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Rachel thinks it's important to see each teen she works with in the context of all of their environments in order to understand what is impacting their mental health and create helpful treatment goals. She relies heavily on trauma-informed care addressing trauma at the macro, mezzo and micro levels and how that manifests for the individual child.

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Rachel's clinical interests include social justice advocacy, anti-racism, and psychodynamic approaches.

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Rachel is an MN Lynx superfan and enjoys basketball. She also likes to travel and spend time with family.

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Adam primarily uses CBT and strength-based approaches.

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Adam is mainly interested in working with child and adolescent populations, specifically those with mood, anxiety, and trauma disorders. He also enjoys working with kids with ASD.

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In his free time, Adam loves to work out, golf, spend time at the beach, play video games, and play sports of any kind!

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Kellie approaches her practice from a person-in-system lens and strives to identify and utilize clients' existing strengths, build new skills and supports, and manage individual and systemic challenges to meet their goals. Her practice is influenced by attachment theory, trauma-informed care, and person-centered treatment.

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Kellie has experience working with a variety of ages and diagnoses, and she specializes in working with adolescents and their families experiencing grief and loss, family change, trauma, mood disorders, anxiety, emotional regulation, and behavior concerns.

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Outside of work Kellie loves spending time with her kids, hiking, camping, traveling, reading, and making time for spontaneous silliness.

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Brent utilizes a Rogerian approach with Maslow's Hierarchy.

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Brent's clinical interests are helping each client to be the best they can be and to help them attain goals and develop themselves.

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Brent enjoys playing with his kids, doing outdoor activities, camping, working with his hands, and helping people anyway he can.

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Katlin's approach to therapy is through a client-centered and cognitive behavioral lens with a wide variety of interventions and techniques that best fit the clients needs. Building a strong and trusting therapeutic relationship with each client and meeting each child where they are at is essential in the therapy process.

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Katlin currently works with elementary-aged children in a school based setting. Her clinical interests include anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and social-emotional learning.

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Her hobbies include walking her dogs, exercising, spending time with family and friends, enjoying the sun and lakes in Minnesota.

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Mikah approaches therapy as a safe space for clients to learn about themselves and experience mastery of skills before integrating into other contexts. She uses person-centered and mindfulness approaches to build emotional intelligence and regulation.

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Mikah's interested in working with early childhood and school-aged children primarily through the lens of family work. She has experience in schools, Autism day treatment, and intensive in-home settings.

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Mikah enjoys walks around the many lakes Minnesota has to offer, hands-on home projects, and spending time with her family.

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Chris likes to use creativity to instill understanding for clients and help map out their internal strengths and struggles. He uses a variety of approaches to help his clients achieve this through narrative, artistic and analytic methods of therapy.

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Chris enjoys working with individuals of all ages and families to help achieve a sense of cohesiveness and understanding with one another.

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Chris enjoys performing comedy, reading, exercising, video games, movies, board games and also baking.

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Rebekah's clinical approach uses client-centered art-based psychotherapy.

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Rebekah's clinical interests include trauma, grief, and loss.

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Rebekah enjoys reading, painting, and kayaking.

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Olivia approaches therapy through a person-centered and trauma-informed lens. She focuses on meeting the client where they are. Olivia draws from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness techniques in her therapeutic approach.

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Olivia currently works with teenagers in a high school setting but has a background working with all ages. Her clinical interests are anxiety, depression, trauma, and social skill building.

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Olivia's hobbies include baking, reading, traveling, and watching sports. Olivia also loves animals and enjoys playing with her two dogs and her cat.

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Kalee’s approaches therapy through a person-centered, strengths-focused and cognitive behavioral lens. Building a trusting and therapeutic relationship is at the forefront of therapy. Kalee incorporates CBT intervention, mindfulness and play techniques into session to promote emotional expression and regulation. Kalee’s mission is to support individuals in their journey with mental health to lead and cultivate a more mindful, healthier life.

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Kalee has experience working with a diverse population of children ages 3-18 years old, however currently working with elementary-aged children. Kalee has worked with a variety of diagnoses including Autism Spectrum Disorder, anxiety, depression, trauma–stress related disorders and behavioral concerns. Treatment modalities of interest include Cognitive Behavioral therapy (CBT), Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA), Trauma-Focused CBT, person-centered therapy, mindfulness, and some play therapy techniques.

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Kalee enjoys spending time with her family and friends, hiking and being outdoors and playing with her dog, Huckleberry.

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Lejla's clinical approach is client-centered, strength-based, and utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). She believes that a strong client-clinician relationship is the driving force for client's personal growth and progress.

