School-based Mental Health

Leslie Allred, LICSW, is the Director of Social Emotional Wellness at St. Paul City School, where she leads the development and implementation of a multi-tiered system of supports to ensure equitable access to whole-child services for students and families. She provides clinical licensure supervision for School Social Workers and delivers training and coaching to district educators on social-emotional wellness practices, trauma-informed education, and mental health.

Rachel has been providing services in the local area since 2022. She received her master's in art therapy and counseling from Southwestern College and New Earth Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She enjoys working with a broad age range of clients, often finding herself working with many adolescents. Rachel helps her clients by recognizing and valuing their uniqueness, understanding how ideas affect their emotions, assisting in transforming unhealthy behaviors, and providing a secure, trusting environment conducive to healing, self-acceptance, and self-love.

My vocational calling is to support the psychological and spiritual well-being of children, adolescents, and adults within adoptive, foster, and kinship family systems. My specialties involve working with individuals navigating adoption- and foster-related transitions, grief and loss, identity development, early and complex trauma, and attachment disruptions, as well as developmental differences and relational challenges. I approach this work with an understanding of how these experiences unfold across the lifespan and within the context of family and relational systems.

Individual therapy for adolescents and adults

Nesting Connections, LLC provides attachment-based, trauma informed, play focused therapeutic services for ages 0-18 as well as support for caregivers and educators. Additional information can be found at www.nestingconnections.com

Address:
Nesting Connections, LLC
14051 Burnhaven Drive
Suite 111
Burnsville, MN, MN 55337

I primarily work with birth to age 18 children and families through the School Linked Mental Health program in Southwest Minnesota. I provide therapy through a variety of methods with the most commonly utilized treatments being TI-CPP, EMDR, CBT, and IFS.

Address:
Greater Minnesota Family Services
2320 E Hwy 12 Ste 2
Willmar, MN 56101

Hello! I work at the Wilder Foundation as a school-based therapist working within the Therapeutic Teaching Model program, a collaboration with Intermediate School District 287 and Wilder. My work is focused in a federal setting IV classroom with elementary students, individual and within a group setting, that have a variety of disruptions, including but not limited to; behavioral challenges, educational trauma, home life instability, attachment and/or developmental difficulties, family trauma, and out of home placements or adoption.

I focus on child populations and specialize in areas of Autism Spectrum Disorder and youth in foster care.

Address:
The Village
815 37th Ave S 
Suite 100
Moorhead, MN 56560

Holly provides individual and family therapy in Elementary Schools to children and family. Within her previous positions in Day Treatment and In-Home services Holly has experience working with individuals and families who are in foster care, have been adopted, and have experienced trauma. Holly is also trained in providing DC 0-5 assessments for children birth to five years old. She believes that the best outcomes happen when the whole family is engaged in services.

Address:
Therapeutic Services Agency
202 Railroad St SE
Pine City, MN 55063