationships in order feel safe, secure, significant, and have a sense of belonging. Therapeutic collaboration and encouragement are his primary tools in growing wellness and resilience in his clients. Alex operates from an Attachment theory perspective integrated through an Adlerian lens to address relational concerns and to provide a secure and safe platform for his clients working through the many challenges of life.

Alex enjoys providing therapeutic services surrounding issues of parenting, misbehaving children, family conflict, couples counseling, anxiety, divorce, life transitions, and stress management.

Outside of the office, he enjoys life as a full-time single parent, trains in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, loves completing DIY and home improvement projects, skateboarding, and archery.

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Lauren enjoys working with clients who are interested in seeking the root cause of current barriers they experience in life. She believes that taking a psychodynamic approach allows for the client to heal from past trauma's and gain control and insight over their current life. She focusing on creating an environment where both client and clinician work together to seek the answers to current problems. She has been working in the mental health field since 2018 with past experiencing from in home therapy to treatment facility setting.

Lauren is currently trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and takes the approach through a psychodynamic, CBT and motivational interviewing lens.

Lauren is a supervisor for both pre-licensed LPCC and LADC

Lauren currently lives in Carver MN with her husband and four children. She enjoys traveling and taking road trips with the family.

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Amanda is someone who understands the importance of feeling seen and heard. Whose therapeutic approach stems from compassion, empathy, and a desire to create a safe place for you to bring your concerns, heal from your traumas, and bring peace back into your life. Amanda takes a holistic approach looking at the interactions, patterns, and dynamics of a system to help create a healthier environment for everyone.

Amanda has been working in the mental health field since 2019, providing person-centered approaches to therapy with individuals and families. Amanda enjoys providing individual therapy for adults and family therapy for caregivers and children ages zero to six-years-old. Amanda focuses her work with people who have experienced racial, developmental, relational, and medical trauma. Areas of practice include life transitions, parenting support, adoption, grief & loss, anxiety, depression, perinatal, and postpartum mental health needs.

Amanda has received specialized training in Trauma-Informed Child-Parent Psychotherapy (TI-CPP), Trauma-Informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TI-CBT), Motivational Interviewing, and attachment and trauma focused care. Amanda is welcoming and affirming to LGBTQ+, gender expansive, neurodiverse, immigrant, refugee, and asylee communities.

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Kiersten is a strengths based and compassionate therapist who believes that positive change is always possible, even in difficult situations. She prioritizes building a strong relationship with clients so they feel heard and accepted. Kiersten sees her role as someone who can brainstorm solutions, provide a different perspective, and collaboratively work with clients to craft a path towards resilience, self acceptance, and positive change.

Kiersten approaches therapy with an eclectic, trauma focused style including DBT, CBT, and motivational interviewing. Kiersten has a background working with adolescents and adults coping with challenges, life transitions, depression, anxiety, and trauma. Kiersten understands therapy is not a one-size-fits all and is passionate about providing inclusive and collaborative care.

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Michael is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT). Michael is a strength-based therapist whose therapeutic techniques are informed by Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Solution Focused Therapy, and Family Systems Theory. He is also trained in Managing and Adapting Practices (MAP). Michael enjoys working with individuals, couples, families, and relational systems in order to alleviate mental health symptoms.

Outside of the office, Mike enjoys spending time with his wife, son, and family. Also, he likes to cook/grill, spend time in nature/outdoors, and attend various sporting events!

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I believe that all humans have a need to feel heard and understood. When this need of feeling heard and understood is met people can experience healing and freedom. We all are on a journey learning about ourselves in every season of our lives, our relationships and the world. Going to therapy can be difficult at times but my desire is to provide a hospitable environment in which you can express, learn and reflect about yourself, your relationships and how you see the world.

I am a Bilingual/Bicultural, culturally attuned Latina therapist with experience working with immigrant families, foster families, adopted, kids, teens. I have a passion to serve the Latinx and minorities communities and provide psychoeducation.

Who I work with: Kids, teens, adults, couples and families

Therapy types: Individuals, couples and families

Therapy modalities: Family Systems, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Psychodynamics, Emotion-Focused Therapy, Attachment and Play Therapy

Areas of focus: Trauma, Foster and adoption, Depression, Existential issues, Intergenerational Family Issues, Refugee and Immigration Issues and Spanish speaking individuals and families

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Tara understands that it is a big step to start therapy. She believes in the importance of creating a safe space with compassion, authenticity, and humor. Having a sense of connection and safety with your therapist is a big part of being able to do the life-changing work that can happen in therapy. Tara works collaboratively with clients to grow in their awareness of self and use this awareness to make healthy changes to improve their relationships and overall quality of life. She believes that a process-oriented approach is most effective to help client’s navigate lasting change. Tara specializes in supporting clients with anxiety, depression, complex trauma, relationship concerns, and mood and psychotic disorders.

