THERAPY REFERRALS
"Here are my top, favorite people and places — in no particular order.”
These referrals are best suited for different needs — grief and loss, truama, marriage, postpartum, infertility. And I’ve noted what they are passionate about as well as any first-hand experience they have. Read them over, check out their locations and websites and hopefully you’ll find a fit you’ll love!
Mental Health Crisis in MN
Urgent Mental Health RX Needs
National Suicide Prevention
Postpartum Mental Health
Trisha Falvey
I know Trisha through the fertility community and she is a passionate and open-minded collaborator in helping women and couples get stronger through a difficult process. She is a lovely woman and very holistic. She sees a lot of couples and does LGBT work too.
1st Hand Experience - LGBTQ, IVF, 3rd party IVF
Katrin Christensen-Cowan
Katrin is a fantastic human being and is especially skilled, compassionate and passionate about working with grief and loss. Katrin is also a workshop leader, yoga practitioner and has her own absolutely amazing fertility journey. Her husband Dan works at the same office and sees mostly men which can be a great fit for male partners.
1st Hand Experience - Infant loss, fertility struggles, adoption, pregnancy after loss / infertility
Abbie Diehl
Abbie is a delightful human being and I’m proud to say I know her well because I had the joy of being a part of her team. I can 100% attest that Abbie is all about the big picture and whole person and that she absolutely walks the walk. In addition to her training as a social worker and first-hand fertility experience, Abbie has also completed the official mind-body fertility training program through the renown Domar Mind Body Institute. Abbie also speaks Spanish and is committed to serving social justice and bringing an anti-racist lens to her practice.
1st Hand Experience - IUI and IVF
Trauma - Accelerated Reprocessing Therapy (ART) provider
Jena Garee
Jena was brought to my attention by a fabulous patient and I have since “witnessed” other patients work with and really love the work Jena does - especially Internal Family Systems Therapy. Jena also does visits for those considering 3rd party ART options through CCRM and is well versed in fertility, grief and trauma. She uses a holistic mind/body approach and as I’ve continued to hear more about Jena via patients has become very clear she is a skilled and compassionate therapist. I’m excited to officially add her to this list and encourage LHL patients to check her out.
Trauma - Internal Family Systems (IFS) provider
Psychotherapy and Healing Associates
Multiple Locations
This is a fairly large group of therapists working together that specializes in mostly pregnancy / postpartum work as well as a fair amount of fertility work. Krista Post (the owner/founder) is one of the founders of the MN Post Partum Support Network and is passionate of post partum anxiety and depression awareness and services!
note! This team does infertility work too. Please be aware that if you are seen in-office there is the chance there will be infants and triggers from crying, etc. possible. Virtual visits might be a better option.
1st Hand Experience - Varies! Krista Post - Donor egg IVF, parenting multiples
Trauma - Various Providers offer EMDR, ART, and IFS Therapy
LynLake Therapy
This is a clinic that is typically fairly easy to get into (with insurance)! Katie Murray, Aly Webster, Rob Baker, Anna Morgan, Karen Byrd and Helena LaFave are some of the providers who offer trauma specific modalities, but there are likely more! They have many locations as well as offer telehealth visits.
Trauma - Various Providers offer EMDR, ART, and IFS Therapy
Pregnancy and Postpartum Support MN
Varies and Over the Phone
This is a volunteer run organization that focuses on pregnancy and post partum mental health and advocacy with a special focus on time sensitive postpartum and pregnancy mental health needs. If you are feeling overwhelmed and need to talk to someone don’t hesitate to reach out to their Helpline (call, text, email). See also the walk-in urgent mental health clinic listed below. They also have a list of providers who are interested and experienced in these stages of life on their website for less time sensitive needs.
Center for Grief, Loss and Transition
St. Paul
This group of therapists can be a very good fit for a lot of the work we do together at Life Healing Life. Grief and loss is a key emotional facet of fertility struggles, and the very situational nature of depression, anxiety, PTSD, etc that come with the turf are well-matched for the approach taken at a grief and loss focused clinic. They also host group sessions for loss of parents, partners, trauma, suicide, and art based grief therapy.