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Her clinical interests include trauma, anxiety, depression and grief. Her primary focus is with the adolescent population with some work involving adults.

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Lejla's hobbies include cooking, gardening, hiking, and exploring different places with family and friends. She also enjoys spending time with her cats.

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Crafts, music, and being out in nature.

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Troy’s goal as a therapist is to promote inclusive settings where students and families can find the power, wisdom, and courage to overcome obstacles.

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While at the University of Minnesota, Troy specialized in working with families and children. He has worked with K-12, as well as students within the alternative school setting.

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Troy enjoys hanging out with friends or family, video games, and the Korean Sword Art “Haidong Gumdo”.

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Krysta grows with clients utilizing the client’s learning style and flows with them to work on their goals. She utilizes aspects of CBT and mindfulness in her sessions.

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Krysta has experience working with elementary aged children and older adults. She has a certification in Respecting Choices, an advance care planning model. Krysta also has experience working with individuals with autism and ADHD in CTSS and ARMHS. Krysta’s experiences range from working in a memory care clinic to hospital settings.

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Krysta enjoys running, crafts and watching movies.

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Meghan's clinical approach is person-centered and strength-based, utilizing cognitive behavior therapy and integrating play and art techniques.

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Meghan's clinical interests include anxiety/worries, trauma, behavioral concerns, autism, ADHD, and social skill building

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Some of Meghan's hobbies are running, and golfing. She also enjoys traveling, spending time with family and friends, watching Netflix/tv shows, and playing with her dog

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Person-centered, collaborative approach that recognizes the client as the expert of their own story. Under the umbrella of a family systems based approach, utilize narrative and solution-focused modalities that considers the individual in the context of the larger family and other social systems they are a part of.

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Taylor's clinical interests include working with children, teens, and their families, as well as depression, anxiety, self identity development, and family relational problems.

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Taylor's hobbies include spending time outdoors, sudoku, weight lifting, spending time with friends and family, and trying new recipes.

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Laura utilizes a strengths based and person-centered approach to therapy, focusing on clients’ strength and resiliency. Laura has experience working with individuals and families from a variety of backgrounds.

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She has specialized in working with children with special needs, individuals facing chronic medical and mental health issues and end of life care.

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Outside of the office, Laura enjoys spending time with her family and being outside

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Katie’s therapy style is relationship oriented and insight focused. She enjoys group work and believes group therapy can be a highly effective change agent.

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Katie specializes in working with adolescents who are in need of a high level services. She is a member of the Association for Specialists in Group Work and has experience working with people who struggle with depression, anxiety, social skills, trauma, self-harm, and suicidal ideation.

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Katie enjoys being outdoors, spending time with family, jogging, yoga, and cooking. She loves animals and has two adorable cats who she loves to hang out with.

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Hal’s foundation for therapeutic approach is rooted in Rogerian Person Centered therapy, linked with a wide variety of approaches to best fir the client’s need or needs. He believes positive therapeutic change is client driven and is best achieved through cooperative efforts between the client, therapist, family members, and other service providers.

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As a licensed school counselor and therapist, Hal has worked in elementary, middle, and high school, as well as, alternative learning centers. For the past 2 years, he has worked in a federal level IV school setting with students struggling through emotional and behavioral issues in grades 6-12.

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Outside of work, Hal enjoys spending time with his wife, daughter, son, and their dog, Chester. He loves camping, fishing, gardening, and watching his kids participate in gymnastics and basketball.

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Kayla utilizes a person-centered, cognitive behavioral approach with focuses on relationship-oriented, trauma-informed, and mindfulness-based techniques. Often with the use of expressive arts, play, and narrative modalities.

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Kayla enjoys working with elementary-middle school aged children in a school or clinic setting. Her clinical interests include depression, anxiety, trauma, ADHD, ASD, grief, transitions, and support groups.

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In her free time, Kayla enjoys drawing, painting, dancing, cooking, yoga, going for walks around the lake, and being in nature.

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Marissa's clinical approach is person-centered, relationship-oriented, and trauma-informed. She believes in the importance of meeting her clients and their support systems where they are at and the power of building a safe, trusting, and healthy relationship as a vehicle to healing. She integrates cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and mindfulness techniques into her therapeutic work.

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Jackie uses a holistic approach that is person-centered, trauma and culturally informed, utilizing strength-based skills, humor and creativity, and relational emphasis to meet clients in the moment.

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Brittani enjoys walks with her two dogs, krav maga, reading, and being outdoors.

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Keng's clinical approach is strengths-based, narrative, and solution-focused.

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Melissa's clinical approach is strengths-based talk therapy drawing from CBT and the interpersonal relationship.

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