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Stacie’s favorite mantra is “It’s okay, to not be okay” as she understands the difficulties and adversities one can be faced with in life. Her work encompasses a compassion focused model and she incorporates CBT and DBT skills building. Stacie helps individuals find their value, worth, and authentic self, by re-configuring feelings of shame, guilt, fear, embarrassment, and self-criticism. At heart, Stacie loves to learn about her clients, hear their story, encourage their growth, and empower them with affirmation. Stacie’s an avid reader of psychological research and development and she often integrates psycho-education into sessions to build client awareness. Her areas of expertise include anxiety, depression, trauma and adjustments to life adversities, anger issues, self-growth, and couples counseling. Stacie works with individuals and couples ages 18 and up.

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Catherine believes seeking help is a sign of strength and readiness for change. Building a strong foundation by creating a safe, welcoming space to foster a supportive, therapeutic relationship is an important first step for Catherine. Then, helping clients navigate through life’s challenges, exploring problems, discovering potentials, priorities and solutions in an effort to achieve their goals, leading them to a more fulfilling and satisfying life. Witnessing people create these meaningful changes has been Catherine’s greatest privilege as a therapist.

Through a collaborative process, Catherine works to find an approach that best meets each client’s personality and goals. Her approach is described as integrative, individualized, non- judgmental, empathetic and draws upon principles from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, Psychodynamic Theory, psychoeducation, and mindfulness. Catherine offers hope with a caring communication style that emphasizes acceptance and empowerment. Some areas of specialty include depression, anxiety, self esteem, life transitions, relationship issues, grief & loss, stress management, and attachment issues. Catherine has years of experience working with adults. She particularly enjoys working with individuals, and can do families too.

Catherine was born in California, but was raised in Minnesota. She received her Bachelor’s degree from St. Cloud State University and Master’s degree from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. She has spent the last 6 years working in private practice providing therapy, and the 6 years before that providing community based mental health services, including therapy, case management, community outreach and crisis intervention. In addition to clinical skills, she brings a lot of knowledge about community resources into her practice.


In her free time, Catherine enjoys spending time with her husband, 2 boys and dog; family, traveling, shopping, crafting, hanging out with friends, and spending as much time as she can at their family cabins.

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Ben is a therapist because he believes everyone is the hero or heroine of their own story, but sometimes life happens, and those stories can get off track or turned around. He is passionate about helping people get their stories back on track. Therapy begins with a supportive and accepting place to tell those stories.

Ben has been working as a clinician and providing therapeutic services since 2012. He has worked with children, adolescents, and adults in individual, couple, and family settings. Ben works with clients 14 years old and up. He has provided therapeutic services for anxiety, anger, depression, PTSD, self-harm and suicidal ideation, among other clinical diagnoses. Ben has also had specific experience with self-esteem building, identity development, college/career adjustment, parenting, and life transitions.

Ben's therapy style is warm and accepting, with clients as the experts on who they are, where they are in life, and where they want to go. As a therapist, Ben works to provide a supportive and encouraging environment that includes honest, acceptance, and hopefully a little humor too. Through creative and collaborative efforts that start from clients' strengths and goals for themselves, change can come at personal and interpersonal levels. With an emphasis on the importance of family and social relationships as part of the individual's environment, Ben uses a flexible and eclectic style that incorporates Narrative, Solution- Focused, Intergenerational, and Behavioral Therapies.

Research has shown that no specific orientation or technique is as important to successful therapy than the alliance or relationship between client and counselor. Clients are welcome and even encouraged to provide feedback on the therapeutic relationship to benefit themselves and the process of therapy.

Outside the office, Ben spends as much time as possible with his wife, son, and daughter. He also enjoys stories of all kinds: movies, books, tv, games, and theater. Whenever the weather permits, Ben likes to play soccer and go camping.

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Jeanne is passionate about providing a strength-based and non-judgmental space for people to explore their issues within an accepting and confidential therapeutic relationship. She provides a compassionate, empathic, and collaborative space for people to explore emotional difficulties, adjustment challenges, life transitions, grief, trauma, and relationships. She believes in people’s intrinsic strength, courage, and resilience in exploring new possibilities and developing healthy coping strategies.

Jeanne enjoys working with children, pre-adolescents, and adults of all ages. She also enjoys working with families, providing parent guidance, and psychoeducation. Her areas of focus include: mood disorders, anxiety, adjustment issues, identity development, perfectionism, relationships, parenting, sleep issues, shame, issues of self-worth, grief and loss, trauma, and self-injurious behavior. She provides ongoing coordination of care with other professionals and will assist you in finding additional resources that may support your mental health needs.

Jeanne utilizes a Person-in- Environment perspective as well as a strength and resilience-based approach with her therapeutic work. She utilizes a variety of therapeutic orientations including: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Trauma Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Grief Therapy, Family Systems, Feminist Therapy, and Person- Centered Therapy.

Jeanne is native Wisconsinite. In her free time, Jeanne enjoys spending time with her husband, two children, and Golden Retrievers, Beckett and Finnegan. Jeanne also enjoys spedning time with friends, traveling, reading, music, hiking, coffee, and Wisconsin sports.

