Bridgeview Staff

Clinical Approach
Alyssa is Director of Community Based Programs for Lee Carlson Center. She believes in the uniqueness of each individual and is passionate about working with teenagers and their families. Pulling from their strengths and values, she enjoys helping individuals realize their full potentials.

Clinical Interests
Alyssa has worked at Columbia Heights High School for three years as well as partnered with other schools in Anoka County. Alyssa has experience supporting teenagers through anxiety, depression, grief and loss, trauma, adjustment difficulties, and post-traumatic stress disorder. She also has experience working with adults with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness and is trained in DBT.

Hobbies
Alyssa enjoys spending time with friends and family, hiking, cooking, and skiing.

Beliefs About Therapy
Lisa believes in having a safe space that is supportive to allow clients to work on their recovery. She likes sharing with others everything that Bridgeview can offer in order to enhance their recovery and feel accepted. Lisa wants adults with SMI/SPMI to know that there is a place where they can come for support, resources, and to socialize.

Hobbies
Lisa loves to travel, spend time with her grandson, and play with her rescue dog; a Chihuahua named Hannah.

Clinical Approach
Lindsey takes a very client-centered approach. She believes that each client benefits from sorting out the thoughts that clutter their sense of purpose and she takes a narrative approach in helping clients rescript their stories and identify strategies to overcome obstacles. She incorporates many components of CBT, DBT, and motivational interviewing along the way.

Clinical Interests
Lindsey has a particular interest in women’s issues. She has volunteered as a sexual assault advocate and co-facilitated a sexual assault survivor’s support group at St. Cloud State University in the past. She also has many years of experience working with adults with SPMI and is currently completing training in DBT.

Hobbies
Lindsey enjoys running, spending time outdoors, traveling, and spending time with friends and family.

Clinical Interests
Meghan has worked in the mental health field since 2006 in a variety of settings including: in-patient, community behavioral health hospital, residential services, and in-home services. When working with clients, she follows a person centered approach with mindfulness, radical acceptance, emotional regulation, and motivational interviewing. Meghan has experience working with adults, 18 and older. She has a special interest in PTSD and Schizophrenia.

Hobbies
Meghan enjoys spending time with her son, doing DIY projects, going to concerts, and traveling.

Beliefs About Therapy
Laura believes in holding onto hope and meeting people where they are. She follows a Person-Centered approach, and wants the members to know that recovery is possible.

Clinical Interests
Laura specializes in anxiety and social phobias, gratitude journaling, and recovery and peer support.

Hobbies
Laura enjoys gardening, painting, fishing, hunting, time with family, and music.

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