Twin Cities - Metro

Ashley Krause, LMFT

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Biography

My name is Ashley Krause. I am a Licensed Marriage and family Therapist at an outpatient clinic setting. I currently see and focus on transracial adoptees: kids, teens and adults.

Address:
Watercourse Counseling Center
3548 Bryant Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55446

Ashley Krause

Julie Jong Koch, MSW, LICSW

Biography

Julie Jong Koch, MSW, LICSW, is a licensed independent clinical social worker and psychotherapist at Watercourse Counseling Center in Minneapolis. She specializes in working with transracial adoptees, POCI (People of color/Indigenous people), queer & trans individuals, as well as others who have experienced individual or community trauma or marginalization. She integrates her professional training and therapeutic skills with her lived experience as a queer-identified Korean adoptee.

Julie Jong Koch

Gayle Kittleson

Biography

Address:
Ramsey County
160 E. Kellogg Blvd #7000
Saint Paul, MN 55101

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Lauren Boelter, MSW, LICSW

Biography

My name is Lauren Boelter and I have been working in the mental health field for over 10 years. I mostly work with kids and family birth through age 5. I graduated from the TAC program in 2016 and currently focus on support young children and families that have experienced stressful events.

Address:
Fraser
3333 University Ave SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414

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Joanna Kelly, LMFT, RPT

Biography

I founded my practice with a passion to provide the best possible services to individuals and families who have been touched by adoption in some way. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family therapist, which means I value the role that relationships play in mental health functioning and healing. I include family work as a routine part of the therapy process. As an adoptive parent, I am sensitive to the unique needs that adoption presents. I work from an attachment perspective, meaning that healing can often be found through enhancing relationships and security.

Joanna Kelly

Suzanne Johnson

Biography

Address:
Johnson Counseling Services
8100 Penn Avenue South
Suite 151
Bloomington, MN 55431

Suzanne Johnson

Hanah Jesz, MA, LMFT

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Biography

I provide therapy working with minorities including BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities including adolescents, young adults, and adoptive families. I specialize in brainspotting, exposure and response prevention, and play therapy when working with anxiety, depression, trauma, OCD, and ADHD. In addition, I use a compassionate lens to create more understanding for these parts of ourselves.

Address:
Jesz Therapy LLC
731 Bielenberg Dr
Ste 108
Woodbury, MN 55125

Hanah Jesz

Brandon Jensen, MS, LMFT-S, PACC

Biography

Brandon is committed to the restoration and improvement of familial relationships and committed to generational change in families. Brandon feels very strongly about working with individuals and families whatever their current situation may be and working with them to establish positive changes that will positively affect generations to come in their families.

Brandon Jensen

Talicia Jackson

Biography

I work with youth in foster care ages 14-24 years of age providing after-care services. We individualize our services by meeting youth where they are at. We do this by developing a plan that encompasses a youth’s dreams, goals, and aspirations for their life during and after foster care.

Address:
Connections to Independence
310 East 38th Street
Suite 300
Minneapolis, MN 55409

Talicia Jackson

Neree Jackson, MS - Organizational Leadership

Biography

Neree's home is filled with biological, adopted and foster children. She has worked in various areas of child development and child welfare for more than 20 years, and mentors former foster youth on their own parenting journeys. She currently works in child welfare transformation, shifting system thinking about trauma, worthiness, race, and wellbeing while supporting agencies to find and/or maintain permanency for youth under their jurisdiction.

Neree Jackson