Your First Appointment: 

You will receive a link to my secure client portal with forms to complete prior to your first scheduled appointment. 

The first session is referred to as a Clinical Interview or Diagnostic Assessment. During this meeting, we will thoroughly assess and explore your presenting concerns and gather relevant background information about your family, social, occupational, health, and trauma history. 

*Masks, physical distancing, enhanced cleaning measures, and/or telehealth options are utilized to mitigate the risks during a public health crisis.

Goal-Setting: 

The first few therapy sessions after the Clinical Interview are centered on understanding you better and establishing achievable goals for therapy. Collaboration is key! Together, we will focus in on the main problem areas in your life by first discovering unhealthy patterns and distressing experiences, and then identifying the best avenues for addressing them. 

We'll choose the most effective treatment approaches and interventions to reduce your symptoms and resolve your problems. Feeling and seeing results in your daily life is vital to your therapeutic journey.

Psychotherapy Sessions:

Therapy is about gaining insight into the origins of our concerns, understanding unhealthy life patterns, resolving trauma, grief, and other painful feelings that are holding us back, and identifying solutions to current problems. 

The goal of therapy is to get out of therapy! I aim to create a compassionate, nonjudgmental, collaborative space where you will feel supported to make lasting changes in your life.  

Telehealth appointments are offered using a confidential video conferencing platform. Individuals may choose telehealth for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to, until the risk of COVID-19 has sufficiently reduced, not yet being fully vaccinated, distance (you may be located outside of the Mankato, MN area), scheduling convenience, and other reasons.