Children

Teresa Halmar, MA, LPCC

Biography

Clinician is an intensive treatment in foster care therapist spending part of time with foster families and part of time in office with children, teens, and adults. Clinician engages with a variety of issues including some specialization in the areas of adoption, trauma, TF-CBT, ARC, and ADHD.

Address:
Ellie Mental Health
652 Bielenberg Drive
Woodbury, MN 55125

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Amber Haley-Grant, LPCC

She/Her/Hers
Biography

The focus of my practice is working with children 1-18 years of age in foster care or that have been adopted and/or trauma focused treatment with children and their families. I am trained in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), the ARC model (Attachment, Regulation and Competency), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), sand tray therapy and Polyvagal theory and am currently in training for Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP).

Amber Haley-Grant

Tarah Groettum, MSEd, LPCC

Biography

Tarah Groettum holds a Master of Science in Education (MSEd), with a clinical counseling focus. As a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), Certified Autism Specialist (CAS), Permanency and Adoption Competency Certified (PACC), and Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP), Tarah brings a wealth of specialized training to her practice. She is also fully trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).

Tarah Groettum

Christina Goodman, MA, LMFT

She/Her/Hers
Biography

Christina enjoys providing psychotherapy to children, adolescents, adults and families. She has special training in assessing and treating Children Birth to 5 years, and working with Children/adolescents who have experienced Complex Trauma.

Christina Goodman

Kristin Gonzalez, LICSW

She/Her/Hers
Biography

Kristin is a licensed clinical therapist trained in Child Parent Psychotherapy. She has been a foster and adoptive momma for 20 years and is intimately familiar with the ins and outs of transracial adoption.

Address:
Washburn Center for Children
1100 Glenwood Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55101

Kristin Gonzalez

Devon Gilchrist, MSW

Biography

I have 15 years of child welfare experience working as an Independent Living Skills Counselor with youth in long-term foster care, a child protection social worker, a child crisis social worker and a therapist. I am currently a Human Service Program Consultant at the MN Department of Human Services where I provide foster care policy technical assistance to MN County and tribal child welfare agencies.

Address:
Minnesota Department of Human Services
444 Lafayette Rd. N
Saint Paul, MN 55155

Devon Gilchrist

Andrea Fuerstenberg

She/Her/Hers
Biography

I am a county agency case worker specializing in child protection. I work with families through family assessments and investigations, child protection case management and the Parent Support Outreach Program.

Address:
Southwest Health and Human Services
607 W. Main St.
Suite 100
Marshall, MN 56258

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Nicole Frank

She/Her/Hers
Biography

County work in CP, permanency, licensing and relative work. Always learning and changing to do what is most helpful for the children in our communities.

Address:
Stevens County Human Services
400 Colorado Ave
Suite 104
Morris, MN 56267

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Amelia Franck Meyer, LISW

She/Her/Hers
Biography

Amelia is the Founder and Executive Officer of the national non-profit, Alia. Amelia and Team Alia are UnSysteming the child welfare system and shifting mindsets and practice to keep children safely with, not from, their families. Alia employs a community co-design approach, working alongside parents with lived expertise and innovative systems leaders as partners to co-create new solutions to longstanding problems, while supporting the wellbeing of leaders, teams, and caregivers.

Amelia Franck Meyer

Laura Filzen, MSW

She/Her/Hers
Biography

Adoption and Permanency Social worker for a MN county.

Address:
Brown County Human Services
1117 Center Street
New Ulm, MN 56073

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