Post-Adoption Counseling

Rebecca has specialized training in perinatal mental health and focuses on attachment theory and Circle of Security Parenting in helping new parents grow and create the life they desire. She uses a trauma-informed approach to sensitively work with individuals impacted by postpartum depression and anxiety, unexpected perinatal outcomes, intrusive thoughts, bipolar disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. As an adoptive parent, Rebecca is passionate about adoption and adoption advocacy.

I am a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) currently practicing as a Clinical Services Manager at Fraser’s collaboration with Minneapolis Public Schools. I manage two day treatment classrooms, supervise staff and maintain an outpatient caseload. Fraser is one of the largest providers for mental health services in Minnesota (children and adults) and recently became a CCBHC (Certified Community Behavior Health Clinic).

I am dedicated to working with individuals and families by supporting hope and growth through a family systems perspective and trauma informed care. As a counselor, I focus on wellness and what we can do to help you feel hopeful as we begin to change your story. My work stems from an attachment, developmental, and systems lens and how they impact functioning throughout one’s life. I find encouragement in working together to build from your personal strengths and resilience to help you heal and feel more connected to your environment and relationships.

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.

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.

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

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

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).

Amy Hagstrom, PsyD, LP has over 15 years of experience working with children, families and adults around issues of trauma. Her specialties include psychological assessment, play therapy, and EEG biofeedback/neurofeedback. She works with preschool and school age children as as foster, adoptive and biological families, especially with children in transition. She has experience supervising an adolescent sexual abuse program for survivors and perpetrators of sexual abuse. She currently is in private practice in Edina and at Northland Counseling Chaska.

Meagan Galbari, MA, LPCC has been working with children and families for over 25 years in a variety of settings including psychiatric hospitals, day-treatment programs, domestic violence refuges, residential treatment centers and in private adoption agencies.  Meagan’s passion is in adoption and foster care and supporting children and families through their journey.  Meagan is committed to assisting parents through the lifelong process of adoption and empowering them with the tools to help children heal while maintaining healthy families.