Adoptive Parents

Anna Clavin, MA, LMFT, IECMH-E

Biography

I am dedicated to working with individuals, couples, and families by supporting hope and growth through a family systems perspective and trauma informed care. My passion is attachment, relationships, and development and their impact on functioning throughout one’s life. I find encouragement in my work through helping others find hope, strength, and healing within their environment and relationships. I am also trained in Theraplay, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), and Circle of Security-Parenting.

Anna Clavin

Holly Clark, MSW, LICSW

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Biography

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

Holly Clark

Ashley Chase, MSW

She/Her/Hers
Biography

I am a permanency social worker for St. Louis County. My current caseload includes kinship, adoption, guardianship and extended foster care. I also am a back-up petition writer. Prior to switching to this role in August of 2023, I did ongoing case management in child protection for 6.5 years.

Address:
St. Louis County
1814 14th Ave E
Hibbing, MN 55746

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Kathleen Chara, PhD, RPT-S, LPCC

She/Her/Hers
Biography

Heart to Heart Child and Family Center for Counseling, LLC is unlike any other clinic, because we offer a specialty team for families that meets the needs of each individual within the family unit. Our passion is to strengthen families to achieve their highest potential. With great professionalism, care, and experience, Dr. Kathleen and her team will work tirelessly for you and your family. As a parent and a professional, Dr. Kathleen and her team brings a heart for the success of every family to her work.

Kathleen Chara

Heather Cargill, PsyD, LP

Biography

Following 22 years in the field as a licensed child psychologist, and 17 years in private practice, I am no longer providing direct care as an adoption-competent therapist. For my "second chapter", I am eager to join the team of HELP Specialists at Foster Adopt MN (FAM) in January, 2026. The HELP Program provides free, curated support services to any Minnesota adoptive, kinship or foster family; adopted persons, former foster youth and community professionals. 

Heather Cargill

Miranda Barker, LICSW, LCSW

She/Her/Hers
Biography

I’m a therapist who specializes in working with individuals going through life transitions (becoming parent, job changes, graduating college) and families touched by adoption, including birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees. I bring experience from both the clinical side and the child welfare world, and I love helping people of all ages feel seen and supported. I am an adoptive parent myself and with adoption in my family of origin.

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Tiffany Bobendrier, MA, LPC

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Biography

Tiffany Bobendrier believes that humans are made to thrive in healthy relationships. With a focus on attachment, she sincerely desires that her clients feel safe, seen and secure while they take the courageous steps needed towards growth in their personal lives.

Tiffany Bobendrier

Danielle Biederman

She/Her/Hers
Biography

Permanency Worker- focusing on adoptions, transfer of permanency and legal custody (TPLPC), adoption disruptions/dissolutions, and statewards.

Address:
Olmsted County Health Housing and Human Services
2117 Campus Drive SE
Rochester, MN 55904

Danielle Biederman

Sarah Bello, MSW, LISW

Biography

Sarah Bello, MSW, LISW has been in the field of social work since 2009, drawn into the work through her own lived experience.

Sarah Bello

Wendy L. Baker, MSW, LICSW

Biography

Wendy L. Baker, MSW, LICSW is co-founder of Family Circle Counseling, in St. Paul, MN. A family focused group practice with particular dedication to adoptive and foster care families and their unique and potentially intensive therapeutic needs. Wendy has over 40 years of therapeutic experience working with high needs children, teens, families and individuals of all ages with specialization in clinical work with trauma survivors who deal with issues surrounding childhood neglect, physical & sexual abuse and attachment traumas/disruptions.

Wendy L. Baker