Inspiring Change LLC

Helping people improve their most important relationships.

Couples Counseling

With all the arguing, are you at the end of your emotional rope? Does your relationship feel hopelessly disconnected? Perhaps you have just discovered your partner's affair. Or you've started to wonder if you'd be better off alone.

There is help: confidential, compassionate, professional therapy.

Couples counseling is a form of psychotherapy that works with both partners at once to help you renew your relationship. The emotional patterns and behaviors that have worn away your happiness can be better understood and reshaped. It's challenging but essential emotional work. Some people lack the desire, resources or patience necessary to rebuild their partnership with therapy. But many others experience significant change, enjoying a renewed and more intimate relationship.

Marriage repair is one reason couples come for counseling. Others, experiencing some particular stress, seek a professional to help guide them through. Extended family relationships, remarriage and blended family issues, sexual issues, chronic illness, living in recovery from addictions, premarital counseling and parenting struggles are common issues I see in my practice.

As a marriage and family therapist, family relationships are my specialty. Whatever your reason for seeking counseling, I'll take the time to get to know you, your partner and your family system. I'll help you work toward your own goals for therapy, and constantly seek to build on your strengths with care, humor and integrity. 

Family Therapy

Families are amazingly flexible emotional systems, able to adjust to great joy and extraordinary suffering. But sometimes even this resilience may benefit from professional support. 

Families who are adjusting to significant change, especially newly blended/remarried families, those experiencing the sudden death of a loved one, or those with painful parent/child relationships, may find it healing to see a therapist for coaching and encouragement. 

I can see the whole family or some particular combination of relationships. Together, we will look at how your particular emotional system functions, what's not working, and what ideas and options exist to help each person in the family feel more at ease.

Individual Therapy

I see individual clients, adolescents to seniors, who hope to improve their emotional functioning. Other clients want professional support as they make important decisions about work, education, faith or family. Some seek help with troubling memories, or assistance understanding their own behavior, thinking or choices.

Whatever your individual concern, I will take time to understand you and the way you approach the world. I practice from a systems perspective, gathering information about your family of origin, close relationships, life decisions, core values and personal resources. From there, we'll craft strategies for healing and growth.

Persons seeking a confidential, compassionate and respectful place to explore issues of sexual orientation (GLB) or gender or sexual identity (TQI) are welcome in my practice.

With professional training in both theology and mental health, I enjoy helping clients better utilize the resources of their own spirituality to create and support personal change. 

Appointments

I see clients at my private office at The Summit Executive Offices building, 1500 McAndrews Rd. W, Burnsville, Minnesota. The Summit is at the intersection of Irving Ave. S and McAndrews Rd. W in western Burnsville, near the Burnsville Center Mall. The building is handicapped accessible and has plenty of parking.

Sessions are by appointment only. I see clients Mondays - Thursdays, daytime and some evenings.

I accept cash, check, and debit/credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express) for my professional services. I'm an Out-of-Network Provider for most major health insurance companies.

How to Contact Me

My office phone is 612-735-2229. Confidential voice mail can be left for me 24 hours a day, and I'll return your call as soon as possible, usually by my next business day. I invite you to call me and we can discuss how therapy can be a help to you.

If you or a loved one is experiencing an overwhelming emotional crisis, please contact your county's Mental Health Crisis Team; the Crisis Connection: 612-379-6363; or call for 911 for immediate help.

Marriage, Family & Individual Counseling    -     Burnsville, Minnesota