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Katie has expressed that her greatest reward as a therapist is helping her clients explore ways to make the changes in their lives that will allow them to look forward to the future with hope using a person-centered approach. She believes that we all need someone to talk with who will really listen and accept us as we are, without judgment. Katie provides her clients with that warm, nonjudgmental environment—a safe place to explore the issues that may be preventing you from living the life you want.

Katie has an extensive experience working with young adults with mental health and substance use issues and their families. She has a particularly broad experience in treating individuals with both mental health and substance use issues as well. She enjoys working with individuals and couples. Some areas of speciality are anxiety and depression, grief, women's emotional health, family therapy, trauma, body image and disordered eating, self-esteem, self-harm, adolescent behavior issues, and substance abuse/dependence. She uses an eclectic approach based on clinical appropriateness and pulls from motivational interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, solution focus, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, 12 step facilitation, as well as psychoeducation.

Katie was born and raised in North Dakota. She attended the University of Mary in Bismarck, NS where she received her undergrad in social work and addiction counseling. She then obtained her Masters in Social Work from Augsburg. She has over 12 years of experience in the mental health and chemical dependency field.

In her free time, she enjoys baking, reading, working out, spending time outdoors, and spending time with her three boys and husband.

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Renee believes supportive relationships with others is the foundation for healthy change. Renee's authentic, open, and non-judgmental approach promotes healing and personal growth for her clients. She recognizes the innate wisdom within each individual while guiding her clients through life's obstacles. She is eager to serve clients from early adolescence through adulthood.

Renee's therapeutic work is rooted in a trauma- informed, strength-based, client-centered perspective. Renee has extensive experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds who have experienced trauma. She welcomes the opportunity to support clients' efforts to heal from past trauma, address concerning symptoms, improve interpersonal relationships, and navigate life transitions. Renee draws from a variety of therapy interventions and orientations: acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), art-based interventions, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), mindfulness, and psychoeducation.

Renee was born and raised in Minnesota. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota in Sociology- Criminal Justice and Women's Studies and her Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Renee has 20+ years of experience supporting justice involved clients on their journey to achieve positive adjustment and personal fulfillment. She has actively provided advocacy support for individuals who have experienced sexual violence.

In her free time, Renee enjoys spending time with her family, friends, and pets. She enjoys Pilates, yoga, walking, reading and traveling.

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Therapy is a powerful tool that benefits clients in vasty different ways, depending on the desired outcome. Elizabeth's goal is to bring clients into an emotionally safe environment, where they work together to identify problematic patters, delve into healthy coping skills, which will ultimately bring about opportunities for personal growth and healing.

Being a therapist is a true passion of Elizabeth's. She has relished various opportunities to build upon her own skill sets, which can then be integrated into different paths within the therapeutic process. Elizabeth integrates a skills-oriented therapy known as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) into Narrative and Relational theories to understand clients' needs from origin through healing.

While the various areas explored in the therapeutic process are limitless, some common examples Elizabeth may explore in therapy with clients include anxiety, depression, eating disorders, body image, self-esteem, adjustment disorders, attachment issues, perfectionism, over thinking & worrying, decision making, grief & loss, relationship issues and life transitions. Elizabeth earned her Bachelor's Degree from University of Minnesota (Go Gophers!) and Master's Degree from St. Mary's University. Elizabeth is an active member of American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

On a personal note, Elizabeth is married with a dog named Moe. Her husband and family are the most significant part of her life. She also enjoys being outside, whether it be camping or boating with family and friends, hiking, or walking with Moe around her neighborhood. Elizabeth enjoys traveling and takes an annual trip to the Boundary Waters with her sister and her father. Canoeing in the wilderness with nothing but the beauty and serenity of nature around her is a remarkable experience.

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McKala is a dedicated therapist passionate about supporting individuals and families in reaching their fullest potential. Central to her practice is building strong, trusting relationships with her clients, fostering an environment where they feel accepted, understood, and empowered to harness their unique resilience, especially during challenging times.

She has extensive training in trauma-informed care, including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and holds certifications as a Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) and in Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C).

Her practice is inclusive, welcoming individuals across the lifespan (ages 3 and up). McKala utilizes an eclectic, client-centered approach, addressing issues such as anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, grief/loss, and aging. She believes in an adaptive, personalized method that respects the unique needs of each client.

She is skilled in using play therapy techniques to engage children in a way that resonates with them, and works collaboratively with parents to create tailored treatment plans that promote healing. She also specializes in supporting individuals during the perinatal and postpartum periods, offering compassionate care that addresses a range of issues, from adjustment and life transitions to mood and anxiety disorders.

McKala loves living in the Chippewa Valley and greatly values quality time with family and friends. She enjoys traveling, figure skating, reading, listening to podcasts, and snuggling her dog. McKala wants clients to know, "You are not alone...Healing is possible."