Laura Rademacher
Laura is the amazing marriage and sex therapist who has taught at my Sexy Back events. I love her and her work. She’s spoken all over the world and has even written the book (literally) on female pleasure. She is a wealth of body and sex positive knowledge and is worth seeing if you are struggling with libido, pleasure, connection, body changes, and so many other intersections of sex and life. You’ll love her. She makes what can be a scary topic into an empowering and healthy way to work on your big picture.
Resilient Intimacy
South Minneapolis
I’ve known Kori for many years and I know she has a passion for openhearted therapy, especially at the intersections of trauma and sexual wellness/intimacy. Offering both individual and couples options this clinic is non-judgmental and committed to serving through education, evidence-based trauma therapies and ultimately finding what works for you and your unique needs.
Trauma - Kori offers Eye Movement Desensitization (EMDR) Therapy
SkyHill and Cedar Hill Therapy
Edina - SkyHill and Cedar Hill
Maple Grove - Cedar Hill Only
These clinics have fantastic groups of therapists who really make it their business to know all things sex, relationship and sex, and body and sex. Laura Rademacher started here and has since branched out on her own. I have met the owners and done workshops with them and know they are also really great. They are especially well-suited for body and sex questions (libido, vaginal atrophy, sex while sober, sex after baby, etc) because they have a nurse on site who can do exams and answer sensitive sexual / physical questions about changes in vaginal tissue post menopause, with cancer treatments, etc, as well as therapists who do both individual and couples sessions. SkyHill is the cash / no insurance clinic. Cedar Hill is the insurance-based clinic. They also host workshops for professionals and laypeople on sex and relationship topics.
The Luminous Mind
Roseville
The Luminous Mind is a diverse group of providers at a social justice minded clinic. They focus on culturally appropriate, decolonized, strengths-based mental health. Although I am not aware of any providers at this clinic who specialize in infertility, they certainly have a lot of great therapy skills and experience in general! I admire this clinic’s commitment to making sure therapy is accessible to all. From their sliding scale options, to taking many insurances, to working with Medical Assistance they see many patients who would otherwise have a hard time affording out-of-pocket mental health care. They also can usually get people started quickly without long wait times. Their therapists are skilled, compassionate, and varied in their main modalities (CBT, EMDR, Mindfulness based, etc).
Trauma - Various Providers offer EMDR
Walk-In Urgent Mental Health Needs
Minneapolis
If you cannot wait to get into the above providers and are feeling overwhelmed by your mental health needs, please consider calling a hotline listed at the top of this page or using one of these two walk-in clinics. These providers will not give ongoing care, but can help you through acute crises and the first can prescribe medications when need be. Do not hesitate to call 911, or use the national suicide prevention hotline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
"Here are some additional suggestions that I know less about, but either recently met or have been highly recommended by others."
Mindful Families / Alison Peterson
Edina
These women are especially focused on postpartum mommas (all but one has struggled with either postpartum anxiety or depression) as well as kiddos. As their name implies they are very mindfulness-based, and I recently had the chance to meet Alison (founder) and found her very professional and lovely. They do Mindful Mondays for Mom drop-in groups, workshops about various parenting subjects and more. Check them out and let me know what you think!
Mark Halley
Minneapolis - Uptown
Emily or Colin Hollidge
Eagan
They are both very holistic and do a lot of yoga and other holistic care. I don't know what portion of their practice is couples, but I do know they see some.
Jennifer Leopold
Minneapolis
Jennifer sees couples and is skilled with clients who have experienced trauma. I think she now does walk / talk therapy so you might love getting out in nature.
Nancy Mulvey
St. Paul
Very experienced. She shares office space with another therapist named Thomas Wales with whom she collaborates. Sometimes they will each see a client individually from the same family and then do joint sessions together.
Georgianna Lewis
Minneapolis
Mindfulness and writing-based therapy.